| Author | Message | ||
     Lake_bueller |
Okay....don't start flaming me until I get a couple of answers to my questions. This is the easy question: 1) Will the XBScg seat fit on a CityX? My wife is very interested in the bike. However, she needs at least 2-3" of extra clearance (she's 5'5" ). 2) Does anyone think Buell will release other colors of the translucent bodywork in the future? She really wants the bike in pink. I can see that it would appeal to the female buyer to have the CityX in pink. It might even look kinda cool to boot (remember, wife's bike  ) Okay...now back you're regularly scheduled board. | ||
| BadS1 |
Pinky Cuskadarrow.LOL Dennis the seat will work,people are put the City's seat on there XB's | ||
| Mikej |
I don't know how well Plexiglas would hold up on one of the bikes, but I can easily see someone setting up a mold and start vacuum-forming a bunch of transparent colors. Not sure what the price/point decision is on these, but I can also see Buell easily begin to sell transparent/translucent bodywork in a variety of colors (assuming past attempts at custom color buyer's choice attempts from the past doesn't kill the possibility). But then I could also be totally wrong. As always, set her down on one to test fit the bike and go from there. | ||
| Midknyte |
Translucent red comes to mind as a more marketable color, and on thought, would be darned appealing. | ||
| Stealthxb |
I would be first in line for translucid black! | ||
| Cj_xb |
Translucent Yellow !! | ||
| Doughnut |
Green ! | ||
| Buellkowski |
Clear, dual-layered, water-filled with glitter inside for a snow globe airbox! | ||
| Starter |
I'll take a clear one with jellybeans inpregnated in the plastic. | ||
| Dsergison |
my mom makes acrylic retainers for kids with any sort of small stickers set inside them. and rainbow of colors too. acrylic resin is neat to work with. could be a one-off answer. | ||
| Fullpower |
any one seen a a lit up city x at night yet? i bet a gentle radiant blue glow would be an interesting urban look. | ||
| Countryx |
I have to admit I have considered placing a string of led's around the base of the airbox cover, but then I remember that I AM 40 something.   | ||
| Midknyte |
I'll one up ya - Gumballs! | ||
| Gschuette |
I like the trans black idea. If I ever get a City I would pull the blue stuff and replace it with regular black anyway. The black idea is sick! | ||
| Reepicheep |
Gscheutte... get the translucid blue stuff, and put a good coat of black paint on the *inside* of the plastic. I expect the result would be fantastic. Think black with 1/4 *inch* of blue clearcoat, a deep liquid black with blue highlights. Silver would be cool as well. The flyscreen can't be that expensive, get one and play with it. (Message edited by reepicheep on October 20, 2004) | ||
| Bigdaddy |
Reepi, I'm following your City transformation/growth closely, so please keep us up to date. I may be *forced* to add one to the family in the near future. A smoked, much like a tinted window, black would be totally sick. Greg | ||
| Flick |
Clear, with a double wall and a filler hole for water and LIVE GOLDFISH!!!!!!! Oh yeah, now we're cookin!!!!!! | ||
| Tripper |
he fish thingy has already been done. Hermit crabs. | ||
| Jeremyh |
keep in mind that the SC models are also suspension dropped significantly | ||
| Glitch |
keep in mind that the SC models are also suspension dropped significantly The City Cross (XB9SX)has a higher seat height, and stiffer suspension, not at all lower. You must be thinking of the XB12SCG. | ||
| Gschuette |
Reep I love your advice but I need a City first before I can play with it.  | ||
| Jeremyh |
yeah glitch read the post it clearly says SC not SX | ||
| Glitch |
yeah glitch... Then why bring it up? This thread is about the XB9SX. And yes I read it just fine, that's why my post was very clear on what bike was what. | ||
| Builtbyted |
I second Reepicheep's idea of painting the inside of the plastic black. I was at the dealer today, eyeing up a xb9sx of my own and my idea was to paint the inside white. Black would be better though. | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
Glitch they were refering to the scg seat on the sx i belive that is were the confusion came in | ||
| Glitch |
Cool, thanks Firebolt. | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
well it was my impression anyway not sure if im right or not but i do know Lake_bueller was talking about puting a scg seat on the sx to along with the pink stuff to make it a girls sx | ||
| Glitch |
I hate that you're not home, but at the same time it's nice to have you online again. | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
well thanks glitch but hell im half way through with this dumb deployment and when march comes around look out me and my 05 xb9r are going to be be tearing up the streets.  | ||
| Lake_bueller |
Yep...was thinking about the Scg seat on the SX. I think that would give her enough height clearance to feel comfortable. Now I just need to get her into the Riders Edge course next spring. There may be a new Buell in the garage by the end of next summer Of course, we'd have to keep the stock seat so I could get around on it also | ||
| Ted |
Pink ?!! what a thing to do to a Buell ! |
