V-twin engine

We have a killer show tonight, man.

We're gonna be asking the question, does racing even matter in the V-Twin space anymore? A lot of speculation, a lot of stuff going on back and forth.

Harley and Indian, all brands of racing going through different changes in the last few years, everybody looking for their footing.

We have some of the most dedicated people from each brand of motorcycle racing are gonna be giving us their perspective.

The XR750, which was pretty much done, but you've seen it pop up from time to time, meant that that wa- that was also having to be sidelined and they were gonna fir- uh, focus, you know, solely on purpose-built motorcycles.

Stuff that, you know, was on the showroom floor at one time, and that was th- the new ruling.

Unfortunately with that, that also ruled out most of the V-Twins.

The only V-Twin that was basically on the market was the XG750 Harley-Davidson, which I, I should back up, which [laughs] uh, in 2017, the purpose-built Indian came out and right as that was coming out, the production XG750 was getting introduced.

How do you imp- real quick, how would you improve the chopper, that chopper era that went, what would you do to improve it? Like, one or two major improvements to make them better, what would you do?

Uh, I mean, I, my personal dream is probably just to use, like, a Ducati mo- motor instead of, you know, the typical V-Twin Harley or Triumph or, you know, something like that.

I, I really like the Italian V-Twin.

Okay.

Suzuki's SV-7GX.

Got all that? Turns the old SV650 V-Twin into some sort of priced middleweight tour.

We've got the SV650, the beloved V-Strom, that V-Twin.

Sticks it in an upright fairing with a tank of some size of liters and modern electronics, et cetera, and so on.

The UK tests list 211 kilograms wet, 450, something like that, a 795 millimeter seat height and a 6,999 pounds or whatever they have over there starting price.

What I don't know is whether it's ever going to come to the U.S.

I keep thinking they're going to do away with the SV engine since they turned over the V-Strom to just what is equivocally the Strom because it's using my motor, you know, and that's cool.

Yeah, like the GSX-8R and the V-Strom, the current V-Strom, use the same 800cc parallel twin, but the V-Twin is still soldiering on.