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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Lake Oswego, OR
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Sooo. Back in the 1990's I worked for an aluminum company that produced the most bicycle frames in the continental US. The bike division got the contract to make 50 of the VR1000's I believe. We had one. Never fired. Keys in the CFO's desk. It was incredibly sexy. I found this on the web:
"What was interesting about the VR1000 was that it had a street-legal (sort of) variant, required by AMA rules to homologate the racing machine. The road-going VR was made in a run of 50 examples (all that was needed to homologate), sold for the low-low price of 49,490$. For that you got two colours for the price of one (black on one side, orange on the other, and a white stripe betwixt). The roadgoing VR was a high spec sportbike that weighed around 400 lbs and knocked out 135 hp"
I am pretty certain this is the bike we made the frame for. I remember that there were only 50 made and that the price was $50k.
Larry
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