1KPerDay
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« on: November 20, 2009, 01:41:52 PM » |
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« on: November 20, 2009, 01:41:52 PM » |
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chornbe
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« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2009, 01:44:24 PM » |
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He's not the sunset kind of guy.  |
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Tpoppa
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« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2009, 02:37:40 PM » |
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Good Stuff!
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I can be found on any twisty backroad in SE OH or WV.
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Squidbuzz
The Dirty Banana
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Years Supported: '11
Motorcycles: 2009 Buell Ulysses
GPS: Wenatchee, WA
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Loud Pipes Give You Headaches
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« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2009, 03:47:25 PM » |
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HMM.........
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Todd
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ninegear
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« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2009, 05:55:10 PM » |
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ok i forgive harley now...errr kinda.
to me this means its only a matter of time before they put buell back on the market lol
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ninegear
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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2009, 05:57:00 PM » |
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He's not the sunset kind of guy. what do you mean? |
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Tyrroneous
Slow Attack Cow
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Motorcycles: '07 Triumph Daytona 675, 2000 SV650N, '98 XR200R, '04 CRF70, '81 PW50
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2009, 06:05:20 PM » |
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That is good news!! |
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2009, 06:05:20 PM » |
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tankhead
I took the road less traveled and it has made all the difference.
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One time and one time only.
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« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2009, 06:45:53 PM » |
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F#CK YEAH!!!! Go get'em Erik. Congrats to him and for keeping the same address and hopefully most of the elves.
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Harley-Davidson, Inc. has just announced today that following the company’s recent decision to discontinue the Buell motorcycle product line, Erik Buell, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Buell Motorcycle Company, will leave the company to establish Erik Buell Racing, an independent motorcycle race shop that will specialize in making 1125R-based racing motorcycles and parts
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scramblerracer123
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« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2009, 07:01:11 PM » |
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Good news, but it brings up more questions
Will they be allowed to race in AMA? Don't they need to be based on production bikes? How does that work when it is a production bike then discontinued?
Will DMG make a new class to allow full on factory race bikes and do away with the production based racing?
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2DFlyer
Wheelie Conflicted
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Years Contributed: '09, '10
Years Supported: '11
Motorcycles: '04 R1150RT '99 ZRX1100 - going, going...gone
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« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2009, 07:58:34 PM » |
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Cool. But now what am I gonna do with the shirt?  |
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'05 Duc ST3 '99 ZRX1100 x 2 '02 883C '98 PC800 '82 JX750J Maxim '82 GS6
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rhpaw
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« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2009, 11:11:54 PM » |
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Ok, I'm pretty happy now. I can drink my kool-aid with the hope that they're cooking another batch out back.
someday..
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Brad1445
Brad to the Ley
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Years Contributed: '06
Motorcycles: 2008 Hayabusa - 2008 Ducati HyperMotard - 2009 KTM 505 - 2009KLXSM - 2004 Buell Firebolt
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« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2009, 11:40:08 PM » |
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Impressive web site, continuing the the high standards the 1125 has set since its introduction in 2007.  Same designer? |
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chornbe
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2009, 04:30:01 AM » |
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what do you mean?
not the kind of guy to just fade off into the sunset never to be heard from again. |
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« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2009, 06:20:11 AM » |
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squeezer
Squirrelly Geezer
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Years Contributed: '07, '08, '09, '10
Years Supported: '11
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« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2009, 06:33:43 AM » |
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Oddy enough, Danny Eslik who won last year on the Rossmeyer HD Buell just signed this past week to ride a Suzuki next year...
Thread jack: Did he sign with Yoshimuri? I'm glad Buell's doing something with his own bikes. I'm still bummed his ideas are not going to bikes the rest of us might ride some day. |
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"Always be yourself, unless you suck." -- Joss Whedon
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Rogue
Menace to Society
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Motorcycles: Buell and Honda
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« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2009, 07:48:55 AM » |
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Foregive H-D?
Never. Once again they have shown us their self-centered acts. You think they're doing this because they want to help Erik? They want to absorb some of the stuff Erik Buell learns from racing without having to support it directly. They won't even release the rights to the man who created it all. H-D top executives should be ashamed of themselves for taking away the only American Sportbike company from Americans....the same ones they want to sell their pig-heavy and outdated cruisers to. Buell held the keys to H-D's future growth and they just cut off that segment so they can continue to sell us slow, heavy, low horsepower bikes for the beer-gut and handlebar tassle crowd.
H-D's idea of a performance bike = XR1200.
Lower horsepower than the Lightning.
Heavier than the Lightning.
Old fashioned styling.
More expensive than the Lightning.
How many did they sell?
Why?
Because the market said, no thanks. Once the lovers of the original XR bikes got theirs, sales dried up. DUH? H-D is NOT listening to the market. H-D is not listening to their own history (XL-CR/XR1000). That's because whenever they try to sell something that they claim has performance, it falls short of the performance market's expectations.
Erik needs to break away from H-D and hook up with another group of investors to start up independently again. I say he should name it EBM Inc. Erik Buell Motorcycles, Inc. Market the bike's with his first and last name to avoid the selfish copyright claws of H-D. H-D won't be able to start up Buell again without Erik and they know it. C'mon Erik! You can do it!
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Brad1445
Brad to the Ley
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Motorcycles: 2008 Hayabusa - 2008 Ducati HyperMotard - 2009 KTM 505 - 2009KLXSM - 2004 Buell Firebolt
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« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2009, 11:35:53 AM » |
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Tell Erik not to let the Pods hit him in the butt on the way out.  |
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ibppjr
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« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2009, 12:30:44 PM » |
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That's awesome. I'm glad we'll get to see them on the track again this coming season.
And I also am glad I ride an 1125R which doesn't look or act like every cloneasaki. Screw conventionalism.
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Squidbuzz
The Dirty Banana
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Loud Pipes Give You Headaches
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« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2009, 02:08:10 PM » |
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Brad, enough. We know you don't like the pods, get over it.
Somewhere some town has lost their idiot and we unfortunately have found him. =/
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Todd
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Brad1445
Brad to the Ley
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Motorcycles: 2008 Hayabusa - 2008 Ducati HyperMotard - 2009 KTM 505 - 2009KLXSM - 2004 Buell Firebolt
GPS: Denver
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« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2009, 02:31:26 PM » |
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Pick the thing you love most in life
For me, Buell Bikes in the colorado mountains.
Now imagine your dream is trashed due to sheer stupidity. I need to mourn a little while longer. Probably spring when KTM sends the new 990 to the US.
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