Web site about Virago xv535 [URL]http://www.artsturm.ee/virago_535/index.html/[/URL] A 500cc street bike used to be a large middleweight motorcycle. Marlon Brando rode a 500cc Triumph Speed Twin in the seminal motorcycle movie The Wild One, which was inspired by the Hollister incident back in the 1950's. Not many outlaws today ride sweet 500 twins! Once the most competitive class in sporting street bikes (much as the 600cc class is today), the 500cc class has become sort of a sales backwater.