{"id":3034,"date":"2009-03-09T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2009-03-09T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T18:51:01","slug":"riding-yamahas-v-max-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=3034","title":{"rendered":"Riding Yamaha&#8217;s V-Max in the real world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3035\" title=\"vmax\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/03\/vmax.jpg\" alt=\"vmax\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/vmax.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/vmax-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I thought it would be out of scale, like a Hummer at a drive-in, but within a few minutes of collecting it Yamaha&#8217;s second-generation V-Max demonstrated enough poise and low-speed controllability to slice through the 5pm traffic like a bike half its size.<\/p>\n<p>And it had enough instantaneous acceleration to grab the gaps before the car drivers even knew they were there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d ridden the V-Max on the SA launch at Tarlton drag strip, which showed the assembled scribes that it has awe-inspiring acceleration and decent brakes (thank goodness) but not much else, so I was keen to see how it would handle the real world where the roads aren&#8217;t always straight &#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motoring.co.za\/index.php?fArticleId=4878580&amp;fSectionId=923&amp;fSetId=381\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it would be out of scale, like a Hummer at a drive-in, but within a few minutes of collecting it Yamaha&#8217;s second-generation V-Max demonstrated enough poise and low-speed controllability to slice through the 5pm traffic like a bike half its size. And it had enough instantaneous acceleration to grab the gaps before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3034\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}