Motorcyclist: Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Custom replaces Vuclan 800 Custom?
February 4, 2007
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So I received the March 2007 edition of Motorcyclist today, and on page 29 it mentions how Kawasaki is introducing the Vulcan 900 Custom. You can tell the writer, Andrew Cherney, seems to have a disdain for the Kawasaki Vulcan series when he says “C’mon, Kawasaki’s new Vulcan 900 Custom is practically a carbon copy of the phatter Vulcan 900 Classic“. Anyway he goes on to say that the 900 Custom is replacing the Vulcan 800 Custom….. What Vulcan 800 Custom? There was never a Vulcan 800 Custom. Kawasaki produced the VN800A model, the Vulcan 800 Classic (or B model) and the Vulcan 800 Drifters. The Vulcan 900 Custom in my opinion is trying to replace the Vulcan 800 A model’s chopperesque front end (although with mag wheels). What gives? Shouldn’t motorcycle journalists today at least put some effort into being correct? They are as close to an authoritative source as we have in this industry.
