I had a vstar before I sold it, had no problems riding 2 up. Funny though, back in the 70's when I was married me and my husband rode 2 up all over the east on a yammie 500, we thought we really had something when we moved up to the 750. Now bikes are almost as big as cars.
My first one was a virago 750, even though it was lighter the 1100 was very easy to ride and manuver. Here are a couple pics of mine. You can see the roadhouse 2in1 pipes I had put on it in the one pic. Oh, be warned that in order to change the oil you must remove the pipes, up there by the filter, I put an oil filter relocation kit on mine so I could just spin a harley filter on and off, there was no taking those roadhouse pipes off everytime the oil needed changing. Kind of a pissy design. Also there are some starter issues with some of them. Some bikes had kickback that eventually tore up the starter. It was supposably fixed in the later models but I heard it was really just a beefed up starter and not really fixed. Oh well, every bike has some kind of nit picky design flaw. Here are my pics.
Here I am on it, it's not a good pic but it will give everyone something to make fun of.
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