| Author | Message | ||
     Dasxb9s |
are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? Dave... Sam keeps taking my M&Ms! Dave... Sam keeps punching my arm! Dave... Sam keeps making fun of me! Dave... Sam took my beer! Dave... I'm hungry! Dave... I gotta go pottie! are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? are we there yet? Dave... Sam is picking on me again! Dave... Sam spilled beer on me! Dave... I need a dry T-shirt! Dave... Can I have a T-shirt? Can I? Can I? Can I please? Dave... Sam wants a T-shirt too! AND HE CAN"T HAVE MINE! | ||
| Davegess |
looks like a 27% increase in 12 month XB sales which is very cool but the Blast seems to have crashed. | ||
| M1combat |
The Blast is a funky lookin' bike IMHO... | ||
| Daves |
Das, Do I have to stop the car and kick both you kid's asses?(I sound like my dad) I'm trying to find out what the holdup is. Dave | ||
| Uwgriz |
"the Blast seems to have crashed" Had to figure it would happen. Build a reliable bike that a majority of people ride for only a year or so while learning and you create a huge used bike market. Since there's so many out there from those who wanted a bike to learn on and now want something bigger, you can pick up a used Blast with less than 2000 miles for less than half the price of new. Nobody's worried about the reliability, especially since they'll only put on another couple thousand miles before they're ready to sell it. I don't think the demand for Blasts has dropped, just the demand for new ones. | ||
| Mikej |
Couple that aspect of Blast sales with historic trends of HD/Buell dealership staff pushing people more towards Harleys and less towards Buells and add in the release of the new Sportster which is seemingly more user friendly and more Harleyish to new riders who probably came into a Harley dealership more for the concept of riding a Harley than for the concept of riding in general and it readily becomes apparent why Blast sales have dropped and Buell sales can't compete with Sportster sales. Apart from a few notable exceptions of course. But then I'm probably wrong, and I hit my finger with a hammer last night and it still hurts some today so I'm probably distracted by that as well. Oh well, I'll probably pass on this t-shirt deal as well. Got other stuff to do and take care of. YMMV. | ||
| Bomber |
Blasts may have saturated the market they can reach especially through H-D dealers) . . .very few beginner bikes out there, and the mean H-D dealership vistor is pining after a fatboy or softtail classic anywho . . . . . as posted above, those that got a blast grew out of it fairly quickly (i've heard it called this generations' Honda 160), and moved on . .. . there are boocoo really nice used ones out there, thereby limiting, greatly, the demand for new . . . .I have a suspicion that Blast sales will yo-yo over the long term . . .as the old one's get rolled up into balls and run into the ground, the demand for new ones will rise to take up the slack but I've been wrong before | ||
| Davegess |
"If Buell.com ungraded their web site to require upgrades to browsers then they just lost a lot of viewers. IMHO." Mike it is becoming harder and harder to surf the net without a reasonably standards compliant browser. IE 5.0 for Netscape 6.0 is the minimum if you want to look at sites that use any sort of complicated style sheet and those are rapidly being used everywhere. Dave | ||
| Prof_stack |
Last weekend new Blasts were on sale for $2,995 at my Buell/HD dealer, who, btw, alerted us on their e-mail list about the Buell promotion. Heck, they should scrap the Blast and introduce an XB6-Low with 8,500 rpm limit. Call that Buell's beginner bike. Good thinking, IMHO, about the new Sportster. Nicer base model to ride. They will sell a ton of them, to be sure. (But not to me...) | ||
| Mikej |
Dave, Yep, agree. At home on one system I'm still running Win95 and some version of NetScape and IE, at work we are fairly fresh but I still find lots of limited access due to site-required Flash upgrades and other programs the web site developers decided to use and require viewers to upgrade to. For example, I'm currently on IE 5.00.3315..... and have found two sites just today that are beyond that. Don't recall which ones they are because as soon as I hit one I can't see I just redirect elsewhere to find the info and forget about the limiting site. What I call "good sites" will give options to enter with or without flash, with or without windows, and so forth. I haven't been able to hit Harley from home for over a year or two. (Just as well since I ride a Buell or two.  ) I don't know too many people these days who can afford to dump their computer and buy a new one every two or three years. And most of them won't even consider attempting to upgrade their operating system. I figure my home box is good for maybe one more year then I'll pile it on top of the 386SX and start looking for something else. Might even go with a Mac next time  , friends out west probably just fainted at that thought. | ||
| M1combat |
Please don't use a MAC... Use your existing PC and install Linux. Preferably the Fedora release from Redhat. For a small fee each year you get the use of something akin to windows update (but keep in mind you get a LOT of free software and the OS itself is free (and better)). The browser would be Mozilla which is very compatible. As long as you don't have a lot of "windows" software AND as long as there are no FREE pieces of comparable software that are SHIPPED with Fedora there's NO reason not to go with Linux. More stable, Less resource hungry, FREE, better, etc., etc. Redhat ships (or is downloaded with) a suite called open office. It's easily as powerful as Office and file compatible with just about everything including Corel WP. It also ships with the "gimp" which is mostly comparable to Photoshop. If you're not a gamer there's almost never a reason that you can't use Linux. The redhat installer is also very simple to use... Try it out just before you buy a new PC, I think you'll be surprised. OK, back to the topic, sorry... | ||
| Dullorb |
Don't get a Mac if you aren't a hard core visual arts person. That's all they are good for. If you are, then you NEED a mac. Nothing will beat it. | ||
| Daves |
A little bird just let me know that the promotion "should" be up by the end of the day. Sorry for the "a little too early" heads up. Dave | ||
| Mikej |
Kind of where I might be headed with things, visual arts and photography stuff. Not there yet, just thinking ahead some. Sort of like this recent t-shirt deal, not there yet. | ||
| Dasxb9s |
Dave... Sam just... OUCH!!!! never mind!!!! | ||
| Newfie_buell |
NOTHING THERE YET Kind of like the kids on a car trip!!!! Are We There YET, DAD??? Dave stop teasing us!!!!Thats like the sun coming out, bike out of the garage and while getting the gear on you only get the worst damm snow storm in history!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Phillyblast |
Mikej If you're using that old a version of IE you oughta see about upgrading, for security reasons - lot's of nasties out there for IE. Let me know I'll burn you a copy of the latest Mozilla and ship it out to ya if bandwidth is an issue. M1 - got that page using Konqueror  Popped open Mozilla and it came up fine. Not a big annoyance, but since the new Macs use KHTML as the basis for Safari, the Apple www browser, it prolly should be included in the list of approved browsers for the site. | ||
| Mikej |
I'll keep that in mind Philly. Due to a variety of reasons I can't do much with the system at home right now beyond simply maintaining it within a status-quo parameter. Hopefully by June I'll be able to do some purging and upgrading, but until then I have to play easy and lay low and hope it maintains as is for a bit. Appreciate the offer though and I will keep it in mind. And if the system does hit the ditch, well, then, things will have changed. | ||
| Bykergeek |
Streetfighters T-Shirt promo? I feel like Ralphie when he decoded the little orphan annie secret message.  | ||
| Henrik |
Safari works just dandy - as do Macs for everything else, just shy of high-end stats, enterprise databases and such. And does so with quite a bit less BS and heartache than Windoze Henrik | ||
| Dullorb |
Big reason why I would recommend PC over Mac is that the average person can go into Best Buy or whatever and buy the cheapest PC there and it will do everything they will need to have done for at least as long as a Mac. And since W2K the OS has been very stable. | ||
| Ray_maines |
Yes Das, were there! So quit you're whining. I'll give ya 5 min. to go potty and then we're going in. | ||
| Bykergeek |
Win2K is stable and XP even moreso but I still prefer my mac.  My PC is powered off 90% of the time here. | ||
| Daves |
It's up! Go get your shirts! Dave | ||
| Mbsween |
Thanks Dave, pretty soon I'll have 2 weeks of Buell shirts! | ||
| Bartimus |
I have internet explorer 6.0 and still need more power. I can't get in. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa | ||
| Dullorb |
You should be able to see it on 6.0 | ||
| Dynarider |
Cool. Honda gives us the CBR1000RR Yamaha gives us the sexy R1 Ducati just gives us sex Buell gives us free Hanes Beefy-t's  Hows about taking the $$$ they spend on these shirts & the manpower involved & use it to deliver the bike that a lot of folks on this website are asking for? Maybe then sales wont continue to fall. | ||
| Paulinoz |
Honda gives us the CBR1000RR Yamaha gives us the sexy R1 Why waite if you lust after an R1 or CBR type bike go and buy one now, Buell will not be making a bike like that in my lifetime IMHO and if they did it would cost more than Mr Honda or Mr Yams offering's. Each manufacturer has a niche to fill and Buell fills there's very well once again IMHO. | ||
| Dasxb9s |
Dave... YOU ARE MY HERO!!!!! If I ever grow up... I want to be just like you!!! BTW Dave... Sam keeps eating my M&Ms! Dave... Sam keeps taking my beer! Dave... Sam keeps hogging the gameboy! Dave... Sam untied my shoe! Dave... Sam... OUCH!!!! never mind! Dave... THANKS FOR THE SHIRT INFO!!!!!!!! |
