| Author | Message | ||
     Cyclonemick |
Over the weekend I attended the 2009 Moto Gp Race in Indianpolis. What a great time! Good racing, lots of fans, Great displays, But Missing was a Representation of BUELL!! I can't Believe that Buell did not have a display up!! There was a large crowd of Young Sportbike Enthusiats who at the time Buell seems to be targeting!! I really think Buell dropped the ball from Marketing standpoint and I was personallly disapointed because I Love Buells so much! | ||
| Spatten1 |
Good point, I read attendance on Sunday was 75,000. I don't know what displays cost, but that is a good number of rabid fans to disply to. | ||
| Dalton_gang |
I went to the same event last year and Buell did an excellent job making sure that everyone was aware of their existence. They also had a ton of bikes both at their tent and at the demo trailer for everyone to "make out with". I guess Buell is cutting back on expenses just like the rest of us who are stuck in this black hole. | ||
| Babired |
hey guys I don't know how many demo fleets Buell has but they were out in Colorado for the AMA women's conference from the 19th to 23 for the ladies. Maybe that's why. K | ||
| Rainman |
AMA womens' conference? I thought racing and sportbikes were the only things that mattered ..... | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
AMA womens' conference? Women are to "Friendly" to ride the new Buells.... They can ride last years models... but not the new ones! | ||
| Court |
>>>AMA womens' conference? I thought racing and sportbikes were the only things that mattered ..... Actually . . you likely saw Buell and Harley-Davidson's best side . . since a significant number of the folks who have passed through Buell (i.e. Leslie Prevish, and Laura) are with "Women's Issues" now . . . The good news is that, after 11 years, we got Diane back. | ||
| Fresnobuell |
Great case in point...it was ONLY an ad campaign. Buell was and still is Buell. the sky was not falling down... | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Missed Opportunity? I thought that was when somebody farted and you say: "Missed a good opportunity to take a crap"..........  | ||
| Cyclonedon |
I think that BMC should rethink their advertising campaign and have a demo fleet at every major motorcycle event. Spend your advertising budget getting motorcyclist to test ride your motorcycles. I think most everyone who owns a Buell had no intention of getting one until after they had actually test rode one. I was looking to purchase a Harley until my dealer got me to test drive a Buell, then I was hooked and have now owned one for the last 11 years. | ||
| Court |
>>>I think most everyone who owns a Buell had no intention of getting one until after they had actually test rode one. You were part of that 10% that test rode and then purchased. The demo program has expanded from me traveling places and letting folks ride my bike . . to a pick up truck with 2 Buell . . to a 1 ton with 18 Buells in a trailer to a small fleet of serious tractor trailers. Buell was the first to do this and it's really worked out nicely. | ||
| Ourdee |
Well, OK, I'm a 10%er. Those women better not have been sitting on the Buells. | ||
| Cyclonemick |
I personally fell in love with Buell when I was in High School! It had to be around 92 or 93 when a dirtbike riding buddy and I were looking through sport bike magazines and one of them did a spot on a Buell, I was instantly a fan and vowed to my buddy that someday I would own one of those....Now I do!  | ||
| Hughlysses |
I can't quite remember how I found out about Buell. I liked Sportsters from the time I was a kid, "Then Came Bronson", Mert Lawill, and all that. I didn't care a whit for other HD's. I vaguely remember reading something way back when about this engineer named Buell putting a hot-rodded Sportster engine in a state-of-the-art chassis. I thought that was an extremely cool concept. The first Buell I actually remember seeing was a Blast I saw in Earl Smalls HD in Marietta, GA shortly after they came out. I saw it and thought "Half a Sportster engine? Interesting idea." When I got back into motorcycles about 9 years ago, Buell was one of the first brands I tried to find out more about. I was ready to buy one long before I rode one.  | ||
| Nevrenuf |
always loved cornering and when i saw the cafe racer they came out with in the 70's on a poster in a nato military exchange office in naples italy in 77,that's what really lit my fire. many a year later over at daytona bike week i saw this really cool bike with a checker flagged paint scheme on it and i just had to find out what it was. it was an s1. and boy did it sound awesome when he started that thing up. | ||
| Hootowl |
"I think most everyone who owns a Buell had no intention of getting one until after they had actually test rode one." I bought mine before I ever swung a leg over any Buell motorcycle, including the one I purchased. In 1996 I fell in lust with a girl named S1 Ligntning. Actually, a picture of an S1 in a magazine. Red Snap. All the other girls were uninteresting to me from then on. There was never any question that I would own a Buell after that. It was just a question of money and timing. |
