|
|
Tourer
Posts: 430
| when i use my cruise control a i can feel the throttle rotating under my hand for example when going up a grade. |
|
| |
|
Visionary
Posts: 1365
Central Maryland | Yep...supposed to do that. Pretty cool |
|
| |
|
Tourer
Posts: 573
Central Illinois | Glad to hear that it is not a product defect on a 5 years old bike. The HD that I ride is a "fly by wire" type so anything that I feel is intentional design by HD, since there is no direct connection between the hand throttle and the fuel injection system. That means that if they want me to feel the cruise disengage, they would need to build in that sensation. If not, I will never feel it, which is exactly my experience. When I rode my Yamaha all of the time, I never used a roll off to disengage the cruise because it took a lot of effort to make that approach work. Basically I had to hold in the roll off position for several seconds or the cruise would resume control of the throttle. With the HD I have become very accustomed to using a roll off to cancel a cruise setting since it is almost instantaneous. If I need to re-learn using other controls, that is not a big deal for me. I just wanted to be sure that I was not seeing a failure in that used bike. |
|
| |
|
Cruiser
Posts: 155
Stockton, California | rdbudd - 2013-03-08 8:17 PM The Vision's pillion is higher than the driver, but that's one of the things that my wife likes so well about it. She can see over me instead of looking at the back of my helmet. That's a plus in her book. So is the power windshield which can be lowered on the fly for more air in hot weather and raised on the fly for more protection from cold or rain. That's one of her favorite features. +1. After our test ride my wife got off the bike and said "I want this one" Her and I are both 5'11" and two problems she wanted fixed was to be able to see the road and to stop the bobble heading. Since the rider seat is lower she can see right over my head so she has an unobstructed view. (no more leaning to the side to see) When I ride alone I usually keep the windshield in the lowest position. When she rides I raise it to just below my nose and the wind goes right over her head. We test rode the BMW K1200LT and the Vision on the same day and came home with the Vision. Have not regretted the choice since. |
|
| |
|
Tourer
Posts: 573
Central Illinois | OK so today I return with news.
Last week I hoped to get momma on a Vision for a test ride. She woke up Thursday morning with enough back pain that the paramedics came to my home to lift her off the toilet and transport her to the local emergency room. So much for my Friday test ride. When Friday came, I was to take the dogs to the groomer because momma was just not up to it although she was able to move around a bit. They are really her dogs, not mine. I tried to take the dogs in but one lost his balance trying to jump into the car and fell backward with a hind foot caught under the seat. Picture a dog laying on his back on the driveway with his hind foot caught under the car seat. I could see he was in pain so I tried to pick him up so that he could free his leg, this is a 60 pound dog folks. Well to make a long story short, he was panicking and in pain and grabbed the first thing he saw, my left hand. Now the tale gets worse, I felt him chewing my hand so I reached out to pry his jaw off of it and he darned near took the tip off my ring finger on the other hand. Needless to say there was no test ride that day. I spent the day getting stitched up in the emergency room instead.
Fast forward to today my wife feels her back is not in such bad shape and the doctor has grudgingly given me a clean bill of health for my hand, even though it is not yet time to remove the stitches. It is also a 55F day locally, so not bad riding weather compared to some of the temperatures we ride in. It was time to take momma for a test ride. I arrived at my Vic dealer and my wife immediately told me the Vision was just too tall for her to mount the pillion seat. So much for that. I decided to test drive a CCT, which I had never even tried before. I came back unconvinced but willing to let her try it out. A short test ride and she had very mixed feelings. The bike was definitely short enough for her to mount easily but the seat was a bit too hard and she felt vibrations up her back whenever I accelerated at all. She also felt the backrest on the trunk and the seat itself were a bit too hard for her liking. I was not about to give up the Vision that I had so enjoyed when I rode it solo so I told her to do her best and get on it for me. She did and admitted that it was not so bad after all when we had gone about a mile and were at a stop light. We rode a few more miles of twisties and interstate and returned to the dealer. When I questioned her on our return she told me that after her trouble mounting she had been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the ride itself. She has since said that she much prefers the Vision to the CCT, just as I did, so she is ready for me to start the deal making process with that local dealer.
Give me a few weeks to find the color that I want and a decent deal and I will be a Vision owner, with a full sign off from home. |
|
| |
|
Cruiser
Posts: 251
Mechanicsville, VA United States | I think you won't be sorry, I love mine(08), never thought I would ever ride one much less buy one I hated the look back in 07 and was losing interest in Victory all together because of the look of the Vision, now I think is it beautiful and so does my wife, we both hated it.....funny how your
mind changes after looking at something you thought was so ugly. I really believe beauty is skin deep......so to explain, I have never ridden a bike
that handles any better then my Vision, comfort,I have ridden 575 miles (one day ride) with my wife on the back, gotten home and gotten on my riding mower and cut the grass all in the same day and still wasn't beat up. I'm 6'4" 238lbs. and wife is 5' 130lbs.(alittle lie here) ....she can see over me and she likes that... she loves the seat and the fact it's heated(me too)...I owed an 03 Venture and thought it was great but I had back problems the whole time I owed it, it was heavy as hell but handled ok, had good power and was smooth to ride but it feel like a 60 ton truck, not the Vision this thing is very balanced and powerful, way better brakes too...like I said I don't think you will be sorry but only if you don't get one! Good Luck! |
|
| |
|
Cruiser
Posts: 196
| Told ya so! ROFLOL!  |
|
| |
First trial ride tomorrow
