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Arlen Ness Custom Has All the Bells and Whistles

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hard to say where to start.&nbsp; I bought a new VIctory Vision at the Arlen Ness store in Dublin, after spending a few hours agonizing with Arlen's brother Keven, who actually handled the sale. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The bike is black, of course, with reverse flames in a special mix metallic paint that constantly changes color with the light.&nbsp; When I went back to pick up the motorcycle, I thought I made a mistake, because the paint went to silver, and had no other color.&nbsp; Not to worry, moving it outside made it come alive, again.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pipes are black chrome, billet aluminum floating discs, special Arlen Ness chrome wheels, all the flat aluminum taken off, powder coated black, and replaced, lots of chrome bits.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Very intimidating to move up to an over 800 pound motorcycle.&nbsp; Took a few hours to begin feeling really at home, and I will spend some time working on low speed parking lot type stuff.&nbsp; As everyone who has ridden one says, surprisingly good handling, and much easier to ride than it looks.&nbsp; Very comfortable seat, electric windshield that goes up and down, excellent stereo.&nbsp; I may experiment with windshield heights, however, because for me the standard windshield sends wind up my lower back, which may be good on hot days, but is otherwise a minus.&nbsp; Actually pulled up on the bottom of my jacket.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Adjustable foot controls are another big plus for me, and the handlebar comes so far back that there is no noticeable reach.&nbsp; Low seat height makes getting feet on the ground a non-issue.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The balance is good, another contributor to making life easy.<br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; More to come as I get used to this, but everyone seems to love this ride.<br /> 10 application/xml false Arlen Ness Kevin Ness Motorcycle Reverse Flames Victory Vision Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mpadway 63.205.182.177 false true false false true 201650 false false true false false false true 106835 blog blogsite/MichaelPadway/web