What I like about the bike is it can tour like a Gold Wing, but cruise like a Harley. This is a lot of power for a touring bike and the bike tops out at 135 MPH!!! The Engine in the V-Max makes 145 HP at the crank, in the Venture it maked 98 HP and 89 FPT. Yamaha stopped production of the Venture Royale in 1989 but brought it back as the Yamaha Venture in 1999.
Later the folks at Yamaha thought it was too nice an engine to waste on a touring bike so they added V-Boost and put it in the V-Max in 1985. The 4 cylinder V Engine Porsche designed was later sold to Yamaha who put it in their 1983 Venture Royale Touring bike. Porsche later designed the twin cylinder V-Rod for Harley and it has mixed reviews from the Harley Faithful. What You don't know is that the Engine was designed by Porsche for Harley Davidson!!! Harley passed on it because they were afraid the Harley faithful would not go for the 4 cylinder. I love the look and especially the dash which looks like a 1955 corvette dash. Yamaha obviously borrowed some styling cues from the Harley Davidson Classic and made just enough changes to make it unique. I first saw it in a motorcycle magazine and thought it was beautiful. I have owned this bike since 1999 and have the silver and gold model. Yamaha build quality is outstanding - period!īefore you consider a Harley Road King, Kawasaki Voyager and/or Nomad, Goldwing, Suzuki C109 strongly consider the XVZ new or used. Remember this is a long distance tourer and not a sports bike. I find it is easy to handle at low speeds and fast in straights. Remember this is a big and heavy bike but for my 6'4 115 kilo frame is perfect. Sounds much better than a V twin.Ĭomfort is excellent, performance is exceptional for a BIG bike and economy/range is good when not pushed. Mine has slip on BUB exhausts and sounds amazing. That really got me interested.įast forward I did my research and opted for a low km one owner CT version in pearl white. The smaller capacity turned me off until I discovered it was a V4. I stumbled in my research across the XVZ 1300. I narrowed it down to the Honda VTX 1800, Suzuki C109 and Kawasaki VN 2000.Īll big powerful cruisers but not quite right. When looking to replace my Kawasaki VN1500 Nomad I looked long and hard at all types of big cruisers (didn't consider Harley as they are too overpriced for me).
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