2012 Victory Highball

What with modern day ninja bikes and customized choppers flooding the market and, oh yeah, the war being over for 60-plus years. This 2012 Victory High Ball is a bare bones ride that’s reminiscent of stripped down, light 1940’s home built bike. Perfect for transporting rations and medic gear or running to the local Stop & Shop.

Embedded in Victory Motorcycles’ lineup is a gang of black sheep known as the 8-Balls.

Mr. High-Ball is all black, all the time. Mirrors, handlebars, headlight bucket, triple clamps, fenders and fender struts, frame, cylinder heads covers, dual exhausts, you name it – black as burnt toast, fresh asphalt and Texas crude. Exclusive to the 2012 High-Ball are adjustable high-rise handlebars that can be changed from upright/mini-ape to a laid back position.

The High-Ball runs on 16-inch laced wheels—gloss black rims and hubs with stainless steel spokes—shod with Dunlop Cruisemax tires, a fat 130mm front and modest 150mm rear.
Bare bones. A bold throwback. Built piece by piece around the road-pounding 106 Freedom
V-Twin, it’s a ride with all the power and agility you’d expect from a Victory.
The only white on the bike comes from tasteful white tank sides, and the fat white-walls of the tires.

Among bobber- and stripper-style bikes from major OEMs, the High-Ball delivers a unique styling that looks like it just arrived from a pricey custom shop.

2012 Victory Highball
Lowest Seat Height: Cruise in comfort down low while reaching up to the too-cool high-rise bars.
Best Value: The 2012 High-Ball delivers the most performance at the lowest MSRP.
Stainless steel spokes and Gloss Black wheels and hubs.
• A 2-into-1 exhaust (black, naturally) will be available and most Pure Victory Gear accessories designed for the Victory Vegas, including passenger seats and passenger floorboards or pegs, also fit on the High-Ball.
The High-Ball MSRP is $13,499 (US 49 state). For complete details about the High-Ball and other Victory models, and for a Victory dealer locator, visit victorymotorcycles.com.

2011 Victory Cross Roads

2011 Victory Cross Roads
For 2011, Victory is instituting the Victory Cross Roads CORE Custom Program. This plan allows a rider to select the bike color, saddlebag style, highway bar style, and add a windshield, before the motorcycle leaves for its new home.

Colors: Solid Crimson and Solid Black are the available colors. Highway Bars: The two styles available are the styled Forged Chrome Highway Bars and the Tube Chrome Highway Bars. Victory dealers will stock these components so a rider can select the combination that suits his style preferences and riding needs, and then ride home on his new customized Victory Cross Roads motorcycle.

Victory upholds this tradition with its 2011 Cross Roads, a 782-pound beast with a 106-cubic-inch, V-twin heart of steel.

Launched last year, Victory’s Cross bikes, the Roads and the Country, are fraternal twins; they’re based on the same platform but offered with different touring amenities. A bone-stock Roads has no windscreen, a single instrument gauge and 17.4-gallon soft saddlebags; the Country gets a fork-mounted fairing with full instrumentation, a sound system and 21-gallon hard saddlebags. Taking a page out of Burger King’s playbook, Victory’s new Core Custom Program lets you have a Cross Roads your way. Pick Black or ($500 extra) Crimson paint, then add a windscreen ($550), chrome saddlebag tip-over bars ($300) and chrome highway bars ($350 for tubular, $600 for forged), or upgrade to the hard saddlebags ($250). Long floorboards—wide in front and narrow in back—and fore-aft adjustability on the shift lever and brake pedal enhance comfort. Victory says the revised transmission is good for 100,000 miles, and thanks to less internal friction the Cross Roads’ recommended oil-change interval was bumped up from 3,000 to 5,000 miles (self-adjusting cam chains, hydraulic valves and a carbon-fiber-reinforced final drive belt further reduce maintenance). Unfortunately, our test bike, which was delivered with 2,000 miles on the odometer, clunked loudly when shifting gears, especially at cruising speeds in low gears. This is completely out of character with other Cross bikes we’ve ridden, including a 2011 Cross Country I rode for 1,000 miles on my way home from Victory’s Colorado press launch.
All 2011 Victorys are powered by the 106/6 Freedom V-twin, with touring models (Crosses, Vision) equipped with mild Stage 1 cams and ¬the others with hopped-up Stage 2 cams.

The Cross Roads is a well-balanced machine that comports itself admirably on just about any paved road. Every Cross Roads comes with a lock cylinder for the new-for-2011 accessory quick-detach Lock & Ride top trunk ($1,750 with mounts).

Victory Motorcycles will first bring it’s motorcycles to India

2011 Victory Hammer
Close on the heels of Harley Davidson beginning assembly of select models of its motorcycles in India, Victory Motorcycles, another company which manufactures cruiser motorcycles will soon set shop in India. Scheduled to showcase their motorcycles in the upcoming Indian Auto Expo in 2012, "Victory Motorcycles" will first bring it’s motorcycles to India in CBU(completely built unit) guise, after which it will set up an assembly unit.

According to Indian news outlet Business Standard, Victory will bring its cruisers and touring motorcycles to the lucrative Indian market. During Polaris’ 2010 fiscal report, Chief Executive Officer Scott Wine said the company had made several investments in markets like India.

Victory’s primary competitor in India will be Harley-Davidson which has an assembly plant in Haryana, India. Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki and KTM (which is partially owned by India’s Bajaj Auto) also have assembly plants in India.

2012 Victory High-Ball Previe Preview

It looks like American manufacturer Victory Motorcycles has gone back to old school with its new High-Ball bobber. Featuring matte paint schemes, whitewall tread tires, ape hangers and no sign of chrome, the bike is a true attention grabber.

The matte paint scheme shown is black with an accent of white on the tank, complemented by old school whitewall tires. Victory describes the High Ball as “Stripped down. Bare bones.
The High-Ball’s minimalist, tough guy appearance results from its tip-to-tail matte finish black-out treatment, chopped fenders, ape hanger style handlebar, solo saddle and 16-inch spoke wheels carrying plump whitewall tires.

The High-Ball looks as though it may have started life as Vegas 8-Ball. But aside from atypical Victory cruiser styling and the hot-rodded Freedom 106/6 powerplant, the High-Ball’s chassis dimensions also help define it as a new model.
The new Victory’s 25.0-inch seat height is second lowest in the line – only the Vision 8 Victory isn’t the first big brand to the ol’ skool motocool party. -Ball and Arlen Ness Vision have lower saddles at 24.5 inches.

When the designers of the 2012 Victory High-Ball went to work, they had one main idea in mind: create a bad-ass machine.
The only white on the bike comes from tasteful white tank sides, and the fat white-walls of the tires.

Among bobber- and stripper-style bikes from major OEMs, the High-Ball delivers a unique styling that looks like it just arrived from a pricey custom shop.

2012 Victory Highball Features:
• Most Performance: It's got the largest-displacement engine, the most horsepower and the most torque.
• Lowest Seat Height: Cruise in comfort down low while reaching up to the too-cool high-rise bars.
• Best Value: The High-Ball delivers the most performance at the lowest MSRP.
• Coolest Styling: Sure, judging styling is subjective, but come on - look at this bike
• - it's as much fun to look at the details as it is to twist the throttle.
• High-rise handlebars are adjustable and can be set in the upright position or laid back. The controls mount on the bars in either position and the cables reach in both positions, needing only simple hand tools
• to adjust.
• 16" lace wheels with 130 and 150mm Dunlop tires with whitewalls. Stainless steel spokes and Gloss Black wheels and hubs.
• Freedom 106/6 V-Twin: Fuel-injected, counter-balanced, 97 hp & 113 ft-lb of torque.
• Features a solo driver seat and footpegs.
• Single-gauge instrumentation with speedo, tach, tripmeter, warning lights & more.
• A 2-into-1 exhaust (black, naturally) will be available and most Pure Victory Gear accessories designed for the Victory Vegas, including passenger seats and passenger floorboards or pegs, also fit on the High-Ball. It's easy to personalize the bike to the way you want it, and build the perfect bike for you.

The 2011 Victory Vision 8-Ball

The 2011Victory Vision 8-Ball
Cycle Sounds, a leading manufacturer of audio equipment for the Powersports industry, has just introduced their "Victory Vision 8-Ball" fairing audio system. Wiring harness includes quick disconnect for easy installation and removal of the fairing with the sound system installed. Cycle Sounds systems are compatible with most any mp3, GPS, satellite radio, etc.

Ed Files, President of Cycle Sounds, has over a dozen patents regarding their audio products and has recently introduced some revolutionary new products, including the new water-resistant Bagger Audio lids and the new Rock Box.

The Victory Vision 8-Ball rides on Aluminum wheels with a 130/70 R18 Dunlop(r) Elite 3 front tire and a 180/60 R16 Dunlop(r) Elite 3 rear tire. The front suspension is a Telescopic Fork while the rear suspension is a Twin Sided Swing Arm. Front Dual Disc brakes and rear Disc brakes provide for the stopping power. The Victory Vision 8-Ball comes standard with a One-Piece, 2-passenger seating.