I think that I had read somewhere on BadWeb that the silver piped ones are Euro models.
Thanks,
I checked out some of the Buell official Euro sites and I couldn't see any pics that helped. Even if I found them, I guess that there is no guarantee that I could get them ordered here, or that the price would be OK. I think I'll just get mine coated.
While I was looking I noticed that the 2008 Firebolt was absent from the French website. They only had the X1125R in the Sportbike category.