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Paint_shaker
| | Posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 - 11:01 pm: | 
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Not what I would do to a Buell.... But it still looks bad AZZ and I can appreciate the custom aspect of it!!! |
Diablobrian
| | Posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 - 11:32 pm: |
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Lets see......Passion, ingenuity, attention to detail, imagination, and more passion, that's what
I see when I look at this bike.
I don't see anything to criticize, I love to see what other people think is "the perfect Buell"
For many my bike with the full fairing is not their cup-o-tea, but for me....ahhhhhh
So please guys, feast your eyes and enjoy it. It would be a BORING world if we all liked
exactly the same things exactly the same way.
(Message edited by diablobrian on May 23, 2008) |
Ochoa0042
| | Posted on Friday, May 23, 2008 - 11:39 pm: |
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that is SICK!!!! the rear brake is ingeneous, two ZTL's omg!!! |
Tommy5144
| | Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 08:31 am: |
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personally I find that to be one of the best custom buell's ive ever seen. I like everything about it except the headlight which isn't really my style. I wish I could afford to fund a project like that. |
Vdubfro
| | Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 09:23 am: |
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If the last pick is him actually riding it home from the bike show, then I give him props. to many trailer queens at the shows. Trailers are for boats. |
Snowscum
| | Posted on Saturday, May 24, 2008 - 05:01 pm: |
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Wouldn't take much to make a welding jig to mount those blocks to a stock rim. |
Expatriate
| | Posted on Monday, May 26, 2008 - 09:02 pm: |
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THAT'S Fng COOOOL, I like that better than the Hellbender, the only way that could be any cooler is if it had a 240 rear tire kit. I think I actually saw this bike a couple of years ago but I may be mistaken. I remember for sure seeing the rear brake on the sprocket. The dual front discs are sooo cool too |
Blake
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 05:21 pm: |
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Extra front brake is overkill. Should have just gone with the 8-pot caliper upgrade which would have saved a bunch of unsprung mass and greatly enhanced the view of the left side of the bike IMHO. |
Glitch
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 07:17 pm: |
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The bike was finished before the ZTL2 was released to the public.
I'm with you though, overkill.
But I guess that's the idea behind a lot of customs. |
M1combat
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 - 07:40 pm: |
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To be honest... I would have done the same with the front brake on THAT bike  . One ZTL is quite enough, but on that bike two is very sweet.
The reason you wouldn't use the stock wheel for a dual setup is that the spokes would hit the caliper on the left side.
I think he did it just right myself. I still prefer a stock Firebolt with engine work but that's just my style. For a custom I feel that's the best one on the planet. |
Swordsman
| | Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 11:15 am: |
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Amen! I wouldn't want to ride it (I like my riding position a little more upright), but it LOOKS incredible.
The posters that keep bashing the technical "necessities" are being a little self-righteous. Everything on God's green Earth doesn't have to be purpose oriented. There's this little thing called art.........
~SM |
Sethbuchbinder
| | Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 03:39 pm: |
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The bike was built By Brian Peterson of Middlesex NJ in conjunction with Pete from www.Grandstanddesigns.com (a Badweb sponsor). Having ridden this bike, I can assure you that it is a joy to ride. The handling and agility are still pure Buell. The front breaks are very strong and offer great feel and don’t add any perceivable heft to the front end. The single ZTL is more than enough for any street riding your ever going to do but it doesn’t look custom. The rear break also has lots of bite due to the mechanical advantage it has over a rim mounted rotor. It was moved there to show unique thinking and to keep the swing arm clean looking and it accomplishes this well. Again stock rear breaks don’t make a custom bike.
Brian was not trying to re-invent the Buell, Just to create one that people will notice. It is 100% functional and well executed with heaps of creativity and ingenuity. Those who cannot appreciate a functional show bike for being just that, probably need more help than the internet can offer. Besides, if the bike didn’t have unique front and rear breaks, suspension and swing arm, bodywork and lights, it would be a plain old red XB of some type and you’d all be saying how its just like all the others.
If you don’t like it, Go build your own.
Custom bikes are often about taking things to extremes even if it means deviating from the best possible engineering or performance avenue. Look at anything coming out of WCC, OCC, Borgets, etc
Again, I rode it, it rides great. YMMV
Seth |
Rubberdown
| | Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 03:52 pm: |
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AWESOME! |
Xbcrazy
| | Posted on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 11:04 pm: |
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Hey Seth, Thanks for jumping in since you are one of the very few who has actually ridden Bryan's bike.
The other thing not yet mentioned here is the fact that we used this bike to identify and gauge interest in future production parts. Similiar to a "concept car" that Detroit would debut at a International Car Show, GSD featured some ideas on this bike. The consumer response has helped dictate the general direction of future projects.
We are looking forward to completing production on a few of those projects shortly and should have a few trick parts ready to go by the time we leave for Buell's 25th in July.
Pete
GrandStand Designs |
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