Irrational exuberance: Star Motorcycle’s redesigned Vmax redefines muscle-bike genre
How do you evaluate a motorcycle whose most notable feature is a number? One-hundred-and-ninety-seven horsepower. To a rational mind, it’s boggling, functionally irrelevant, over-the-top ridiculous.
For many motorcyclists, these adjectives represent excess. For the Vmax buyer – and many would-be Vmax buyers who will miss out on the 2,500 allotted to the United States for the [...]