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Showing posts with label Victory. Show all posts
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2012 Victory Cross Country Tour Best Performance Review

At the heart of the 2012 Victory Cross Country Tour sits the 106 cubic inch Freedom V-Twin power plant, expertly balanced for the perfectly controlled explosions that deliver 97 horsepower and 109 ft lbs of hole shot torque. Maestro of the motorcycle world, it’s what keeps man, machine and highway working together in perfect harmony. The highest performing 6-speed overdrive transmission on the road receives the power generated by the massive V-twin and seamlessly turns it into something you can use. Neutral Selection Assist and helical-cut gears ensure every shift is as quiet and smooth as the one before it.

Standard on the Cross Country Tour, the Victory Anti-Lock Brake System doesn’t discriminate between dry, wet or rock-strewn pavement. No matter what the conditions, ABS monitors what the wheel is doing and gives you consistent, smooth braking from the handlebar lever down to the rubber on the road. Since Mother Nature seldom listens to the weather requests of motorcycle enthusiasts, we’ve taken means to accommodate her. Down below the knees, we’ve given the Cross Country Tour dual fairing vents (as well as a storage box). Close ‘em for complete protection in cold or rain, open ‘em wide when the weather’s more agreeable.

2012 Victory Cross Country Tour
2012 Victory Cross Country Tour
After making every other aspect of going the distance as effortless as possible, the throttle hand still had a beef about being overworked. By adding precise, automotive-style cruise control, the right mitt can now simply hang on and enjoy the ride. Just in case the open road gets too lonely the class-leading rear suspension features an easily adjusted air shock and coil spring, ensuring a smooth ride for you and any adventure seeking passenger. Add up lower faring space, trunk and saddlebags and you get an amazing, best-in-class 41.1 gallons of storage space.



The 2012 Victory Cross Country Tour With lockable latches and 21.3-gallon capacity, the Cross Country Tour can protect from theft and accomodate a passenger that doesn't follow the "travel lightly" rule. Exquisitely designed chrome rails provide style as well as tip-over insurance that you’ll be grateful for when your brother-in-law asks to ride. The 2012 Cross Country Tour lacks for nothing in the comfort category, and as proof we offer up heated seats and handgrips as exhibit A. Together they offer the best means of enhancing your road warrior reputation by adding precious road time to both sides of summer. To maximize comfort, we’ve raised the windshield, resulting in reduced buffeting and increased wind and rain protection.

Rule of the road: the lower the seat height, the more control. The Cross Country Tour has the lowest seat in its class. Unless you admit having the toe strength of a ballerina, you want to be able to plant both feet firmly on the ground. A machine that looks this good deserves to be seen. The High Intensity Discharge headlamp shines four times brighter than standard halogen headlamps and shouts ‘HERE I COME’ four times louder. Since it also lasts 10 times longer, you can see your way ocean to ocean with every mile marker perfectly illuminated. When the passenger floorboards are easily adjustable, any height passenger can find comfort. That’s the long and short of it. Power from the engine can now be sipped to charge phones, cameras, or anything that uses a 12v socket. Sometime during your long distance cruise you may need to call in support for that rider stranded with a lesser motorcycle.

2012 Victory Vision Tour Cruiser Style Review

2012 Victory Vision Tour 

I was punting the 400kg behemoth as fast as I dared along the twisty road when former MT editor
Greg Leech shot past on the nimble Triumph Street Triple. I knew there was no way I could keep up
with him, but I thought I’d try for a little while, at least. To my great surprise, “a little while” became “quite a while”, because the capabilities of the Victory Vision Tour were far greater than I expected. Greg had pulled me through my mental barrier, allowing the big V-twin to display it’s true potential.

None of the full-dresser Harleys I’ve ridden over the years have felt quite as sure-footed, so easy to flick from side to side or so stable through the sweepers, without a hint of a wallow. Coupled with convincing brakes and a gloriously punchy engine, this Victory revealed what could be achieved with modern design and technology (more on that in a moment) in a cruiser-style arrangement. The 2012 Victory Vision Tour is by no means a sportstourer, though. A mass of 400kg (when fully fuelled) still deserves a great deal of respect, and I doubt the plot would be easy to rectify if things got out of hand. It’s just that the point of no return seems to lie a lot further out than appearances initially indicate.

2012 Victory Vision Tour
2012 Victory Vision Tour
Chappo reviewed the base model Vegas (2012 Victory Vision Tour MSRP $22,595 plus ORC) on these pages in MT #215. The model we’re talking about here is the flagship Vision Tour, with the topbox and everything else, which goes for $36,595 plus ORC (the Vision Street without the topbox starts at $32,995 plus ORC). The Vision range has a stroked version of the Vegas’s 100ci engine, with a bore x stroke of 101 x 108mm resulting in 106ci, or 1731cc.

The Vision’s outrageous design with the ‘V’ themes front, back and side is none too subtle, but it does grow on you and the controls are very clean and almost minimalist. The high-perched topbox is generous and holds two full-face helmets, though the panniers are rather small. When you ride this thing, the feel is spot-on. It’s got guts and you know you’re riding something special. It’s quite unlike the Japanese cruisers I’ve sampled, which do everything right at significantly lower cost, but somehow just buzz along and often leave me cold.



And as you’d expect just by looking at the Victory Vision Tour, it’s incredibly comfortable, with a plush seat and brilliant pillion accommodation, a very effective fairing with an electrically-adjustable screen, adjustable air suspension in the rear, cruise control and a good stereo system (with CD changer and iPod interface). Unlike the current Harley tourers, however, there’s no ABS (yet). Some people say that a ‘proper’ cruiser has to be a Harley and to some extent I can sympathise. But now I’ve ridden all four mainstays of the Victory range, I can only say the brand presents a serious alternative. If I had a lazy 30 something grand and I was after a modern cruiser with all the trimmings, I know where I’d look.


2012 Victory Vision Tour ENGINE 
Type: Air/oil-cooled, SOHC, eight-valve, four-stroke, 50-degree V-twin

Bore and stroke: 101mm x 108mm

Displacement: 1731cc

Compression ratio: 9.4:1

Fuel system: Electronic fuel injection

2012 Victory Vision Tour TRANSMISSION 
Type: Six-speed
Final drive: Belt

2012 Victory Vision Tour CHASSIS AND RUNNING GEAR Frame type: Tubular steel cradle
Front suspension: 43mm conventional fork, nonadjustable
Rear suspension: Monoshock, air adjustable
Front brake: Single 300mm disc with four-piston caliper
Rear brake: Single 300mm disc with twin-piston caliper

2012 Victory Vision Tour DIMENSIONS AND CAPACITIES
Dry weight: 365kg
Seat height: 673mm
Fuel capacity: 22.7 litres

2012 Victory Vision Tour PERFORMANCE
Max power: 67.7kW (92hp) at 4500rpm
Max torque: 14.7kg-m at 2500rpm