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Gallery from NYC Cycle Show Yesterday

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My buddy Ken and I drove down from Albany yesterday (Friday), and spent three hours at the NYC cycle show (after a stop at a NYC deli for lunch, and before an upstate stop at a Shake Shack on the way home). Below freezing the entire day, so I don't want to hear anything about not doing a 300-mile day on bikes; we do that in the summer for lunch runs, but not yesterday.

Dealer or factory displays representing Victory, Indian, Polaris, H-D, Ducati, Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, BMW, Ural, Royal Enfield, and Spyder were present. Disappointingly absent were Triumph and Moto Guzzi, to name two.

For those bored or interested, I just put up a gallery of 110 pics (next-pic "swipe-able" on phone and tablets), here:

NYC Motorcycle Show 2016-12-09

Also present was the new bike from Vanguard. See my first two pics; for one of the many write-ups, Vanguard Motorcycles: New American Brand Debuts This Weekend in New York « MotorcycleDaily.com ? Motorcycle News, Editorials, Product Reviews and Bike Reviews is pretty thorough. Interesting exhaust exit, among other things.

If you look very carefully at the very last pic, just to the right of the column sort of in the center, you can see a green-clad stunter flying high. This was the live-action part of the show, but I didn't really get over there to see much.

 
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Nice! Thanks for sharing!
 
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Thanks for the sideshow Bill. No one was able to make it this weekend, I didn't feel like going alone, so this is as close as I'm going to get this year ;)
 
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Sorry to hear that, Mike. Better days are coming -- when you're old and retired like me, and can make your own schedule (e.g., Fridays, with us).
 
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Thanks for the look:smile
Some really interesting bikes in there.
That Mr Nasty XS 650/750 racing outfit took my eye, the ability to zoom in and take a closer look at the bikes is almost like being there.
You liked that F3 Spyder too I see.
 
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Yeah, it's not really clear, but if you click on the Open in New Tab icon, you get the pics full-size and without a border. Can them expand the view with scroll bars on a computer or fingers on a touch device.

As a result of some physical limitations -- getting a bionic hip in a year or two for me, a bad arm and shoulder for my wife -- I wouldn't count out a Spyder in my future. Notably, it would make getting on and off much safer and easier for my wife, and I wouldn't have to hold it up at stops. Spyder has now come up with a combination a couple years in the making: floorboards with adjustable ergos -- they slide along a pipe -- in combination with a trunk and saddlebags.

The bad news is that it leans the wrong way, costs about what you could get a Miata for, and, like a car, would take up a full bay in the garage (relegating our real car to the driveway, which is no fun when it would get covered in ice or snow). The good news is that they're a lot of fun; I rode one at the Americade rally the first year they came out, and that was with a smaller engine. Also, lately they lightened up on the nanny-state stability controller, so that it's a little more possible to do some hooligan riding.
 
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Wow, it was just like I had gone myself! :)
 
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Vanguard is interesting. Stripped down version before it is street legal. The street legal version I can see the big buiky license plate bracket with turn signals hanging down over the rear tire. Ot the mirrors with turn signals on the handle bars. Then someone buys one and immediately puts ape hangers on it. The invision piece of art right now is not really street legal. So the released version I want to see.
 
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