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• Second-hand advice: Yamaha XVS 1300 A Midnight Star Buy a used Yamaha cruiser
• Inspection and market situation
• Technical specifications
• Facelift

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The Yamaha XVS 1300 A Midnight Star in used advice.

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The thick slippers are pulled on cast wheels. A 130 on a wide alloy rim – fans love it. The brakes, on the other hand, are rather mediocre, but are sufficient for gliding.

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Flat iron: The stylish panorama speedometer is lavishly framed in chrome and hugs the handlebars with sophistication. This makes it fun to control your cruising speed more often.

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A silky smooth engine, handy, comfortable chassis – ideal for touring cruising.

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Character actor even if he only acts the cruiser classic. The powerful V2 is a short stroke, the cooling fins only take on decorative tasks in view of the water cooling.

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With a large pane, sissy bar and visually harmonious leather suitcases from the original accessories, the 1300 grows into a travel steamer …

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… and leaves a good impression in used advice.

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Second-hand advice: Yamaha XVS 1300 A Midnight Star

Second-hand advice: Yamaha XVS 1300 A Midnight Star
Buy a used Yamaha cruiser

To understand these 1300s as a stopgap between the middle class and the upper class would be wrong. With modern technology and great touring comfort, it is in a class of its own.

Thorsten Dentges

11/22/2012

Long and fat, as it should be for a grown-up cruiser. With a large-capacity engine whose 73 HP have no problems with a live weight of over 300 kilos. A heavy pound, but the 1300 is quite tame and surprisingly agile on winding roads. It is therefore well received by self-driving women, who make up a noticeably large proportion of the buyers. But even for many seasoned men, the sister XV 1900 (350 kilos) is probably a size too big, which is why they prefer to saddle up on the 1300s.

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It is well laid out for the variety of European roads with changing tar surfaces, although stepping boards show the limits of the freedom of inclination at an early stage. However, the only mediocre brakes hardly ever get into critical situations, because the driving style should not exceed normal cruising mode excessively despite very good driving stability. Drivers of an XVS 1300 A are usually touring riders who enjoy the great running culture of the Yamaha V2. It doesn’t bother you that the water-cooled V2 only wears its fine cooling fins as a distinguishing mark for the “Classic Cruiser” genre and strikes a rather technocratic, quiet note.

Four valves per cylinder, significantly more bore than stroke, two balancer shafts, the modern design has little in common with the stylistic models from Milwaukee, but given the minimal load change reactions for the large displacement, such a comparison is always irrelevant if you keep it as long as possible and want to travel comfortably. Or go on a trip as a couple, because the Midnight Star offers a very relaxing place for passengers, and a load of more than four hundred pounds allows sufficient luggage. Bottom line: great for classy cruises at a fair rate.

Inspection and market situation

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Flawless. With regular maintenance zero stress is to be expected, the Midnight Star runs rock solid. So if you have a service booklet (inspection every 10,000 kilometers) and the machine is in full shine, you can access it without worries. Note: Even if the first tires of the first years of construction (2007/2008) are still blessed with sufficient residual tread, they should be changed for optimal grip. A set of branded tires in a suitable format costs around 300 euros. It gets interesting when it comes to accessories: Formerly expensive extras (leather cases, for example, cost 1350 euros as Yamaha accessories!) Should be included in the pricing. Hepco, for example, is popular & Becker panniers with C-Bow holders and silencers from Falcon or Miller. In the case of Far East universal bags or no-name chrome parts, however, it is better to ask whether the cheap cosmetics only serve the (professional) seller to market the bike in a rogue manner.

Market situation
No problem finding a used 1300 Midnight Star, for example on the Internet. However, you should plan longer journeys to visit, because the inventory is manageable, and not every neighboring dealer has one in the second-hand portfolio. Bikes as good as new with less than 5,000 kilometers on the clock can still be bought second-hand with the appropriate accessories for 8,000 euros, although daily registrations and discounted new vehicles are already being sold for 10,000 euros. For 7,000 euros you can find very decent used cars, mostly those born before 2009, with a lot of accessories and rarely with more than 15,000 kilometers. The offer is very thin for less than 6,000 euros – a few private sellers offer machines that have been driven a lot (more than 30,000 kilometers) at correspondingly low prices in order to get rid of them more quickly. With offers from abroad (Belgium, Italy, Poland) caution is advised if the history of the bike is not proven. However, the search in this country is worthwhile, because German offers are often for machines maintained in authorized workshops with a complete service booklet.
Availability at the Mart: low.

Price level in euros	Years of construction	mileage
Low (5800-6900)	2007-2008	15000-40000
Medium (7000-8500)	2007-2010	7500-25000
High (8600-9500)	2009-2011	1000-10000
Type	in program	Sales *
VP26	2007 until today	1678

* As of October 2012

Technical specifications

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With a large pane, sissy bar and visually harmonious leather suitcases from the original accessories, the 1300 grows into a travel steamer.

engine
Water-cooled two-cylinder four-stroke 60-degree V-engine, four valves per cylinder, wet sump lubrication, electronic injection, regulated catalytic converter, mechanically operated multi-disc oil bath clutch, five-speed gearbox, toothed belt.
Bore x stroke: 100 x 83 mm
Displacement: 1304 cm³
Rated output: 53.5 kW (73 hp) at 5500 rpm
Max. Torque: 106 Nm at 4000 rpm

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Double loop frame made of steel, telescopic fork, two-arm swing arm made of steel, central-
Suspension strut with lever system, double disc brake at the front, disc brake at the rear.
Cast aluminum wheels: 3.50 x 16; 4.50 x 16
Tires: 130/90 R 16, 170/70 R 16

mass and weight
Wheelbase 1690 mm, steering head angle 57.3 degrees, caster 145 mm, seat height * 720 mm, weight with a full tank * 307 kg, payload * 206 kg, tank capacity 18.5 liters.

Measurements (MOTORRAD 3/2007)
Top speed **: 174 km / h
Acceleration from 0-100 km / h: 5.0 seconds
Pulling speed 60–100 km / h: 5.9 sec
Consumption: 4.6 l / 100 km (country road)

* MOTORCYCLE measurements; ** Manufacturer information

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The thick slippers are pulled up on the cast wheels: A 130 on a wide aluminum rim – fans are on it. The brakes, on the other hand, are rather mediocre, but are sufficient for gliding.

2007 Debut of the XVS 1300 A Midnight Star, type VP26. Colors: red, black, silver. Price: 10 792 euros.

2008 Colors: red, black. Price: 10 850 euros.

2009 Colors: black, silver. Price: 10 950 euros.

2010 Colors: blue, black. Price: 10 995 euros.

2011 new composite brake UBS (Unified Brake System) optional. Colors: only black. Prices: 11 195 euros without UBS, 11695 euros with UBS.

2012 Color: Black. Price: 11,495 or 11,995 euros (at the end of the year, price promotion: 10,995 euros with UBS, 9,495 euros without UBS).

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