Yamaha Venture
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The Yamaha Venture is a premier touring motorcycle manufactured by Yamaha from 1983-1993. Considered by many to be ahead of its time in innovations and leading edge technology. Powerful and smooth V4 engine and excellent handling resulted in what may have been the predecessor of sport touring bikes available today. There are still many of these bikes on the road around the world racking up hundreds of thousands of miles.
Yamaha resurrected the Venture Motorcycle in 1999. The Royal Star Venture had the same perky engine and transmission as the first generation Venture. But the body style was more in line with an American Cruiser type motorcycle than the sport tourer body style of the 83 to 93 years.
Venture clubs abound with big meetings every year in Europe with most countries having national clubs and of course the web brought about many online.
The Venturers, http://www.venturers.org was one of the first with members worldwide and regular meetings (Ride-ins) and more informal get-togethers throughout North America and Europe. It also has a great technical resource for all model years, http://www.venturers.org/Tech_Library/.
Other online clubs abound and also have a strong following at Venture Rider, http://www.venturerider.org again with regular meetings (Rallies) and informal get-togethers and Delphi Forums http://forums.delphiforums.com/vrider/start.
The 2008 International Venture Meet will be held in Spain, July 4th-6th http://venture-spain.com/foro/index.php?topic=251.0 and there will be Venture riders from all the European clubs as well as members of the Venturers attending from North America.
Other National Venture clubs:
United Kingdom http://www.yamahaventureclub.co.uk France http://www.ventureclubdefrance.com Norway http://www.ventureclubnorway.com Holland http://www.yamahaventureclubnederland.com Denmark http://www.ventureclub.dk Sweden http://www.algonet.se/~venturen/ Germany http://www.venture-royale-club.de
