| Author | Message | ||
     Qii |
to buy or at least greatly admire? | ||
| Spiderman |
too many to count... and quite a few that became good friends. | ||
| Ezblast |
LOL - I've sold more Blasts than any twenty dealerships - so I guess I'm with Spidey on this;0) - GT - JBOTDS! EZ  | ||
| Barker |
I have sold 5(confirmed) many other have got the sales pitch not sure if they took one home. One I sold in the dealership while the salesman stood behind me, after I closed the deal they went to sign the papers and write the check. I took the buyer and the salesmen to buell skuell. Sold a cityx in 4 minutes. He was going to buy a SV until I wandered in to his world. They gave me a Buell Racing T-shirt and and an application. They asked me If want to sell bikes for a living. I said "Hell no, a chef never wants to come home and cook dinner." | ||
| Court |
I used to keep track and at one time had counted 67 people I met who had never heard of Buell and subsequently bought one . . . Having met somewhere on the order of 3,500 Buell owners from 11 countries. . . I suspect there may be others. The odds were heavily in my favor when you could count the Buells in the US on one hand.  | ||
| Glitch |
I dunno, sure would be nice to have been in on some sort of commission program though  | ||
| Spiderman |
That have one at the dealerships. GET A JOB!  | ||
| Glitch |
I think you know better At least you ought to... | ||
| Rick_a |
A few. Most surprising to me was my younger brother who had always bashed Buells as woefully underpowered and crude. He purchased an 07 XB12R last month and loves it. Although he'd also like to have a Honda RC51 he plans on keeping the Buell as a track bike. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
I think I have scared a few away. They were mostly old ladies and small children, though. | ||
| Glitch |
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| M1combat |
Three An '05 SCG, an '06 Bolt and an '08 bolt ;). | ||
| Cityxslicker |
we do a bribery program here for helping someone coming into buell. There is the dealers spiff, and from the sales guy , usually your favorite adult beverage. (that one is the unofficial) I couldnt sell as many of them as I do with out the excitement of the local riders to bring new riders to the brand. | ||
| Danger_dave |
Some. http://www.youtube.com/channeldave  | ||
| Rainman |
I've sold two Blasts that I know of, one to an MSF student who watched me playing around with traffic cones before class and a Rider's Edge student who wanted a lighter, easy to handle bike that would do 70 and keep up with her husband. | ||
| Rich |
Only one that I know for sure. A lot of people have seen my bike. | ||
| Rocketman |
I know I 'sold' an S1W to some stranger I met at Squires Coffee Bar years ago. This guy was riding with a few friends, including the late great Dave Jeffries, TT lap record holder and fantastic racer. He asked about the Buell, so I gave him the keys and sent him on his way. Apart from the fact he came back with an over excited police officer following, he loved every minute of it. It was one of those great summer nights you understand, lol. About a year later, and don't ask me how coz I never knew the bloke, he sent me an email telling me he'd bought a White Lightning. It might come as a surprise to some, but I'm actively trying to put my friend Lyz onto a 12S, right now. In fact, just today I was trying to convince her, telling her she'll need to get some sexy new Buell leathers too. I rolled up on the Buell at Lyz's small holding a few weeks ago. Lyz is about 100 lbs dripping wet through, and she took my S1W down a potholed gravel track wearing jodhpurs and T shirt and no hesitation. Man she can barely touch the floor on the brute of a Buell! I was the worried one, lol. Meet Lyz.  Rocket | ||
| Diablobrian |
I don't know how many I have or have not sold, but I have been at the dealership and talked to perspective customers that couldn't get a salesman's attention, and at various random stops I have talked to curious people and gotten thoughtful responses and questions about where they could find a dealership. I think most of us take on the role of Buell ambassadors when we buy one and we take at least a small amount of pride in this role in the brand's growth. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Meet Lyz. My kids had one of those too. Those fake steering wheel toys. Kinda weird seeing a woman of her age sitting in the passenger seat still pretending to drive. I'd keep an eye on that one. | ||
| Rocketman |
Nice one Fat's! That's my Saab transporter.  As well as a confirmed petrol head nutter, Lyz has a passion for those four legged things you Yanks are crazy about. Judging by Lyz's equestrian endeavours, motorised vehicles offer her no challenge. I would have been a poor man had I not have trusted her behind my wheel! Granted, I give you, you are looking at a rare phenomena. A woman that can really drive  If she ventures here, now I'm in trouble!! Rocket | ||
| 2kx1 |
What is going on with the TVR sticker on the side? Are you now servicing those also? | ||
| Bluzm2 |
Fat, you beat me to the punch! I was going to tell him the wheel was on the wrong side! Either that or he posted the picture backwards..... | ||
| M2nc |
 A few! This is work | ||
| Rocketman |
What is going on with the TVR sticker on the side? Are you now servicing those also? The bike sat on the transporter has a Rover V8 engine, as used in many TVR's. I took the V8 bike to TVR's 60th birthday bash, and stickered the bike and the truck. I've owned my TVR for 12 years or there abouts. I've fully rebuilt everything on it at one time or another. Do I service them now? Not especially, but I've serviced and maintained them as well as lord knows whatever else. Yes I am strictly a Saab specialist, but I never turn away anything remotely interesting, exotic or something I like. So yes, there have been odd balls through my garage. TVR's, Lotuses, Maserati's, Jaguar's, Westfields, TR's, MG's, to name a few. Rocket | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Aren't the Rover V8 engines licensed Buick power plants? I though I remembered that before BMW bought them, they were using that for the Discovery and some of the Rovers. Then again, I smoke a lot of crack. | ||
| Jon |
1 | ||
| Rocketman |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_V8_engine Research guys, research! Rocket | ||
| Danger_dave |
maybe-pedia does not count as research ;-P | ||
| Rocketman |
That's the point DD, lol. Rocket | ||
| Lions |
None... | ||
| Rocketman |
Since the 80's all Rover based TVR engines have been built by TVR Power to whatever spec for model. They were a long way from Rover. Since BMW bought Rover way back when, then TVR owner Peter Wheeler ceased using Rover based power plants famously telling the motoring press "I'm having nothing German in one of my cars". TVR already had their own one make race series engine running in some road cars, so it was their AJP V8 engine became the basis for all TVR engines. The World Sports Car racers were simply four more cylinders making it a V12. From there came the straight 6 which was / is the current TVR power plant. If TVR make it back to production, a deal is already finalised for Ricardo to manufacture and assemble complete engines. Ricardo previously manufactured engine components for TVR Power to assemble. Rover hasn't been in the TVR portfolio this century. Ugh, Buell........ Rocket | ||
| Cochise |
One that I know for sure, but I ride with a few punks that all they do is rip on Buells and keep griping because I won't buy one of their brand of bikes.  | ||
| Lions |
You won't even if you wanted to because than that would make your website completely null and void!  | ||
| Daves |
I've sold a few  |
