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Ourdee
| | Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 07:27 pm: | 
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Edgydrifter, Try the SRT version of the caliber? 300hp makes it go pretty good. I took a ride on the test track with one of the guys that drove them out the door all day. I was impressed. |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 11:28 pm: |
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thread jack back... check the date on those pubs. they killed the rooster back last summer, blame the AMA; I know I do.
Now if they want to put a Rotax motor in a space aluminum frame with a focus on the trilogy of tech, then all the better. Bring on the bendy and dirty. |
Liquorwhere
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 08:20 am: |
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Hey my buddy ate it bad on his KFX450, collapsed a lung and all that, so his old lady being angry and anti motorcycle used it to force him to take a few days in Ft Lauderdale, he will be back mid week and I will scan in the photo's of the buell dirtbike with the spec's from the mag in there. Sorry for the delay, but once you see it you will be pleased even after the wait. |
Fast1075
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 01:15 pm: |
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I used to really like takin' my 450 Maico to Croom and go rippin' the perimeter road...never rode anything more controllable while crossed up...before or since... |
Chippy
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 01:29 pm: |
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City, just tell me your future drz will have dirt tires on it.... |
Liquorwhere
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 05:52 pm: |
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Fast,
I saw a guy up there a few months back on a Maico 490, it was to say the least beautiful, in perfect condition, but I think I only saw him get it started once, and never saw him hit the trails on it, mostly he just parked it next to his truck and sat in his gear in a chair and fiddled with it....anyway, I like mean areas of Croom, rolling the cockroach highway(we call four wheelers cockroaches) back in the back by the camp grounds it runs like 8 or 9 miles through the woods like a roller coaster all the way to the sand pit, love it, that place is deadly and I love for that element of danger.... |
Liquorwhere
| | Posted on Monday, March 30, 2009 - 05:55 pm: |
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Fast here is my bike at Croom at the Oak Parking area....
CRF450R, 2006 a total beast |
Fast1075
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 08:27 am: |
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Nice bike...bet that is fun...I haven't owned a dirtbike for many years now...LOL on the Maico not starting...between the Motoplat ignition and the Bing carb, it can be a nightmare...but when they run, they are killer. |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 03:44 pm: |
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oh yeah, I am already getting flack from the local moto heads with the tire choice.... you CANT ride it off road!.... No, you cant, I most certainly will. |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 03:55 pm: |
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I did some nice off road work with a set of Pilot Road 2's.
Barker and I went off road with my bike shod in a set of Metzler Race Tec K2's.
It ain't the tires.
"It ain't the arrow head on the arrow, it's the indian?" |
Liquorwhere
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 04:41 pm: |
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Fast,
That's right, they were beastly and still are, the styling so was European, smooth lines really nice looking, my Uncle raced for Maico when I was a young lad, Bultaco as well, one year on a Penton ( I got that hand me down, my older brothers got the rest of them) and I must say I do love those old bikes, everytime I watch On Any Sunday and see CZ's, Maico's, Bultaco's, Puch, Husquavarna's and the ilk it just makes me wish riding was still like that, so free and open like when I was a kid, but it will never be that way again, too many fences and lawsuits....anyway, too bad you don't have a dirtbike you could come with and twist that throttle, I do know of a sweet McGrath addition 2004 KTM 450 SX with some really nice anodized parts and a fresh set of Pirelli sand tires for sale...in my garage in fact, it is on Craiglist....sure you don't want another dirt thrower????  |
Liquorwhere
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 08:23 am: |
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Ok here it is...sorry it took so long...
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Reepicheep
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 09:07 am: |
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Their patent drawings are getting prettier!  |
Barker
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 07:10 pm: |
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anybody got patent #'s?
we can try to look it up @ google patents. |
Froggy
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 07:26 pm: |
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Nothing shown up about it looking under Erik F. Buell |
Hexangler
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 07:31 pm: |
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http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PT O2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-b ool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=buell&FIELD1=ASNM&co1= AND&TERM2=&FIELD2=&d=PTXT
Don't think it is issued yet. But check this list. |
Hexangler
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 07:32 pm: |
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Search at www.uspto.gov
Patents tab on left. |
Doerman
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 07:39 pm: |
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A similar article can be found in the May issue of Motorcyclist (just arrived in my mailbox today). The headline reads:
"Radical American motocross racer could still see the light of day"
This just might get Cityslicker excited again!
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Court
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 09:09 pm: |
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>>>Nothing shown up about it looking under Erik F. Buell
Seldom will.
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Wheelybueller
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 10:10 pm: |
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You guys are killing me,All my garage toys could be Buell/or of similar Species.
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Svh
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 10:30 pm: |
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I would have never thought that the "noisy" fan design is patented. Such a simple theory. No wonder other air cooled engines don't use one |
Froggy
| | Posted on Thursday, April 02, 2009 - 10:37 pm: |
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I read a few of the patents before, but one that caught my eye this time was for the Blast muffler, it is designed with that wedge shape in the front to act as a air scoop to direct air towards the engine. Some good stuff. |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Friday, April 03, 2009 - 02:48 pm: |
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I will road test that ALL winter vacation, with a goal to ride dirt in every state, come on Buell... Build it.
In the words of Fox Mulder
"I want to Believe"
It still needs lights, plates, turn signals, I am not MXing the damn thing.... but I already have all those parts
(Message edited by cityxslicker on April 03, 2009) |
Crusty
| | Posted on Friday, April 03, 2009 - 05:13 pm: |
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I would have never thought that the "noisy" fan design is patented.
LOUD FANS SAVE LIVES!!! |
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