YAMAHA VMAX
THEE MUSCLE BIKE

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*****IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO SOME BASIC MODS ON YOUR STOCK BIKE REVIEW THE MATERIAL IN THE ABOVE LINKS. ALL MODS I HAVE DONE WORK WELL, BUT BEWARE OF THE HINDLE HEADER SYSTEM AND SUPERBRACE FORK BRACE. THEY FIT MY BIKE BUT THEY MAY NOT FIT YOURS!! ALL OTHER MODS I DID SHOULD EASILY WORK ON ANY MAX. GET THE INFO, TOOLS, FUNDS, PARTS. GATHER SOME PATIENCE AND BEGIN.*****

Vmax has turned into Zmax: fork brace, head set "fixed", frame brace, manual fan switch, Galfer green brake pads, braided stainless steel brake and clutch lines, Speedbleeders, National Cycle Plexistar II shield, case guards, factory sissy bar and tail piece, a few other accessory odds and ends, Bel radar detector, Hindle 4-1 Stainless Steel Headers with a 16" Carbon Fiber Stealth Can, K & N air filter, four 1/2" holes drilled in the air box "Y", carbs left stock but needles shimmed 0.025" with five coils tied off on the slide springs, center stand removed, Work's shocks with dual rate springs and adjustable rider system, Works dual rate fork springs, reinstalled Bridgestone V rated Excedra tires The dyno run stock was 107, with mods 111 and the curve exactly follows the stock run, no hesitations, no weak spots. The net weight loss from center stand and shocks of about 50lbs, produces another net of about 6 hp, for a total gain of 10 useful hp on a massively improved handling package. My Vmax was good stock, but the frame mods, loss of weight and efficient exhaust have produced the best bike I have owned. You know, I can only wonder why Damaha could not do things right in the first place. How many years has it been!! Zmax is running GREAT!! and can Hardley wait:)

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The old Venture motor of the early '80's hot-rodded to 140+hp at the engine and around 106+ at the rear wheel. After 15 years there is still not much around that can challenge the MAX from light to light, and at highway roll-ons!! or parked on the Strip :)

Muscle cars were a product of the big V-8 engines and the hot rodding techniques coming out of the 50's,60's and early 70's. There can never be any true muscle cars again. They have all been built and are not produced anymore. Straight line power and speed, unchallenged on the strip or asphalt. There were many models of muscle cars produced.

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There have been very few true muscle bikes produced. Every major company made an attempt. Only Honda and Yamaha succeeded to any degree. Honda's V65 Magna, in 1983 set the standard and perhaps is responsible for creating the name and mystique of the muscle bike. Honda followed the Magna within a year with the V65 Sabre. Honda's engines produced the hottest production bikes around until 1985 when Yamaha introduced the Vmax. Big, heavy, powerful, the tried and true V-4 engine from the touring model Venture was souped up, utilizing some basic hot rodding techniques, and V-Boost would be born :)

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Basically stock until 1999 the red 95 took a little test run to 150 before becoming the world's fasted touring bike. A car at 80, feels like a Max at 120. The engine and overall systems are so very strong, capable of withstanding constant hard runs and lending itself to being souped up even more, into the 110-200+hp range, at the rear wheel.

Vmax has turned into Zmax: If you own a Vmax and are a basic wrench with limited facilities, you can make the mods mentioned on Zmax at the top of the page. Pics and procedures will be found linked off this site. Looking back, the first thing I would do is to correct the sloppy front end, as the power train is fine but is coupled with an absolutely terrible suspension. That is unless you just want to sit, take it easy and cruise around with the rookies or "other" bikes. You should not have to correct Damaha's mistakes and lack of consideration, but have no choice if you want a "real muscle bike." Get the front suspension fixed first. Looking back the first thing I would do is install a $100 set of Works dual rate fork springs. Emulators or Progessive would be find. Anything to get the
"ball point" stock springs into the junk pile. This a good time to lower the fork tube in the triple tree up to one inch, and the rubber washer in the headset needs to be replaced with a metal washer to firm up the headset. I have to laugh everytime I think of Damaha engineer's trying to figure out a way at no cost or changes to keep riders eyes in their sockets at high speed, and then stay on the bike during "re-entry." I can just see some little gardening engineer coming in with the rubber washer out of his garden hose, proclaiming, "I feex eet." I would follow the fork springs, lowering the forks up to one inch and headset washer, with a billet aluminum fork brace. For about $200+ you will see an absolutely drastic improvement in handling. The front end suspension will now be more inline with the strong stock engine.

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Other companies made an honest run at the muscle bike name and title. Honda bit the dust by the end of the 1986 model, apparently as the result of a severe cam eating oiling problem in the upper heads that apparently was not properly corrected or exposed. The Vmax has remained in production since 1985, basically unchanged and unchallenged. You can in 2000, go out and buy Mr. Max, still capable of holding its own on the strip, light to light, and shining at highway roll on's.

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What is the Vmax? It is not a Harley, nor a cruiser, nor a squid, nor a ST. It is a muscle bike. For the few who dare, it is Thee Muscle Bike. The need for speed. There is Only One, The Max!

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