Posted on 10/15/2009 7:10:44 AM PDT by Betis70
LOL. Yeah, the price of used Sportys has dropped a bit over the past year or so with HD's "ride for free" promotion, but I meant to say $10K, not $10.
What is that supposed to mean?
what they say about no harley ever being found in a junkyard obviously didn’t go for buells. so this is how they clunker them. sad.
By ordering one of 100,000,000 possible permutations of custom equipment!
What would you think I could sell a canary yellow 2000 XLH 883 with 15K miles for in Ill Noise or nearby. Tweety is in near factory condition except a half fingernail size paint touch up on one fender. The view from eBay is not encouraging.
He’s being sarcastic; Buells were so iconoclastic, maybe they didn’t fit in with Harley’s trademarked “lone wolf/one-percenter” biker look.
Couldn’t tell if he was trying to make fun of Harley or Buell. Or both. Poor grammar killed the joke.
Indeed. The market for used Sportys has been beaten down quite a bit over the past year or so. Might be better off waiting until the economy to turn around (might have to wait until O is out of office for that though.)
Eric Buell is amazingly innovative, and the Buell/Sportster motor puts out a streetable 104hp stock and 128 with an off the shelf race kit - who knew that was even acheiveable for that motor?
The thing was, the styling (and I'm not even referring to the Blast, which was so ugly in so many ways that their showroom was usually inbetween the parts and salvage depts) was a bit too untraditional, especially for a bike that's going to sit on the same floor as a full dresser and bare boned chopper that has a good 50% chance of spending it's nights in someone's living room.
Things like having a swingarm that doubles as an oil tank tend to end up looking like an oil tank that happens to double as a swingarm.
The muffler under the engine was touted as keeping the weight low, but it was an ugly muffler, sounded like a lawn mower, and put all that heat directly under the motor and rider, then mounted a wide gas tank to make sure the heat never leaves.
I always wondered why they didn't just put that motor in a nickle plated XR750 frame, possibly slightly lengthen that frame for stability as they did with the long version of the Buell, and put a stretched teardrop tank in place of that altered car hood.
Harley could have a sub 380lb, streetable XR1200 that would look like it belongs on a Harley showroom in no time, and with minimal outlay.
I loved my XB12X. I wish I would have kept it. Hands down the best bike I ever owned and I’ve owned everything form Harleys to Hondas.
This sucks. I had planned on owning another Buell in the future. Excellant bikes. Screw Harley.
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