Well...I’m not going to sit here and piss on buell’s grave...
Buell WAS the only american bike to offer an “alternative” to the japanese sport bikes....how’s that...
Forgetting Triumph, Aprilia, Ducati and BMW, are we?
Er, hit send too soon. Those are alternatives to the Japanese bikes, though not American made.
if you want American made, there are any number of custom builders who can give you what you want, that’ll actually perform, with a Harley-pattern engine that wasn’t a boat anchor (because it’d been heavily modified), for about the same money or less.
Sorry, not buying it. To be an "alternative", it would have to be in the same league as other sport bikes. Buell was not even in the same Sport, much less the same League.
I still contend it had too many import parts to be a "true" American-made bike. Perhaps we are jaded with all the Toyotas, et. al., that are "made in America". (/soapbox)