The Warrior offers enough torque and cornering clearance for serious back-road fun.įinally, the Warrior gets new braided-steel clutch and throttle cables in clear sleeves. And with many aftermarket companies now offering matching wheels and belt-drive pulleys, Yamaha has pre-empted them by now supplying the Warrior with matching “supersport-inspired” five-spoke cast wheels and pulleys instead of its old three-spoke wheels. For starters (or perhaps “stoppers”), it’s equipped with new radial-mounted front brake calipers that provide more positive braking. The bike we test here is the Midnight Warrior, the all-black version, which gets several significant updates for 2006. When the higher-performance Warrior version of the Road Star was introduced three years later, it had been bored to 97.0mm but carried the same stroke, which resulted in a 1,670cc displacement, or 102 cubic inches. We dyno tested it at 53.3 horsepower at 3,800 rpm, and an impressive 84.5 lb-ft of torque at 2,300 rpm. The Road Star was introduced for 1999 as a mellow cruiser with an air-cooled, 48-degree, 1,602cc V-twin engine having a bore and stroke of 95.0 x 113.0mm. It’s based upon the standard Road Star, but has many upgraded function-oriented features. One of the most impressive machines in this new gens Yamaha’s Road Star Warrior, which first appeared in 2002.

In other words, they’re more functional versions of cruisers, bikes that start out where many cruiser owners end up after spending months and thousands of additional dollars working on their bikes. For the last several years, some of the major manufacturers have been offering what have come to be called “power cruisers.” They’re variations on cruisers, often with V-twin engines and high styling, but with a higher level of power and performance, better brakes and suspension, and often with enhanced cornering clearance for those who used to scrape pegs and still would like to scrape a little floorboard. I’d like to just cruise, but on the other hand I’m not sure a cruiser would satisfy me if it had too many performance limitations. “I’ve been riding sportbikes for years, and now that I’m getting older I want to slow down a bit.

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