This proves harley could bring the bronx to life...and they choose disappointment everytime. The pan am is proof they can do something new and we would accept it.

I remember the announcement of the VR1000, it was massively exciting at the time! I bought all and any mag that had articles on it, still have them!! I was a hardcore Ducati guy, still am, but that VR1000 was big news and I wanted one, BAD! Then the development dragged on and on, meantime the competition became better and faster, Harley just never caught up. Must dig out all those mags and refresh my memory!

Not sure why the old Harley boys don't like the v-rod, it's popular everywhere outside the u.s. I like my 03 v-rod, definitely won't perform as great as any of my sport bikes but still enjoyable to ride.

I remember these turds. It had all the looks of a bike from the. 70’s in the 90’s. I remember telling Scott Russel sorry he had to ride that thing at mid Ohio.

The VR would have been a great bike if they had kept making them, I do love the baggers racing, and they're not that much slower than the sports bikes on tracks, and that takes some skill to do

Duhamal crashed on the last lap at Brainard while leading. That was the best race for the Harley. They should have stayed in road racing longer than they did.

Sorry, but the engine in that bike wasn't designed by anyone at HD - It was designed and manufactured in GERMANY just like their V Rod motor - The only designed American part on that motorcycle was the friggin PAINT JOB- the so call "engineers" at Harley Davidson are totally INCAPABLE of designing anything that complicated

Enjoyed the story…loved the VR but unfortunately Harley was too late to compete with anyone but enjoyed seeing them racing in person. They had top riders (Russell, Picotte and Duhamel) and personnel on the team but were just too far behind in development. A true shame…

Looks great

Awesome story on the VR! but now all these Bagger A holes wheeling around the neighborhood. 🤣

Smokey Yunick said it himself... "the throttle bodies are too big...."

Crown Victoria? Laughing my ass off!

I gotta say.... even tho the v rod got trashed on back then... the new gen (that includes me) are a lot more open to new idea and new bikes. The old way of thinking is def being slowly fazed out

It looks ok but that front end looks like a design from the 1960s lol

Remember when that pile ran intermittently at Daytona and Russell coasted it into the hot pit and before the “chain-drive wallet” Motor Company crew could crawl over the wall Russell dropped that turd on the ground and retired to his motor home! 🤣

It was hopeless

That bike wasnt capable of racing with factory bikes. I did end the careers of top riders though. Harley..wanted the sound and look of a harley. That was harleys down fall. Soooo..racing sanctioning bodies formed harley only classes or gave harley huge advantages.aka drag bikes. Its sad harley should have been innovative and racing. They build cruisers NOT performance bikes.

it was a turd that just would not flush.

Harley racer ? Lmao the Ducati liter twin smoked the vr1000

Does anybody know how to pronounce Porsche correctly? Geez

Harley Davidson has Alzheimers disease.