2013 Victory Cross Country Engine Problems

“As I was conducting a pre-ride check, I turned the engine on, and within a few seconds, it shut off by itself. This repeated a couple of more times, and then the engine would not start. After another couple of attempts, even the lights and all the electrical components shut off with no response. The bike had completely died. I had it towed to the southern california motorcycle Victory dealer, and they diagnosed that the starter solenoid had melted, and the circuit breaker had blown out. …”

“Bike is prone to stalling either from downshifting or opening the throttle such as starting out from a stop or low RPM shift. I've put about 200 miles on this bike and noticed the bike has stalled more than 10 times while pulling from a stop, merging into traffic, or making a turn. The sudden loss of power changes the center of gravity and balance on the bike and in one case I had to quickly brace the bike while bringing the bike under control. The end effect was the bike crushed my foot under the exhaust as the bike was in a lean while turning. …”

“I was merging onto a highway leaned into the curve running about 45 MPH when the engine popped and died. When this happened it locked up the rear tire causing the back end of the motorcycle to skid around and when it caught traction it flipped the bike in the opposite side of the way I was leaning launching me into the road. I was applying throttle gently when this occurred and the RPM's were around 3000 at the time. And I was not shifting gears at the time. After a couple of attempts I was able to get the engine started again but the bike made a scrubbing sound if I moved it. …”

“c-clip used to hold transmission gears in place has dislodged from the groove it is supposed to be locked into, allowing the gears to travel more than they are supposed to do, which could result in a transmission lockup and subsequent, potentailly, catastrophic accident.”

“The contact owns a 2013 Victory Cross Country motorcycle. The contact stated that while driving 5 MPH and downshifting, the motorcycle stalled causing the contact and passenger to fall off the motorcycle. In addition, both the contact and the passenger sustained minor injuries. The failure recurred on twelve occasions. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who was unable to duplicate the failure. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 1,200. Updated 08/27/14 updated 09/16/2014”