| Author | Message | ||
     Choptop |
Sharkus, ride yer X1, enjoy it. If it breaks, fix it. If it pisses you off by breaking too much, sell it. otherwise, enjoy it. Pre-flighting yer Buell is probably going to save yer arse more than once. Its better to find a loose bolt in your garage than it is to loose it 200 miles from home. It may break, it may not. Either way, enjoy. Buells are fun bikes. Oh yes, and expect a rockerbox leak within the next 2000 or so miles. No big deal. Just replace the stock HD gasket with a James Gasket and you'll be good to go. | ||
| Anonymous |
Sharkus, embrace the darkside, do not fear it. | ||
| Mikej |
Sharkus, Go ride. Far more ride without problems than with, Far more with problems complain than those who don't. Ride, and let the miles speak for themselves. Go ride. | ||
| Ara |
Sharkus, I don't think you asked a philosophical question. Best thing you can do for your Buell is let it warm up while you zip your jacket, put in your earplugs, and put on your helmet and gloves. Then go a bit easy on it until it's warmed up. Then ride it like it really is a 1203cc real man's motorcycle, 'cause that's what it is. Russ | ||
| Sharkus |
Thanks guys. Ride it I will!!! I'm finally starting to see more Buells in my area (Winston-Salem, NC) | ||
| Hootowl |
Sharkus. You should replace your rocker box gaskets with metal ones. The paper ones are a leak waiting to happen. I have a 99X1 with 30K miles on it. Got stranded a few weeks ago due to a dead battery caused by a fried stator, caused by (popular opinion) the solid particles in the Redline Heavy Shockproof oil. Other than that, it's been rock solid and reliable. Some people have no end of trouble with them, others have no problems at all. If you take the time to make sure all your recalls are done, use metal rocker gaskets, and keep your preventative maintenance up to date, you will most likely have a trouble free motorcycle. I'm going to put about a thousand miles on my bike this weekend, and I'm not worried about it. I ride it over a hundred miles every day going to work and back. Just keep it off the rev limiter, and you shouldn't have any problems. Also, you should switch to synthetic oil after about 4K miles, and updating your shifter with a Banke or the 2001 Buell shifter and installing the updated detent plate will make it shift about 10 times better. | ||
| Court |
Don't apologize....get to know the bike and we'll teach you that stuff  Court | ||
| Mistaandypants |
Whoa! I'm in Winston-Salem! you must be that other Buell owner. cool | ||
| Stoef |
Grizz, Jill, PPiA and Rocketman: On the Beer and Hamburgers??? Looks like you all have a great time overthere! When you come back to Europe.... Don't forget the PATCHES!!! for the fans overhere.... Later | ||
| Rd350 |
DynaRider, About your bike. There has been some problems with the older Buells engines getting hot and distorting the pistons enough to have part of the retaining clip that holds the piston to the conecting rods breaks off. The clip goes down and gets stuck in the oil pump. The pump breaks and you loose the whole engine. It sounds like this might have happend. Have the dealer check the retaining clips very carefully. I think if they find the problem and you really bitch to Buell they should fix it. I think that having your engine go at 14 months is Bullshit and Buell should pay for it.. | ||
| Court |
Stoef: Don't think I won't fine you just because you are over in Europe! Court | ||
| Ferris |
Pre-flighting yer Buell is probably going to save yer arse more than once. Its better to find a loose bolt in your garage than it is to lose it 200 miles from home. VERY wise words, indeed. also, ever notice that clean, sanitary, well-detailed bikes spend less time on the side of the road with mechanical problems? ever wonder why? There have been some problems with the older Buell engines getting hot and distorting the pistons enough to have part of the retaining clip that holds the piston to the connecting rods breaks off. The clip goes down and gets stuck in the oil pump. The pump breaks and you lose the whole engine. this is (basically) EXACTLY what happened to my Buell, altho i suspect the rear intake gasket leak i missed, and the resultant severely high combustion heat that this produced, was the straw that broke the camel's back. there's a thread and pix on the Quick Board, entitled something like "Oil Pump vs. Pinion Gear" that touches on this issue a bit. FB | ||
| Pjw |
My buell has been nothing but problems My frends buell has not had any problems other than a pluged carb jet they are the same year the same model and bought within 2 weeks of each other Now I can add every toy I have had is like this my ford, chevy, nessan, honda, susuki, kaw, exc exc off road on road exc exc my frends joke that if any thing ever gets the stamp of approval they are all going to go out and buy one. I guess the point is just go have fun and if your luck or tallent sucks ohwell buells are the funnest bike I have ever road even though mine hads been a pile of ---- my buddy road mine once and bought one the next week and had road nothing but big bikes all his life ps my spelling sucks where is the spell checker | ||
| Donald |
Attention FERRIS BUELLER, Let's get together for the ride that Jerry Johnson is putting on this weekend. How can you pass on Polamar Moutian ride? It's going to awesome ride Let's Go. Also Tat's 4th annual American Sportbike BBQ. Donald Sabatino | ||
| Ferris |
Attention DONALD SAVAGE-TINO!!! can't do it, man, altho it's not for lack of several of you SoCal Hoolies trying! 'tis very cool to see your name on here, how long's it been? was great to see you at Laguna, did Colin put on a great show or what??? how's the new 'Bolt treating you? you'll be pleased to hear (in case you haven't been lurking in awhile) that i'm all ga-ga over the new Lightning (in black), and have even mentioned in print that the VFR might have to go away so that this new Buell could take up residence in the garage. i cannot WAIT to get one of these little varmints out on a BattleTrax course! hey, in case EBear is a slacker this weekend, be sure to harass Jerry Johnson a BUNCH for me -- he REALLY likes being passed on the OUTSIDE of a tight corner! hugs to you, kisses to your missus, FB | ||
| Iamike |
Mark- Just keep riding that X1 and learn to deal with it's intricacies. I bought my '99 S3 after 3 Hondas & a Sporty. I have never enjoyed riding as much as I do now. At 29,000 mi. it has had minimal problems. It doesn't take too much mechanical skill to keep on top of these bikes and if something happens on the road you'll be much more prepared to fix it. Go though the knowledge vault and do the little things like connector maintenance and such. Most of the problems I've ever had with bikes (yes even Hondas have problems) is from ignoring little things. I have a CBR and if my son didn't ride it, it would sit in the garage most of the time. The Buell just calls for me every time I walk out there. Don't worry about a 200mi. ride. I've ridden to Colorado & back a couple of times and some guys ride a whole lot further than that. Even at this mileage I still hop on it for a 400 mi. ride without worry. | ||
| Redstripe |
X1 glider; Rocket having difficuly keeping up? We'd better not get up to pace, then... Stoef; We are! And yes, on the beer and hamburgers also. -which is, actually, a Dutch invention of which the name originates from the greek- Got You a shirt, Pete. Say "hi" to our friends over there... | ||
| Tripper |
My S1 turned 26,000 miles so today I treated it to a dyno run at the HD open house in KC. Somewhere in the last year it picked up 5 ft/lbs and 5 HP. It is ridden "Mildly Hard".  Someday I may spend some money for headwork and more cubic inches etc., but the way this bike is going I might die of old age first. Other than missing the Colo Ganza, the Buell is still providing way too much fun to this old fart. | ||
| Loki |
I have been able to put a little more than a thousand miles on the S1 since I picked it up a month back. the grin factor is immense! I put 20,000 nearly care free miles on the M2, I hope it gets replicated with this beast. Loki, now of the Black Buell clan | ||
| José_Quiñones |
Read the rest of the review in German HERE | ||
| José_Quiñones |
here's another interesting bike spotted at the Intermot show, thaks to motorcycle-usa.com...  | ||
| Ccryder |
Does this give new meaning to "naked Bike"?  Neil S. | ||
| Ara |
AK! Don't scare us like that, Jose! | ||
| Jmartz |
Tripper: Glad to hear the world's fastest pumpking is still going strong. With October approaching fast you will soon turn into a Bona Fide Georgian. | ||
| Dueller |
Just back from a vigorous ride on the M2 beater....post ride inspection revealed broken engine mount on the right (breadbox) side. WHEW...glad its got double mounting points!!!! Is this that common...cause? I can't locate the post but does anyone have the part number for the mount that is from the X1 (I think) that eleminates the breadbox mount? Thanks jim | ||
| Bull |
Does anyone know where to buy Crossroads stuff in either Germany or in the Netherlands?? I know I can buy it from the UK but the pound is quite strong to say the least... Cheers/ Jonas | ||
| José_Quiñones |
Dueller, Try 16271-99Y, Isolator Mount, front | ||
| Two_Buells |
Buell Demo fleet @ H-D York Final Assembly Plant Open House 9/26-9/28 Location: York Expo Center (fairgrounds) York, Pa | ||
| Bykergeek |
KTM Article (translated) KTM, that fastest increasing motorcycle manufacturers of Europe, is on the way from the Offroadspezialisten to the full offerer. Important milestone on this journey becomes the 950 Duke, the first multi-cylinder route motorcycle of the Austrians. For KTM is this thus somewhat quite new, and so me projects manager invited Philipp having castle and chief engineer Wolfgang Felber to the test of the first prototype. Felber: "we build for the first time a V2-Strassenmotorrad. Say us whether we are on the correct way." Said, done, and I follow KTM Testfahrer Manfred sending farmer approximately in such a way on a 150-km-Runde into the area around Mattighofen. Manfred is on the way on a Ducati monster S4, which permits some interesting comparisons. That begins already when mounting: The monsters, nut/mother of all Naked Bikes, feels comparatively unloading and unmanageably. However one would regard the slim, short and easy V2-Duke smoothly as an a cylinder supermono, approximately in the style of a Aprilia Pegaso. But one must start only the engine. It sounds a register more highly than the Duc twin, grollt nevertheless impressive and turns with each gas impact greedily by the number of revolutions regions. It is already a completely new V2-Erlebnis. The 75-Grad-V2 of the Duke reaches the torque of the Italian 90-Grad-Twins not completely, but he makes up for this by the direct fuel intake and the turning joy more than. With 10 500/min gently using ignition misfires remind of the fact that should be shifted up. According to chief engineer Felber carries the prototype even some HP out more than the 120-Kurbelwellen-PS aimed at for the series. No miracle, the driving impressions fail positively, weigh the prototype nevertheless filled up only approximately 183 kg. In the series it might be scarcely 10 kg more, which results in a mad weight per horsepower nevertheless. With high engine speed The prototype engine exhibits a torque depression with 6000/min, which wants to still out-iron Felbers team with the micro-adjustment of Keihin injection. Otherwise: Joy prevails! The twin winds up alive, as if it would be a knackiger four-cylinder. Despite the turning joy it does not accept very cleanly gas - there gibts Nervositaeten, if one pulls on the curve vertex on the cable. Injection cultivates functioned in such a way as at a Honda, and that is nevertheless alleweil a radix complement. The key to the number of revolutions appetite (and the torque shifted upward) the KTM are probably the small rotors. That has at least two advantages. On the one hand one can profit on the last pusher by applying brakes gently a curve still down-switched and in such a way from the braking action, without looking for directly with marking rear wheel a gap in the shrubs. Amazingly, because on the one hand the compression with 11,5:1 for a Strassen-V2 is properly high, and on the other hand KTM does without a anti- Hopping clutch. The second advantage of the knausrig used rotors (see also technical description in the second part of the report) is the ease with the direction change. The Duke 950 gives in, as soon as one also only remembers. In addition come the short wheel base (1405 mm), the steep guidance head angle of 66,5 degrees, the wake of under 100 mm and the broad steering wheel. The dimensions of a Sportbikes fits also the front-oriented weight distribution, which amounts to according to project manager having castle 51.4 to 48.6 per cent. If with it still another deep emphasis associates, we receive a new yardstick in things Sportbike handling. No other motorcycle with such an large and strong engine drives itself as easy as the KTM. (...) | ||
| Ncbueller |
Nissin Brake Question Do any of you Buell Experts know or know where We can find which Japaneses bike/bikes are equiped with the 340 mm rotor and the Nissin caliper that Buell uses for the later X1s? Would like to investigate a second caliper and larger master cylinder without paying hugh $$$ to Brembo, Trojan Horse and others. Possilby buying removed (bone yard) parts would be an cost effective alernative? Thanks Ride Safe |
