[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

That must feel pretty sweet. I've been itching to upgrade from my 750 Shadow for quite a while now... I road a Cross Roads during the demo days this year. While I'm not into touring packages the bike felt great. Very solid and powerful. I'd love to get a Vegas 8-Ball next summer but we'll see how things go.

thats what I traded in, my 2004 shadow aero, the sold it in two days as when I was at the dealer yesterday I noticed a lady getting ready and driving away. to bad I didn't get to talk to her as I have more parts for it in the garage....

I was inlove with the cross country, and was picking it untill I road the cross country, cross road, and the harley all with in about 30 min. the victorys were nice but low end power was realy lacking (is in all the reviews, but I never realy noticed how much befor) low speed handeling sucks. it was realy unstable and awkward feeling doing a lock to lock U-turn, the harley I just through it over and it went around in 2/3 the area as the victory and didn't wobble or anything.

as for high end ya the victory had a bit more but really nothing that woudl sway me. but the two biggest problem with the victory was #1 the wind managment, it sucked no other words for it, well there is.. buffiting from hell.. #2 lack of dealer support, very few places carry parts or accessories, and if they do the selection sucks, so everything has to be ordered in which increases down time. 4 dealers in BC compared to HD 9, 5 in AB to HD 9 there getting better but only one fo the ones in BC is a gold level service, two are bronze and one silver...

when you go to buy a bike.. drive the victory, then go strait to a HD shop and test the comparable, I was lucky here the HD and the Victory shops share the same parking lot

Steve