| Author | Message | ||
     Johnparts |
so there I was at balance point last night front end starting coming down and I grabbed to much throttle to bring it back up and whoops bike falls and I break my finger and trash the left side of my 2005 xb12r with 3200 miles on it thankfully I work for harley so I'll get it fixed up right away for a decent price | ||
| Mou5e |
i believe they call that a run on sentence  hope the finger heals soon and you get the bike back together. | ||
| Fullpower |
hmmmmm. sorry about that. perhaps a smaller, cheaper dirtbike would be more fun to play games on? for myself, i find a lot of fun in thrashing a XR250, even ran it in the 125 novice and vet B classes a few times at a couple local motocross tracks. lots of fun. use my XB for riding to and from work, and some weekend road trips. seems like it makes sense to me to have a couple different bikes for different missions. | ||
| Johnparts |
I have a honda fifty I practice wheelies on also but the big bike had to go down eventually | ||
| Mrvvrroomm |
It always brings a little tear to my eye when another virgin loses his cherry. Good to know you're ok for the most part. Keep practicing. Infact, now's the time to practice...while she's ugly. | ||
| Daves |
Glad you are ok. | ||
| Johnparts |
I did it in a parking lot despite everones advise to go out on the highway and try it | ||
| Wahmbush |
John...How often have you looped the honda 50 that I didn't know you have?  | ||
| Buellin_ri |
Johnparts, did the same thing to mine last week in a parking lot. Didn't break my finger, but busted up the left side of the bike. Good luck rebuilding and healing. | ||
| Dooley |
how are you guys doing your wheelies power or clutch? | ||
| Kdan |
how are you guys doing your wheelies power or clutch? Poorly.  | ||
| Buelltroll |
both | ||
| Tripper |
I read somewhere tha Erik Buell hisself just did the same thing. It's all in good fun... ... till somebody breaks a rib. | ||
| Lovematt |
That thing on Erik was on the ULY...apparently. It turned out there was bottled water in one or more of the hard luggage bags and it moved when the bike changed angles...that cause the bike to move in a way not expected and so "something" happened. (Message edited by lovematt on October 23, 2005) | ||
| Court |
That thing on Erik was on the ULY...apparently. It turned out there was bottled water in one or more of the hard luggage bags and it moved when the bike changed angles... Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh | ||
| Lovematt |
?????????????? | ||
| Wahmbush |
thread jack? and what size of bottled water in a hard bag would shift that much weight to loop a bike???? | ||
| Lovematt |
Alright I give up...I believe I read that in either Fuell or another magazine. From what I remember it was a package of many water bottles. Don't mean to upset anyone...just conveying what have read...I know I certainly wouldn't make up anything like that. If I am wrong then I will own up to it...I just remember something about it is all. (Message edited by lovematt on October 23, 2005) | ||
| Court |
It was not a Uly. . . end of discussion. . . I was never here.  | ||
| Lovematt |
If I am wrong then I am wrong. | ||
| Buellin_ri |
WTF??? | ||
| Johnb |
yep, i heard they loaded up all bags with lead bars and water bottles to try to get the ulysses seat height down!  | ||
| Tripper |
I think you read it on this site. But I could be wrong if Court wants me to be. Don't remember nuthin. Did somebody say NYC cruise a 3 am? Are tubers still allowed at a Buell event? How bout old grey haired fat tube riders? | ||
| Court |
>>>Are tubers still allowed at a Buell event? I am soon going to have THE tuber from hell! Aaron is hard at work on the Buell Phoenix project. | ||
| Perry |
Yeah, uh, same thing here! When I crashed my bike it was because I had some water bottles... and uh... some tools... in the bags, and uh, they like shifted or something so I went down and it was totally not my fault at all and happened ONLY because of the water bottles and stuff.... yeah... that's it! | ||
| Buellin_ri |
When I looped mine a couple of days ago I think I saw a guy drinking a bottle of water. At the time I thought it was just me and I screwed up, but know it's all making sense. It must have been that guy with the bottle of waters fault. |
