| Author | Message | ||
     Electraglider_1997 |
I notice that many of us ULY riders are a bit older than most of us would care to admit. Well I'm 54. Maybe we just gravitate toward this kind of bike. Reasonably light, powerful, great handling, easy to look at and work on. Any of you other guys care to admit that you are over 40? Own up. | ||
| Itileman |
I ride with you kids - I'm 65.  | ||
| Buellridersww |
Heck... I am 42. You are right Uly is simple to ride, work, and has baggages to bring stuffs. Great overall bike for my age.... | ||
| Skifastbadly |
54 | ||
| Xbimmer |
58 and counting. | ||
| Mnrider |
It's true 50 years old here. We need a comfy all around bike. | ||
| Crusty |
I'll be 60 next month. I got the name Crusty from a good friend who's 20 years younger than me. He always referred to me as a "Crusty Old Fart". | ||
| 7873jake |
I'm all of 41 and bought the Buell because it was such an odd exercise in how to build a bike that I had to see what owning one would be like. And, I figured that BMW wasn't going to stop making anything I would want to buy any time soon, Triumph seems to be holding their own/not going away so I still had time to own a few of those( besides, the only tiger I ever wanted to own was the old(er) 855?) Anyway, to cut the ramble short...after checking off everything on my list of current bikes I wanted to own (ST, FJ and new Connie included) and having the resources to do so, I kept picking up the Buell brochure. My curiosity has been rewarded ten fold in the ownership of this bike, demons and all. I have to admit that I'd like to try the new VFR having been a fan of previous VFRs but with all that's going on in that thing, I'm more afraid of its TCO and repair bills than my Uly. Honda's good but not infallible... | ||
| Tk052 |
58 three weeks ago. Counting is a bad bad thing! | ||
| Maximum |
45 in years...but my maturity level is much younger!!!  | ||
| Blasterd |
I'm 38, close to 40 I guess.... | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
John, you are a bit Crusty.  | ||
| Jphish |
Be 62 next month. Interesting demographic on Buell ownership, since I think the original intention was to attract the younger 'Hooligan' crowd...instead they snared some foggys. Still had a 'bagger' in garage up until a few years ago, but after 10 years (& only 5,000 mi) of watching it collect dust, sold it to buy the Uly. "Baggages to bring stuffs" Thats Great! Come on Buellerxt - fess up. j | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I'm just a kid at 37! | ||
| Redwing |
60 here, have a Uly and CR and love 'em both. | ||
| Balloyd66 |
44 physically; mentally...just depends on the day. Like to have a sportier Buell also, but just can't do the forward lean anymore. | ||
| Babired |
I'm 47 and would love to go back to being 30  | ||
| Jphish |
PS - Geez! - we could be partly responsible for Buells demise. HD looked at Uly sales profile & said "hey, wait a minute - those guys are supposed to be OUR customers! If we shut down Buell, they'll all rush in here to buy obscenely priced Ultras with ape hangers, automatic throttle bliper & the 'chromologist' package". Hmmm - Wonder how thats workin for 'em? | ||
| Slyuly |
Original body is 45, but my metal hips are almost 7 years old now so I average out to about 30.....lol | ||
| Standingdeadwood |
53. I have a 2001 X1 Lightning too. After a 12 hour day on the X1, I thought the Uly would be more age appropriate. It is a very comfortable bike! | ||
| Whisperstealth |
Jeez, I'm 34. Way to make me feel like I bought an old mans bike!  | ||
| Slash6 |
I guess so far I top the list at 66. I don't think this is so hard to understand - if you're not in to cruisers, want a bike that you can sit up on, like to ride a few miles and that doesn't weigh a ton (BMW GS) and cost too much then the list is short. I narrowed the choices down to the Uly and Multistrada (lost out because of maintenance costs, overall cost and problems they seem to have). Already had a Vstrom (good bike but got bored with it after 34,000 miles) and a KLR which was not enough bike when loaded down for camping - don't ride dirt except for gravel roads. I also ride older BMW airheads - keeping those, I have seen several other airhead riders on the site. | ||
| Hotredjohn |
55 and still get as excited about riding as I did when I was 16. | ||
| Etennuly |
53 so far. Crusty  Did ya have to lay that story on us about how you got your nick name? At our ages, we all have some physical demons that haunt us. Now I will be thinking of you late in every work day.  .....eeeewwwww! | ||
| Redwing |
Here is a link, has some interesting Uly info http://www.njdot.us/buell/ulydata.php | ||
| Jphish |
Geez Redwing - it shows almost all of 07 owners as single & half 08 owners as divorced. Way outside normal distribution - Think the Ulys are responsible ??? | ||
| Rmcconnell33 |
42 here, getting older but refuse to grow up!!!! | ||
| Pontlee77 |
I'm on my way to 33 but since I ride my Uly, the few white hairs I had have blown away | ||
| Babired |
come on there are more FEMALE ULY riders out there!!!!!  | ||
| Eryngium |
On the cusp of my upper 40's. It seems like when I check my age group on a survey there are a lot more age categories behind me now than ahead of me.... |
