 This is my 2005 Yamaha V-Star 650. I just bought it and I'm actually very impressed with it. Very impressed. It's got the leather saddlebags on the side there The only real custom work that's been done to it is it's got custom exhaust So it doesn't have stock exhaust stock these bikes are a little bit quiet for my taste But with this it makes it you hear it coming that's for sure. So it's a 650 And I love it. I live in the country. So I do a lot of highway driving and it handles the highway just fine The only thing I could say to critique it would be that It feels like it needs another gear. It's a five-speed and it feels like a sixth gear Would just be a little bit of help on the highway. Just get the RPMs down a little bit lower But that's just me It handles it just fine You can cruise it about 70 miles an hour. No problem It does have rev limiters on it. So, you know when you're going over I've heard people take these bikes up to like 85 miles an hour, which is 130-140 kilometers an hour. I'm not going to be taking it that fast. I'm more of a cruiser I traded in my sport bike, which was a Honda CBR 500R My first bike I traded or I sold that and I bought this because I wanted something A little slower, you know, I'm more of a cruiser type guy. I just want to putt through town Maybe go riding with some friends. Enjoy the scenery. Enjoy the ride. Enjoy the the wind on my face And I don't like to go fast anyway So I drive a truck for a living as you might have noticed from all my other content on this channel So it's not worth it for me to risk getting tickets and getting in trouble for going fast This bike keeps me out of trouble. It does everything I need it to This comes with the windshield got a little windshield fanny pack on here, which is very handy I keep like things I need to access quicker in here like my wallet and Stuff that you need to access, you know when you're fueling up This particular bike, I'm in Canada if you didn't know that by the way if you're just tuning into this video This bike was bought in the US obviously and it's in miles an hour. It's got 9,051 miles on it. I Love this this paint job this beautiful blue and these beautiful flames. They're not like over the top They're just enough to when you get up close. You're like, oh, that's nice. So this bike already did have These saddlebags on here and their leather, but they got like a hard bottom on them I like it better than the full hardcover saddlebags myself. I think it looks a little better I like the look of it better anyways. I Just had this pike polished today and I had to go down some gravel to get to our land here And clearly I'm going to have to wipe the bike down again when I get home. That's fine That's fine But it has plenty of power Riding two up on the freeway on the highway the bike will do it. No problem. It'll do it all day You're not gonna reach 80 miles an hour all day Maybe if you want to like I said, it feels like there should be another sixth gear But if you just like cruising at, you know, 70 mile an hour It's just fine. Just fine. Yeah I mean if you want to go any faster than that I mean if you live in Texas or you know out west in the US where the speed limits are 80 mile an hour or higher Yeah, you might want to get the 1100-1300 to keep up with traffic then but where I live Speed limits are 100 kilometers an hour or 60 miles an hour. So this is this is plenty And the previous owner was a co-worker of mine and they kept it in Immaculate shape. It's absolutely great. I'll let you hear the custom exhaust on here You guys are curious We go on here the the ignition is on the side here on these bikes It is carbureted. So there's a choke on the other side When the bike is cold There's a choke right here Pull it out Let the bike run for a little bit warm up. Just touch and then push it back in The fuel is right here fuel and reserve That reserve tank this bike does not have a fuel gauge Which my CBR had a fuel gauge and it was nice nice having that but I Always reset my tripometer now when I fuel And I've still got to see how far I can go on a tank of fuel, but you know once I run out I've got the reserve One of these days we'll figure that out Which makes it sound just lovely It sounds pretty mean. So yeah, that's a little tour of my 2005 Yamaha V-Star 650 and if you're wondering is the 650 big enough I think it is it depends what you want to do with it But for what I need it for highway driving in the city. It's no problem. It's pretty light. It's pretty nimble And it'll serve the drop just well, it will hit highway. Please just fine and hold it there all day So if you're looking at getting this, this would be a great starter bike This is my second bike But I pretty much I sold my CBR for the same price pretty much that I paid for this So I just swapped but I just wanted to get on to a cruiser I don't have money to buy a brand new bike right now My next bike maybe might be a Harley Davidson, but if you want to get into Harleys You know you need to bring cash, and I didn't want to spend any cash We're planning on building a house here right now So I can't spend boatloads of money right now So I got on to this cruiser and Pretty much just swapped it for my other one. 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