2006 Yamaha Roadliner : First Ride – Part 1
Starting with the style, Roadliner turn heads wherever it goes through the neo-streamliner appearance and excellent attention to detail just behind the showroom floor. Besides, it leaves the door with a range of accessories Star already in place so that consumers can customize before it even hits the streets. The personalization is nice, but it’s not very fun if your bike can not be executed.
That is why the Roadliner is equipped right from the factory with a beast of an engine. The air-cooled 113ci push-rod V-Twin, which has a 9.5:1 compression ratio and double counterbalancers, is as good as it looks. The fuel is fed by a pair of 43mm throttle bodies with 12 holes injectors better than atomize the fuel and reduce consumption in the process.
Spent gases are expelled by a EXUP valve located just before the slip-on silencer which allows accessories for cans to be bolted on without removing the unit EXUP. What EXUP, you ask? Introduced on Yamaha sport a decade ago, the exhaust valve against increases in low-to stimulate the couple, then opens rpm higher to allow more high-end power. This is the first time, it has never been used on a patrol car.
The style of the Roadliner costs seeping its seamless style fuel tank throughout the engine. The cylinder cooling fins are individually machined look for a highly personalized and chromium conical push rod covers really stand out against blacks engine. The best part, however, is difficult to know how it works. People said Yamaha Roadliner walking on their rear-wheel where he pumped a 92 hp and somewhere in the neighborhood of over 100 lb-ft of torque. That puts it at either of our Cruiser Bruiser Cruiser or classes of performance.
Not impressed? Well, you should be because the Roadliner feels pretty damn fast, and with an aluminum frame and other components of weight, Roadliner could be in contention for the title the lightest Bruiser Cruiser if it tips the scales n ‘anywhere near the 701-lb dry weight figure claimed by Star Motorcycles.
This bike is not looking good and going fast. Well, it is perhaps, but it still has other things for him, like the fact that trafficking in fact to consider how the space it takes. It is long and wide, and when you swing on one leg, it feels solid, but once in motion, it hides its mass.