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Drkr1der
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 11:35 am: |
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Looks like they ruined the Ulysses with a Rotax engine. What a waste. I wonder what else they changed.
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Signal4
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 11:48 am: |
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Where did you find this? I was going to read more and link to a friend of mine that was going to wait til next year to buy a Uly... wonder if this would have an effect on his considerations? Also wouldn't the water cooled engine be a plus not a negative? Definitely do not like the look of the huge scoops, eww. (Message edited by Signal4 on May 31, 2009) |
Hughlysses
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 11:56 am: |
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Very nice Photoshop- but the belt drive is on the wrong side for a Rotax. Who knows though, maybe they do have something in the works like that. |
Electraglider_1997
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 12:12 pm: |
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Actually there is a belt on both sides to handle the extra power. |
Froggy
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 12:39 pm: |
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I spy the XB oil cooler :P |
Ronmold
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 02:26 pm: |
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Now the Uly's gone to hell(icon)! |
Electraglider_1997
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 05:43 pm: |
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How about a tighter toleranced watercooled pushrod engine. Still no valve maintenance. |
Xbimmer
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 06:25 pm: |
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I knew Buell would finally go with the RSS! |
Ironhead1977
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 07:55 pm: |
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The rotax XT would be the only reason I would trade my tractor engine XT. |
12x9sl
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 08:15 pm: |
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I could ride that. |
Osup
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 08:31 pm: |
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Very nice chop! Had me jumping out of my seat there for a second. |
Osup
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 08:32 pm: |
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I'm pretty sure if they went with this option, we would see the 8 piston ZTL's. Not the 6. |
Rwcfrank
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 08:48 pm: |
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Being a huge proponent of forward thinking I would still stay with the pushrods. Buell would have to put some kind of traction control device on the bike to limit the power off road. I really dont want the extra crap associated with the rotax. The old adage goes something like this "It is easy to make something complicated that works well, it is much more difficult to make something simple do the same. |
Notrailerdave
| Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 10:30 pm: |
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I'm in for an XB12XD-----as is in diesel! Either a v-twin, parallel twin or inline triple would be compact enough. It could be turbo'd and intercooled with one of the modern compact turbos out there. It would make monstrous torque and probably get 85 plus mpg. And with the right kind of injection setup, it could run on Diesel 1 or 2, Kerosene, Biodiesel, Jet-A, Jet-A1, or JP-8. (Message edited by notrailerdave on May 31, 2009) |
Longdog_cymru
| Posted on Monday, June 01, 2009 - 05:48 pm: |
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It would be nice to have the bigger fuel capacity, but not so nice to have to drop the Helicon motor to change the spark plugs..... |
Froggy
| Posted on Monday, June 01, 2009 - 06:41 pm: |
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The spark plug interval is the same as the valve adjustment interval, so its killing 2 birds with one stone. |
Hughlysses
| Posted on Monday, June 01, 2009 - 07:00 pm: |
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I'm in for an XB12XD-----as is in diesel! Either a v-twin, parallel twin or inline triple would be compact enough. It could be turbo'd and intercooled with one of the modern compact turbos out there. It would make monstrous torque and probably get 85 plus mpg. And with the right kind of injection setup, it could run on Diesel 1 or 2, Kerosene, Biodiesel, Jet-A, Jet-A1, or JP-8. How about this? http://www.dieselmotorfiets.nl/ |
Notrailerdave
| Posted on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - 12:38 am: |
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Ahhhh....so, so. That's too cobby looking. Something more like the M1030 or the MD670F street version but with belt drive, plenty of storage, etc.. You know like a Uly. Buell has just the mindset to do something like this and make it look and run right. |
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