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Core fusion

Victory follows suit: After BMW showed the Lo Rider and Aprilia the Mana X, the Americans present a fascinating study. Created from a minimum of parts, merged into a driving sculpture that shows the bare core of a motorcycle.

Ralf Schneider

02/11/2009

The core ?? the core. A motorcycle, that is to say, cannot afford luxury. And that includes for the creators of the Victory Core, Michael Song and chief designer Greg Brew, even a rear suspension. If you do without it, you can draw a sweeping, curvy line from the steering head to the rear wheel axle and from there an almost straight line backwards under the engine. The result is an acute-angled triangle with a curved and an open side, which is crossed by the wheels with great tension.




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To make the relationships clear: seat height 71, wheelbase 165.5 centimeters. Weight: 213 kilograms.

It couldn’t be more simple and hardly more effective. Before the Core, Michael Song designed the Victory large tourer Vision (see MOTORRAD 21/2008). Its cast aluminum frame, hidden under lavish cladding parts, seems to have been a great inspiration, because a similar cast part holds up? now in all openness ?? also the few assemblies of the core together. It serves mainly as a support for the steering head and motor as well as the seat made of mahogany, and it also functions as a fuel tank and intake air duct. The two cast parts of the rear suspension are screwed on, their joists create the transition to another cast aluminum part, which is also designed as an engine spoiler, air scoop and panel for the oil cooler.

First and foremost, the Core is a gift from the Victory design department to itself on the occasion of the company’s tenth anniversary. The chief designer and vice president speak of the expression of the Victory philosophy and vaguely of an outlook into the future. Not a word is said about series production. Although the 1731 Freedom V2 with 97 hp, which is intended to drive the Core, is well established in the USA and will soon also be homologated in the EU, the integration of indispensable details such as taillights, mirrors, indicators, license plate holders or fenders into the purist design concept should still be require considerable design effort. Not to mention the construction of an approved exhaust system with sufficient silencer and catalytic converter volume. The Lo-Rider concept from BMW, which follows a similar approach to the Core, has already been considered and developed much further in this regard.

Reduction to the essentials

Nevertheless, the Core confirms what BMW and Aprilia have just hinted at: a trend towards motorcycles that push purism to the extreme. The resulting products may be shaped differently by European or American traditions, but they all agree on the strict restriction to the essentials.

When designing the machine, the focus was not on the multifunctionality of cast aluminum parts, but on functional clarity. A frame is a frame, a tank tank, and so on. The individual components clearly stand out from each other, even in the single-color silver metallic painted version of the Fury. With a black frame, anthracite painted fenders and an anthracite painted tank, the contrasts are even stronger. It is part of the American school of motorcycle construction to hide cable harnesses or cooling water installations as discreetly as possible so that the lines of a machine are not disturbed. Not only the American manufacturers Harley-Davidson and Victory follow this principle, but also the Honda Fury, whose water cooler can only be guessed at from the side. If it weren’t for a short, shameful hose connection between the front cylinder head and the radiator, which is made small between the frame beams, the 1300 V2 with its cooling fins could easily pass as an air-cooled construction from this perspective.

As a second deviation from the American technology canon, the Honda drives its rear wheel not via a toothed belt, but via a cardan shaft. Which does not go uncommented in the press release. There, Honda refers to “great efforts” that have been made to design the drivetrain with lines that are as pleasing as possible. As if a toothed belt drive was more beautiful per se. The almost 68 centimeters seat height and the hidden rear wheel suspension are in full compliance with US standards. This has been allowed since the Harley Softail models. Beyond all technical and design details, the core and the fury are of paramount importance. The two make it clear what the BMW Lo Rider and the Aprilia Mana X had only hinted at: a turn towards motorcycles that take purism to the extreme, the departure from the two-wheel sedan. The products emerging from this trend may be shaped differently by European or American traditions, be more committed to driving dynamics, perhaps even sportiness or more to cruising. And yet they all agree on one thing: a strict restriction to the essentials.

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