After racing at Pikes Peak with Project 156, Victory Motorcycles knew that any production bike based on the prototype V-Twin engine would need to be something special. With this in mind, Victory sought to find a custom bike builder who might like to take this challenge – and that builder was the multi-time drag racing champion Urs Erbacher, based in Switzerland. Erbacher infuses all of his custom bikes with a European style that has global appeal. His style is clean, powerful and dynamic, and his customs turn heads. Most importantly, his customs tempt riders to simply climb on and get on the gas, just as they will with his latest creation – the Victory Ignition Concept.

Featuring a lean and muscular design, the Victory Ignition Concept represents the future of Victory Motorcycles’ production machines. The frame has the same base architecture in the prototype engine used in Project 156 – the crankcase, v-angle, rotating bottom-end, transmission and clutch set-up is all the same. The liquid-cooled four-valve engine has double overhead cams with the aim of making class-leading power.

Erbacher and his team have handmade twin headers that snake out from the cylinders into a single pipe and then in to an Akrapovic muffler. The idea is to create the shortest exhaust for maximum performance. The front and rear suspension are adjustable. Marzocchi forks stand proud at the front and Erbacher explains why: “We have used the same forks on our ‘Erbacher The One’ custom bike for the past three years. The forks are really nice to ride with and they absorb a lot on bad streets. The good thing is, we can also mount the Brembo brake on this fork and it brakes like a race bike.” Erbacher and his team fitted an Öhlins shock at the rear between the frame and the swingarm.

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