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Vengeance Whiplash reflects the powerful and sleek styling of the Pro-Street design movement. With its long low design, this motorcycle combines the best in styling, handling and performance. The Whiplash features Drag bars with long front & short rear fenders. The frame features 37◦ of rake with 4″ of stretch in the back bone and 2″ in the down-tubes with a 4″ over front-end. Comes standard with a polished 113Ci engine, 6-Speed transmission and a massive 280 Series rear tire.
The Vengeance Raven combines the best of the Vengeance Maxis Chopper with a fully independent active rear trike suspension. The geometry of this soft-style trike is 6” up 2” out, 40◦ of rake with a 12” over front-end. The drive-train features an S&S 113ci and Primo-Rivera 6-Speed transmission. The dual rear 280 Series tires and front 120/70-21 tires make this trike look as good as it handles. This trike was named the ‘Raven’ to honor our first trike owner Rick Allen of Def Leppard. Rick Allen is active with his charity the Raven Drum Foundation which provides music education opportunities for children. [Read more…]
Rock fans worldwide are familiar with Def Leppard’s incredible drummer Rick Allen. At Vengeance, we have had the honor to get to know the man behind the legend. Vengeance has participated in several Rock-n-Country rides with Rick and Vengeance dealer Mike Cavinder of Classic American Motorcycles of Thousand Oaks, CA. Last summer Mike approached us about helping him put together a trike for Rick. Due to the fact that Rick lost his left arm in an auto accident posed several challenges beyond the typical trike conversion.
Vengeance Motorcycles staff took a Friday afternoon off and joined up with our friends from the Pechanga Resort & Casino to go for a ride and visit a few of the premier wineries in the Temecula Valley. Few people are aware of the rich history of winemaking in Southern California, but over 200 years ago, winemaking made its debut in California at Mission San Juan Capistrano. The first winemakers were the mission padres. The tradition of winemaking still exists only 18 miles east of San Juan Capistrano in Temecula, where mission vineyards were established in 1820.
What do you do on a humid weekend in October when the 22nd hurricane of the season is barreling down on you? You go for a ride! Biketoberfest this year was met with clear skies and humid air all weekend. But even as our show rig Nemesis rolled into Daytona all they could talk about on the news was “Wilma” the next in a year-long string of storms that made 2005 the worst hurricane season on record. And here we were rolling in for a 3-day rally wondering if we were going to be waist deep in water before the end of the rally. Being the hearty souls that we are we unpacked the truck, set up the canopy and rolled out the bikes!
Vengeance joined Hot Bike Magazine and Kerri Kasem for the 5th Annual Mid-State Rally held in Paso Robles, CA. The weather over the weekend was beautiful and the Mid-State Fairgrounds was filled with vendors and rally participants who were able to camp right on the grounds of the show. Attendance was strong and the vendors were busy all weekend while bands performed on the main stage and the smell of bar-b-que tri-tip filled the air.
This year Vengeance brought the Nemesis show rig back to Sturgis, SD for another great rally. The new bikes brought out several stars including country recording artist James Otto who was headlining at the Broken Spoke and Keith Anderson who was opening for Tim McGraw at the Buffalo Chip. Keep an eye on American Thunder for the ride we went on with Keith and his friends.
The Vengeance Maxis combines the best of the Warrior, Raider, Bone Crusher & Banshee into one bike. The geometry of this soft-style chopper 6” up 2” out, 40◦ of rake with a 12” over front-end. The drive-train features an S&S 113ci and Primo-Rivera RSD 6-Speed transmission. The rear 280 Series tire and front 120/70-21 tires make this bike look massive from every angle. Everything on the Maxis is big, but this bike rides tighter and stronger than many smaller bikes.
Easyriders magazine named the Vengeance Black Widow as one of the “Top 10 Bikes”. Each year Easyriders staff chooses 10 bikes that they feel are the best of the best. As you can imagine this is a monumental task and with the 100’s of bikes they see each year it is difficult to narrow down the field. Easyriders was so impressed with the Widow they included Vengeance in this elite group of manufacturers.
Nothing is more American than Baseball, Rock-n-Roll and Custom Bikes. This was never more true than when the team from Vengeance rode from the Hot Bike Super Show in Irvine, CA to San Bernadino to catch the rock supergroup Def Leppard do their thing. The guys from Vengeance rode several bikes including the hot new Banshee choppers. The weather was perfect and the 50-mile ride from Irvine to San Berdoo was a breeze. The bikes arrived and created quite an uproar as they rolled into the ballpark where the Inland Empire 66er’s play minor league baseball. [Read more…]