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This month Road Bike, a metric bike only magazine, has finally succumbed to pressure and considers Victory as a metric motorcycle. I think it was a good call by them (plus extra advertising doesn't hurt). I guess the big argument was over the meaning of a "Metric Bike." To me it means any motorcycle as long as its not a Harley. To some it means non-American motorcycles. And to some it means the fasteners are metric units instead of inches.

Okay, now that that's settled....how are we going to classify Buells?

I don't know, but I tend to have a problem with this over-classification process. A bike's a bike, in other words, I LIKE 'EM ALL, and I think that anybody who has a "problem"(okay...admittedly it's usually the Harley crowd) with ANY brand is a little....shall we say....dense.

Dwight
(and besides....having a set of SAE and metric tools is pretty cool......now let me see...that 13mm is a 1/2in equivalent, right?)

When I was wrenching for the army in Germany, they used to sometimes give us 12-14 end wrenches restamped 1/2 - 9/16 that almost fit. I forget who supplied them, but I think it was the same outfit that used to make VW jacks. They worked OK as long as you didn't tighten the bolts enough. The wrenches seemed to be made of spring steel and the jaws would pop open with a lot of torque.

I've got fond memories of throwing away what was left of the factory VW tool kit for my Super Beetle :-) That lug socket would be good for pulling a spark plug, that's about it. With Victory, it may have helped that they've entered into Partnership with KTM. Curious to see what that will affect, besides quad runners.

I read the article. They have some more work to do. Of course all the big jap bikes are made here now, but Victory was born here. I don't agree with RoadBike. If I had a subscription, I'd cancel it.
Dennis