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Rkc00
| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 10:18 am: | 
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Will be calling them at lunch |
Rkc00
| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 04:41 pm: |
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Toona,
They said it ran fine but the battery is shot. Sounded like I am not getting it with a good battery. |
Court
| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 05:10 pm: |
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>>>>Sounded like I am not getting it with a good battery.
Cool.
For what you are going to do with that bike, I'd just remove the battery.
Battery goes bad after 15 years . . . . what has America manufacturing come to?
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Nittanyxt
| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 06:08 pm: |
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I'll try to get to Apple late morning,if that doesn't work for some reason I'll see you guys at Clem's. Toona has my cell #. |
Jumbo_petite
| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 08:39 pm: |
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Leaving Fawn Grove 8ish hope to be at apple by noon |
Jumbo_petite
| | Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 10:39 pm: |
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Ratbuell
I'll be heading back to Va Beach sometime Sunday Morning, Leaving from Fawn Grove Pa.If you want to se the S2 as I head back Baltimore area is not that big of a detour and I can swing by.
JP |
Toona
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 - 12:59 am: |
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>>>>Sounded like I am not getting it with a good battery.
Double cool! Even more factory original parts to display! Nothing else on the bike was changed, why swap out the battery?} |
Rkc00
| | Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 - 07:17 pm: |
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In Philly. |
Rkc00
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 06:42 am: |
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Leaving Philly |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 11:30 am: |
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Mike just reported that they put in a new battery and gave him the original.
This S1 folks . . . is a FIND.
It hasn't been touched since it left the crating department in East Troy.
There are 7 recalls . . . . Mike has all the documentation and I'm getting him the correspondence to and from the feds concerning the recalls so he'll have it. I also, if I can find them, have a box of the PRAY FOR PAVEMENT books which I **think** we 1996.
The bike is a perfect BRAND NEW 1996 Buell S1 Lightning.
I hate to tell that dealer I'd have given twice that for it.
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Rkc00
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 02:36 pm: |
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Here is a quick shot of the S1
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Court
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 05:10 pm: |
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PRAY FOR PAVEMENT |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 05:27 pm: |
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Ratbuell
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 08:54 pm: |
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JP - PM sent.
Court - please, don't you dare tell us that the bike Mike bought IS the bike in the ad....that would be very annoying to me 
Congratulations to both new owners, that's great stuff! |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 09:04 pm: |
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And Michael - if, somehow, Court doesn't hook you up....
The small booklet is mint; the large one has been 'enjoyed' but is in excellent shape, and the postcard is stamped by Orange County HD in Cali as a return address, but that's it.
Yours if you desire, just send me an address
I'll dig through my pile (which is nothing like Court's, I'm sure) and see if I have anything else that might compliment your growing collection |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 09:33 pm: |
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Hahahaha. . I think I still have a case of them still wrapped in plastic. But all I have are the large and small books.
Tina Daniels at Laughlin-Constable was behind the PRAY FOR PAVEMENT campaign and it was an absolutely stunning book.
She'd made her name doing advertising for companies like Oshkosh kids clothing. Steve Laughlin, himself quite a Buell aficionado, had a nice ad agency that skyrocketed to national prominence with they did the Buell (41) presidential campaign. Several years ago Laughlin-Constable opened a NYC office.
Great folks . . GREAT MATERIAL.
I was sorry to see HD dump them simply to go with someone's "friend of a friend".
By the way . . the bike in the photos is not the one Mike got. The photo bike had to be completed long before the day Erik and I had breakfast with Steve Anderson, then a reporter, and prepared to unveil the 1st S1 in San Diego that morning . . . about July . . somewhere around the 20th, 1995.
Erik had to work . . . me? . . I jumped on an S2 and headed to Palomar Mountain . . . parked the S2 at Mothers, at the foot of Canfield Drive, took the bags off and tossed the keys to anyone who wanted a ride. Kind of the intro to what would eventually become the "demo ride".
The photo bike lacked some of the detail that was likely on the finished product. Most notably the rearranged side stand as is evident on the High Voltage Yellow one of the cover of the July issue of Cycle World.
Funnier story was the next year . . . the M2 shock wasn't ready and when they shot the ad campaign they used an S1 rear shock. Of course, the S1 had the remote rebound adjustment, the M2 didn't.
I'm sitting at the factory one day and a guy called. . . "hey, I got the wrong rear shock". I explained to him that the M2 didn't have the remote rebound. He told me "sure it does, I'm looking at the catalog".
Hahahahaha. . he was right!
I sent him an S1 shock and never heard a word from another soul about it.
. . . but then . . you knew that, right?
You are going to be at Homecoming the night Erik, Dave and I tell stories, right? |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 - 09:47 pm: |
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Drats. . . I just thought . . now I'm going to be called a "pompous know it all" again. . . read it quick Joe and I'll delete it.
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Ratbuell
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 10:07 am: |
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Who calls you a know it all?
Is it your fault that you were lucky enough to be around for some very cool, very influential happenings (and usually with a camera and that near-photographic memory)??
I'm gonna try like hell to be at HC. Hopefully it works out better than Daytona did, and with all the other crap in my life right now...
Lets just say I hope like hell I can make it.
And somehow I figured you'd be able to set Mike up with some lit, but dug through my cute little mini-pile just in case I had something he needed.
JP will be here in a couple hours with the S2 so I can drool. Do you need photos or details of anything, or did Mike get you covered? I made sure the 50D has a full charge and an empty card.... |
Court
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 10:48 am: |
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I still need a close up inside the front fairing . . I'm looking for detail of the headstock between the upper and lower bearing races facing forward. |
1313
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 01:39 pm: |
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I still need a close up inside the front fairing . . I'm looking for detail of the headstock between the upper and lower bearing races facing forward.
Court, if you're going where I think you are with this, as far as I can tell from looking at the pics of the S2 it does not have the fairing bracket stay.
But then again, you are probably already at the same point I am an wondering if it has the tab welded on the headtube or if it needs the Aluminum casting/installation kit.
From my experience I'd have to lay money on it needing the whole Aluminum casting/installation kit. If it had the welded on tab on the frame, then it would have the fairing bracket stay already installed...
In some ways this will be a test of my memory,
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Court
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 01:45 pm: |
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You nailed it .... It'll tell us a bit about this bike and its history..
The first retrofits had the wrapped bracket from bar stock didn't they? |
1313
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 02:49 pm: |
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The first retrofits had the wrapped bracket from bar stock didn't they?
CORRECTAMUNDO!
That is an accurate statement - in the form of a question
1313 |
Jumbo_petite
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 07:01 pm: |
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There was a fairing support lit in the trunk. It had some plastic coated hook shaped rods a clamp type bracket and support beam/arm.
Ratbuell got a picture of thatwith his phone |
Court
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 07:25 pm: |
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That's the one.
B ... Did you design that? |
1313
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 08:18 pm: |
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B ... Did you design that?
No, it wasn't me. Earlier today I thought Derek had, but then a few seconds later I questioned if Bret didn't have a hand in it. So I can't profess 100% either way as to who did it.
Like I said - a test of my memory - and it seems I've FAILED...
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Ratbuell
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 09:03 pm: |
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Actually I missed getting a photo of the support setup 
I *did* get pics, though, of the screens in the tail section. They matched the screens in the front fairing...but don't match my bike. The ones in JP's bike look like...expanded metal chicken mesh from Home Depot. I have no doubt they're original to the bike, but that's an oddity to me. That, and the decal that I've never seen before (and my S2 has - or so I thought - all its frame decals intact).
First, the decal. It's positioned above the left peg, you can see the top of the shift boomerang in the bottom of the photo:
Next, the fairing screens. Mine match front to back; his match front to back; they just don't match each other. Odd.
Mine:
His:
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Court
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 09:11 pm: |
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Interesting that the compliance sticker used Buell part numbers before they got saddled with that illogical HD numbering system.
Insert screens in the blue bike appear original. The red were the replacements we had made. I have a sheet of them somewhere.
Cool pics. |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 11:58 pm: |
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Huh. I always assumed my screens were originals, because I think the S3 had the same material with some sort of Buell logo in the center of each panel...
I guess you learn something new every day.
I'm done for tomorrow, too - I learned two things today. The screens, and I learned that you can take one 1992 Jeep 4.0 six cylinder with a hole in a piston, replace that one piston with a used piston with new rings - one piston only, mind you - button it back up and it'll purr like a kitten.
Not bad for a $400 beater truck |
Court
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 07:51 am: |
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>>>>Huh. I always assumed my screens were originals
The S3 screens were different than the S2. Here are the replacements. They were delivered in sheets about 2'x3' and they had to be popped out like model car parts.
See . . .I really am a pompous know it all . . .
What a dick that guy was for saying that. |
Court
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 07:57 am: |
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And . . . . back on topic. . . .
This tells me the bike was built following the recall which changed the "C Clips" to the nut and bolt arrangement. Interesting recall as it had nothing to do with any shortcoming or flaw in the bike . . . simply the inability of many
Harley-Davidson mechanics to read and follow directions We had to go back and design under the "dumbest possible mechanic" theory.
This tells me the frame as a later in the year S1 frame . . . .
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1313
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 09:46 am: |
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Joe (Ratbuell),
If my memory serves (obviously it failed above) the screens were changed at model year changeover. The original '95 ones are what the Black Sapphire S2 has on them and the ones on your red bike are the '96 version. I believe that Joe's S2 - even though it's a 1995 - has 1996 bodywork on it (at least the front fairing and tail section). If it does have 1996 bodywork, this is a GOOD thing! There is a way to tell the difference between the 1995 (Polyester resin) and 1996 (Epoxy resin) bodywork, but a little off topic for this discussion.
Of course, my memory could be off and the screens were just a running change...
1313 |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Monday, March 21, 2011 - 09:29 pm: |
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I think I recall seeing a workorder on my bike for bodywork replacement due to paint issues, same time as the bags and lowers were added...I'll have to dig that up again.
Court - I remember that the S2 and S3 screens are different...but I thought they had the same pattern as my S2's screens, only with a logo in them. |
Phelan
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 02:28 am: |
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So 1313, does one year S2 bodywork have more resilience to bubbling than the other? |
Beags
| | Posted on Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 12:47 am: |
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Yes 96 being a better year |
