Brammo Owners Forum

Hey, nice to be missed...just haven't been doing as much on the Brammoblog front...work is busy, got some grandkids to play with....taking some college classes to keep my quickly "dulling and dimming" brain from fading too fast.
Plus with Brammo selling the Empulse to Victory, I figured I'd let somebody younger start up a VictoryTT blog.

At 13,000 miles now, but the bike is in the shop as a Ram1500 didn't look my way from her stop sign and took me out. I was basically stopped as I watched her not looking my way and stopped instead ofgoing in front of her and being run right over. Sadly she still didn't see me stopped as she turned into me and caught me with her driver's side door. Slow motion wreck (me stopped, her coming out of stop sign), so minimal damage to me and bike (me: bruised knee and sore shoulder. Bike: bent handlebar, broken clutch, scraps and such to body work).

Sadly this was right before the holidays, so the insurance people haven't been out to see the bike and "approve" repairs...and won't be out till next week. Sigh...so it will be 3 or 4 weeks without my bike.

I will look and see what I could put up on brammoblog (day of the dead parade, rides about town), but mostly I just feel I am too old an boring and tend to do the same rides (though the rides are beautiful)

Take care....

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http://www.iomtt.com/~/media/Files/2015/Race-results/SES-TT-Zero/Zero%20resulT.pdf

The Mugen bikes where very similar at 118-119.

The Victory were also very similar around 110.

I wonder if Victory will race again next year? Would be fun if both companies (and perhaps another one or two) can try and break 120 in a years time.

Great show by Mugen, excellent show for Victory on their first time out (though Brammo has been racing for a while now).

So....the question....if Victory brings out a commercial sports bike somewhat based on this bike, will Honda feel it is time to bring out a competitor based on the Mugen?

That would be cool to have them both come out over the next year.

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Hmmm, looking like 110 will work...the Friday afternoon ride is usually about 60 miles round trip, but this year it looks like the ride is to Fenton Lake...so only 20 miles or so...even from near empty (the ride out is approx 80 miles, some at highway speed) a couple of hours charging will be enough...then I can charge overnight as the saturday ride is usually a long loop around and through Los Alamos (we go up over 9000 feet on that ride with fun twisties)...

It will be fine with the standard plug...but one day I should get a 220 set up...maybe when I get my Bolt or lll and finally get a car again (the last time I bought a car was 1999...though I did end up getting a used pickup when I had the Enertia for taking trips...sooner or later I need to be a responsible adult and get a car
it's been over 10 years since I gave my car to my daughter, got my scooter and been on 2 wheels everyday since then...I am actually getting a bit older, and the cage drivers a bit crazier...I give my everyday riding a couple of more years and then see me joining the weekend rider catagory that I "currently" make fun of

Just yesterday a guy at work saw me walking out with my helmet and asks where I park as he was going to start riding again soon...I told him where I park and told him about the motorcycle parking in the patient parking lot...he said, "yeah, but that gets real crowded in the summer"...I told him, "yeah, but it's real empty in jan and February"...sigh...a couple of years and I will be with the crowded parking crowd...

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Probably a stupid question I could look up on teh GOOGLE, but...

Going to do some camping this summer at a site about 80 miles from home (so cutting it close as some roads will be 75 mph, but enough of city riding added in so I should be fine)...

I will be staying at an RV site (I hope the RV people don't get mad when they see it's just me and my bike and a tent) and it has electric...I know it has 50amp and probably 110?

I would love to tap into that 50amp to quickly recharge as I would like to do a few day rides around the mountains...plus I don't want to recharge all night long...

I know my standard plug won't do, but what do I get? A whole new charger? A new end to my current charger? It won't get used often, so I don't want to spend a ton, but I would like something I can use a couple of times a year.

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100hp...nice

Is this the bike Polaris will be building?

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Wow...I wonder if the local dealerships will service my bike? Easier than taking to Denver...

In "non me" related news...I wonder what this means for the people in Ashland/Talent?

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I like that from amazon...it does look identical to the VLEDS...

where did you attach the control box? seems there is little room for it...

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Quote from: Shinysideup on December 03, 2014, 12:17:48 AM

This one is similar to the one I got from the same company, 3000 lumens, but $130 for two. ($75 vs $15)
http://www.vleds.com/headlights/h4-vx3.html

This looks like the same setup for $30 plus shipping.  Probably comes from the same factory.
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Xenon-White-Motorcycle-Headlight/dp/B00PQDUOSO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417765906&sr=8-1&keywords=motorcycle+LED+H4

One thing I don't like about a lot of the LEDs H4's is that they just change brightness between high/low, not aim.  The one I linked above has two LEDs, but they seem to both be on in both modes.

I bought a pair to auxiliary LED's for $50 a pair on ebay.  They are wonderful.  My only complaint is that they are too bright to oncoming traffic.  Someday I'll replace them with some sort of LED projector light.

What about this one?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00PFJXV9S/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1417572549&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

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