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Buelltours
Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 01:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

saw this at a dealer in Germany. Never heard of a limited edition XB. Sales tactics? :-)

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Firebolt020283
Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 01:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Never heard of it. But I do notice it has the decals from an m2 on it and not the decals from a firebolt.
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Froggy
Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 01:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Never heard of it either, but I have seen car dealers do similar "special editions" to help sales
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Spiderman
Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 02:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Never made by Buell.

That is a dealer 'special' edition.

You can tell by the trophy shop plauqe, (looks like they got it from Things Rememberd) as stated above the M2,X1,S3,S1 logos.
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Badrap
Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 02:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Looks like a blue metalic paint job with the double white stripes down the middle.
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Spiderman
Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 02:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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1313
Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 10:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It's fairly common for the larger, better known dealers in Germany to make special edition Buell's. How soon I forget, the previous sentence should be in past tense now.

Buell Hannover did quite a few different XB's over the years, for example. Quite a few of the bikes I saw at the MSM's I attended were actually dealer special editions and not owner customizations.

In Germany a stock Buell is an oddity as most are highly customized,
1313
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Greg_e
Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 11:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That raised lettering on the airbox is the same as I have on my 03 except mine is orange for now.
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Delta_one
Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 12:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

+1 greg_e
I have those letters in chrome fairly sure they are stock 03 letters


(Message edited by delta_one on March 24, 2010)
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 01:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

you can tell they are not the 03 stock letters by the bottom you see how your American motorcycles section is rounded. The Tuber sticker that says American motorcycles is rectangle.

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Greg_e
Posted on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 02:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Mine doesn't have the American Motorcycles on it, but it is missing a bunch of the other stuff too.

To me they are only a template now, just need to remove them so I can cut out the black reflective material and stick it on. It will then be white, gray/silver, and black for every part, a completely monochrome bike and rider.
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Delta_one
Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 03:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

if the stickers are not stock on my XB I would love to know who made them because they are damn skippy. I personally love that it says "XB9S" in black under the "American motorcycles" in white, and that it flips up perfectly to encapsulate the bottom of the BUELL lettering.
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Swordsman
Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 09:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That's a pretty lame gimmick.

~SM
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 11:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Delta I do not think yours are stock however the American motorcycles decal is the same shape as all 03 later decals until they stop putting it on there.
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Firebolt020283
Posted on Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 12:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

correction delta it is the 2003 xb9s decal.
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