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Hedcase
| Posted on Monday, June 12, 2006 - 07:21 am: |
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Let me put it this way: DURING today's ride I expresses to the others that "once you get to know how to ride the bike then it's really quite easy." That is the highest compliment I can make about my Buell experience - remarkable, and yet it's unremarkable because it's so personal. You know? The bike and experience both connect - very powerful. Hedcase |
Hedcase
| Posted on Monday, June 12, 2006 - 07:38 am: |
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Hideous mutant - up yours. Hedcase |
Djkaplan
| Posted on Monday, June 12, 2006 - 10:45 am: |
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Hey, if you got the cash and the motivation, do what ever the hell you want. But don't expect anyone but you to like it. I'm calling a spade a spade here - that bike is hideous regardless of the fact that it's the result of someone's creative effluvia. But hey, if it floats your boat, sail on, brother. |
Oldog
| Posted on Monday, June 12, 2006 - 11:54 pm: |
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the new mutant
This is more creative and artistic than a mutant......... it reeks of individualisim craftmanship and probably pitch too the e-bay mutant just reeks ... Mutant, soo you can be part of the herd too..... |
Hippyjoe
| Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 02:05 am: |
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That looks about as rideable as the mutant. It won't be long until choppers are as ubiquitous as brand-new big twins dripping in chrome and splashy paint, drag pipes proudly announcing another monkey-see, monkey-do peabrain flailing his/her new hog to a shaky stop at the next red light. Then the typical "chopper guy" conversation will also revolve around bolt-on chrome installed by someone else and the upcoming bike wash at the local "cool guy shop." Oh wait, it already does. Sure does make a statement. It's funny how even citizens realize how idiotic wannabes are, now that they're everywhere, unsuccessfully trying to ride the biggest, loudest, shiniest bikes their credit limits and wives will allow... and looking like everyone else in the neighborhood. That wooden bike, now that guy's on to something. |
Denfromphilly
| Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 08:49 am: |
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To be honest, I have wanted to build one since I saw it...what a cool rat! |
Djkaplan
| Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 09:29 am: |
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"and probably pitch too" That one made me laugh out loud! |
Oldog
| Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 03:32 pm: |
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Case If your gonna destroy a tuber do this http://www.badweatherbikers.com/cgibin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=4062&post=674719#POST 674719 this one is richeous! |
Formerslimjim
| Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 04:19 pm: |
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Actually the cafe racer look isn't too far of a stretch for a Buell. This one is one of my favorites... http://www.vd-classic.com/img/realisation/photovd007.jpg http://www.vd-classic.com/img/accessoires/photos/BUELL.gif |
Denfromphilly
| Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 04:49 pm: |
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Remember that cafe' racer sportster that HD made in 77'. Deans HD here in PA had one and couldn't sell it. The price eventually got down to $1,899 and it sat in the showroom for a year. I considered buying it but never did. It was so rare it became a collectable....
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Formerslimjim
| Posted on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 - 10:03 pm: |
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About a year ago in the Cycle Trader for NE Ohio a guy was trying to sell one of those without the motor for somewhere close to $1,800. If he would of been realistic with the price, I would of bought it. |
Djkaplan
| Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 08:41 am: |
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I wanted an XLCR soooo bad when I was 15, but there was no way I could ever afford one working minimum wage jobs in the summer. For some odd reason, it always appealed to me, much more so than any Japanese or Italian bike at the time. It may have been a commercial failure, but Willy G. penned a bike that created a little spark that never died in me and eventually lead to my Buell in 2000. I'd still love to do a replica of one. |
Jersey_thunder
| Posted on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 02:27 pm: |
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OLDOG, you understand!!!...many don't....i have tried to teach.. JT |
Hedcase
| Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 12:50 am: |
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Oldog, it's close! Maybe something more like this: http://www.mertlawwill.com/images/ST_main.jpg Jersey, bashing is not teaching. |
Eboos
| Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 01:27 am: |
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The clubhouse bike had some pretty cool stuff done to it. I like the sprocket and chain shift linkage. While still not my style, I like to see things that I haven't seen done before. |
Oldog
| Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 02:21 pm: |
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Case thats what I'm talkin about bad to the bone ... |
Denfromphilly
| Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 - 04:03 pm: |
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Ok, I am starting more trouble...Here is a good one, a guy gutting his X1 to build a chopper because it needed a shock. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4650668075 I hope he does a nice job.... |
Oldog
| Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 - 01:40 am: |
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a block of wood and a drill would have fixed that maybe he did not like the smell of pitch.. Was that the guy that ask about putting a strut in place of the shock, Den you buelligan troublemakler you! |
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