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Article: Vigorous Vulcan.(Evaluation)
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- November 1, 2001
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The 2002 Kawasaki Vulcan 1500 Mean Streak.
Few motorcycling niches have caught fire as fast as the new performance cruiser category. Although ""term was used briefly years ago to describe the newly ""ied, pavement bucking Honda Valkyrie flat six, at the "" there weren't enough competing bikes to really qualify it ""category. And it seemed like most V-twin cruiser customers weren't really asking for more power yet...but the key word in that sentence is "yet." Now, in just the last year, Honda has fired off another performance cruiser salvo with its new VTX V-twin, and other manufacturers have quickly followed suit with V-twin cruisers with a little (or a lot) more ...