| Author | Message | ||
     Americanrice |
I am a member of quite a few forums. This is my favorite and the other one that I spend alot of time on is SBN (sportbikes.net). I have been a member there for about a year now and I am getting quite upset. The Buell-Bashing is out of hand, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. You can't talk reason with these posers. I have never seen a bunch of people be more afraid of or hate something just because they don't understand it. It is rediculous. They just don't get the fact that those of us who chose Buells wanted to be different. I didn't want just another CBR/GSXR. Trust me for the $10,000 I spent on the Bolt, I could have bought just about any sportbike. Sorry! I just had to blow off some steam to some listeners that would understand. | ||
| Gonen60 |
I hear you brother, But I still enjoy SBN also. | ||
| Blake |
The crotch rocket crowd will never understand us. I don't care. I'll ride and race with them just the same. What is really funny is that at the track, most of the Jap bike riders are very complimentary of my Buell. Online forums take on the character of the people that comprise them. | ||
| Tripper |
The rice posers will laugh at ya, then shake their heads as you are hanging with them through their devilish corners. The pasta crowd will scorn ya, then thank you for riding along so they could listen to the sound. Ride what you want and enjoy it. More people are coming around, but until they ride these bikes they will never 'get it'. Throw a friend your keys and infect a new Bueller. | ||
| Glitch |
It's funny, online I get a lot of ribbing. The abpms crowd has been ok, but mainly (I think) because I've been a regular there forever. But, out in the real world, I get compliments, ooos and ahhs. Except one time this guy on a SV650 was giving me $#!T, but he stopped after he saw how it(me) out performed his(him)... One guy even told me (not out right but I heard it loud and clear) he wanted one but then he wouldn't fit in anymore... So Jeremy, here's to not fitting in (I never have)! | ||
| Spike |
I know _exactly_ what you mean about SBN. Tireless negative posts towards Buells, most of which out of sheer ignorance. I got in countless aguments on that site trying to defend Buells only to get banned twice. Eventually I stopped going back. There's a lot of good sportbike-related information there, you just have to sift through so much garbage to find it. Mike L. '99 Cyclone (sold) (insert new bike here) | ||
| Americanrice |
I know. The only reason that I stay there is because of the huge volume of good sportbike information. They just don't understand the unique factor. I think it stems from bad self-esteem, that causes them to fear being different. I bet if they all had to ride a Buell for a week, 90% of them would change their tune. Oh well, you can't fight ignorance! P.S. It is good to be here at BWB  | ||
| Glitch |
Buell envy: The supposed wish of a squid or wannabe to have a Buell, postulated by Sigmund Freud as a cause of feelings of inferiority and psychic conflict. edited by glitch on July 13, 2003 | ||
| Bykergeek |
The old eSportbike.com (not sportbikes.com I think) was a pretty hostile place for Buellers. I aborted about a yr ago when posts on the Buell forum were 2/3 trash talk by non Buellers. Why can't everyone just Shut Up and Ride? | ||
| Dblhaulxb9s |
Hell yes, This is Morgan from Gunnison,CO. I am with all of you. Most of those poor boys on Jap bikes don't know what to do with all of their power anyway. I just raced a dude on an R1 and kicked his butt. It seems he was just a straight-away hero like most. And Damn does my XB9S look better. | ||
| Misato |
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| Mikej |
"I just raced a dude on an R1 and kicked his butt." You were on a track, right?, where you can go full out balls to the wall hard on, right? Winning a race on the street don't count for much.  Regardless, congrats. Think I'll slip over to sb.net and see what's new. | ||
| Dblhaulxb9s |
Hey Mikej, I was on a "street". It was a high mountain road from Durango to Pagosa Springs (Colorado if you don't know) and we were doing up to and over 120 at times (I know, be careful, that is dangerous). I know that a track is a different thing but I think keeping it together up in the mountains is a big deal. Also, it was the rider I beat. Anyone who really knows what they are doing could kick my ass on an R1, those things are stinkin' fast. Anyway, thanks for the congrats. I was psyched. | ||
| Mikej |
It is fun when you spank someone on a "lessor" bike. I used to play with squids on Ortega highway in SoCal on a little ancient 2-stroke Yahama 180twin a number of years ago. Couldn't get that thing up much over 70mph, but it loved the tighter corners. | ||
| Spike |
Speaking of outrunning people with a "lesser" bike . . . my brother in law is going to pick up his new Ducati 999 on Friday afternoon. My Cyclone is officially gone as of today so I have nothing to outrun my brother in law with. Now I am forced to go buy an XB12R so I can straighten him and that Ducati out. I wouldn't want that Duc going to his head. It's for his own good . . . really. Mike L. '99 Cyclone (sold) '04 XB12R (coming soon) '94 Turbo Miata | ||
| Kevyn |
Running the XB12 with a 999 should be interesting...I know that the Duc really comes alive after 4,000RPM's and pulls strong and clean right up to redline which is well beyond the XB's 6800... I don't think they are really in the same class 'technically' but it will be a damn fine ride anyway hearing the desmo tones complimented by the bassimo from that air cooled v-twin! Life is good ain't it?!! | ||
| Blublak |
Mike and Dbhaul.. You both must know of what I speak. A little while ago, while attending CLASS at VIR I had a chance to give a mighty GSXR 1000 the heebie jeebies. (you can see my full account of the day in the 'Tale Section/runs, funs and sums) .. It wasn't that I was faster on the straights (Lord knows my XB9 is nowhere near as quick as that flash of blue and white he was on. But a combination of the ride and the rider (yes, I know, twistin' my own grip there.. thank you, thank you.. just throw money for more tires) that took it too him in the corners.  He even ended up switching riding groups at lunch since every time I came up on him in the twisties, there seemed to be nothing he could do to shake me.. Hell, I even passed him.. a few times  (he then spanked me on the straights). Life is good, yes indeed.. Sometimes, just knowing what you and your machine are capable of is better than trying to 'teach' some people anything. On the street, I, every now and then, end up showing one of those 'straight line heros' a thing, or three about handling... and I'm not a 'race class' rider,  just a guy with a little hooligan in him.. hehehehe.. Later, | ||
| Spike |
The 999 will definitely be the more powerful bike but he'll need more than power. I've proved this with my Cyclone vs. his Bandit 1200 (which is for sale). Mike L. |
