| Author | Message | ||
     Paulinoz |
Any one had any news from the Usual Suspects out on the Salt yet ie: Bub event. | ||
| Firemanjim |
Paul,check out report at www.landracing.com no racing today as course is wet,tomorrow looks better.Sounds like its huge!!!!! | ||
| M1a65 |
Todd, I concur with Ted when he said that the new XB's are awefull short for 2 up riding. The M2 & XB's both handle great though and parts are easily had. Your sure to need alot of spares with the M2, reliability isn't anywhere near what you might expect if your used to riding jap/german bikes. Not as familiar with the XB's reliability as I don't own one. If your mechanical skills aren't good or your pockets aren't deep I suggest you look at a Triumph Speed Triple. Same style bike in a reliable package. I'm sure I'll get alot of flames for the above but if you on this site you know paleface speaks the truth. Good luck with your next ride. | ||
| Kim |
Iamike, When is your trip taking place? I will keep an eye on the weather for you. We did have a couple of inches of snow here on sunday morning. It melted on contact with road surfaces, made the mountains pretty, and was all gone by the afternoon. It never lasts long this time of year. You should be able to go through without any problems. I would suggest bringing warm riding gear, as the mornings are getting cool. Murrae works for Santa Fe HD/Buell. Kim | ||
| Sandblast |
Someone help! I read here on this board that JD Power had given the XB's an award for durability, but now I cant find it. The JD power web site has no mention of bikes, just helmets. Did I imagine this? I started a lively talk at work about it with some of my Japanese bike friends... I read the badweb pretty late at night though sometimes I hope I was not dreaming  | ||
| Jim_sb |
IIRC the "durability" award was for the rider's back. It seems that on many Italian and Japanese sportbikes the riders are often found parked on the side of the road getting a back rub... Most Buells solve that problem nicely...  Jim in Santa Barbara | ||
| Iamike |
Kim, We're probably leaving the afternoon of the 17th and will ride to either Omaha if we're coming your way or KC if the south route. I tried to tell him September can be really nice out there. I'll watch the weather as we get closer and let you know. I'd rather stop on the way out. If we cut south from Breck and go across Wolf Creek Pass that would be too far west of Santa Fe. Have you heard of any construction on that road? I'll check with the DOT, but I've been burned in both IA & NH on that this summer. | ||
| Blasterd |
Yessssssss, Power is finally restored!!!!! Ken soggy in Fla | ||
| Kim |
Iamike, Today was a high of about 70, not a cloud in the sky. Perfect riding weather. The aspens are starting to turn. They should be looking great by that weekend. If you come this way we may ride south a ways with you. Wolf Creek Pass has been under construction for years. Usually some delays, the weekend will be better than a weekday. Go here to check on progress: http://www.dot.state.co.us/wolfcreekpass/index.cfm Kim | ||
| Firemanjim |
So ,I spent the day in final engine assembly and here is the final product,thansk to Aaron,Brian,and everyone at Vallejo Buell'   Does this look like a bike? May actually be able to get ready. | ||
| Peter |
Jim, Cool. What is it now? | ||
| Firemanjim |
XB stage 3 plus heads,1250 kit,S&S crank and rods,Red Shift cams,etc.Went chain drive and lengthened swingarm.Still with original aerocharger from last year,but it was good for almost 180 HP.I have a larger,but no time to get it set up.Heck ,I don' know if I have time for this one.And my son's bike looks about the same.Hopefully tomorrow it will look more like a motorcycle. | ||
| Squattingdog |
Jim, How'z about the bottom end?  -SD: | ||
| Softailbuell |
"S&S crank and rods,Red Shift cams,etc" That would be a fair bit I think | ||
| Moltons3 |
Hello,I was wandering if anyone can tell me if a race kit part # 82000-99ya will fit my 99 S3 FI? It says its for a M2 what are the differences in the ECMs? Would everything work except the ECM? Thanks Wade | ||
| Blake |
Wade, An M2's ignition control module will not work with any of the fuel injected models. | ||
| Buelliedan |
Also the M2 header will not work either as it does not have an O2 sensor bung. (Message edited by buelliedan on September 08, 2004) | ||
| Firemanjim |
And here we are at lunch break today,made a bunch more progress after this.  | ||
| Paulinoz |
Good progress Jim it almost looks like a motorcycle. Have you herd anything from the salt. | ||
| Paulinoz |
Pulled this Post of Aarons of off Sacborg. First bike on the salt was about 12:30. Course is very slippery, ESPECIALLY in the timed mile (procedures are different from the other events: 1 timed mile and the difference between the short and long course is where you start). Getting up to speed in the 2-mile short course run-up before that timed mile was a real challenge on any kind of powerful bike, becaue traction is so poor. But inside the timed mile is slush and that's where virtually everyone was fighting wheelspin and slowing down. We ran 156 on our first pass, at roughly half throttle, fighting to keep up hooked up and upright. Return pass was 160, same thing going on. Only one who was faster was John Noonan, who ran his 500+hp turbo busa on the long course. Reportedly entered the mile at 213, fought to keep the bike up, and bagged a 203. The boy has balls. Another turbo busa tried the same thing, went into something of a tank slapper, shut it down, and exited the mile at a walking pace and needing a new pair of shorts. In the mph per cc class, Rick Yacoucci (who's been over 300 in his streamliner and over 200 on his busa) ran his RC motor equipped pocket bike a whopping 22mph to lay down the gauntlet. Not so slow when you consider it's 2.1cc. Reportedly makes 1.8hp at 44,000 rpm. We're hoping for better conditions tomorrow. We're gonna follow Noonan's lead and try the long course method to get more speed up before entering the slush mile. | ||
| Reepicheep |
 44,000 rpm... not bad for a thumper | ||
| Road_thing |
2.1 cc?? Is that right? That sounds like a model airplane motor... rt | ||
| Mikej |
That's what it is, and a 2-stroker too. | ||
| Road_thing |
Assuming a "square" motor, and unless I'm ciphering wrong, that works out to a bore & stroke around 1.4 cm, or around .5 in. Truly miniscule. I would have been impressed if the correct dimension were 2.1 ci, but at 2.1 cc, I'm astounded! I bet he doesn't need a big gas tank! On the other hand, his glow plug bill is probably the highest on the salt... rt | ||
| Usmarinenco |
Actually...If he is using a model airplane engine (around 65 to 500 dollars) his glow plugs are around 2 to 6 dollars a piece. It's not that bad...considering he is getting all that action out of such a small engine! I'm truly impressed! | ||
| Mikej |
(This could get interesting)  | ||
| Josh_ |
Why is the penguin in the background carrying a purse? | ||
| Mikej |
Mr. and Mrs. Penguin were out taking a walk one day to do a little shopping when they happened upon a sleeping Polar bear. Mr. Penguin said "here hold my beer in your purse and watch this". Me thinks Rusty is about to clash the cymbals and wake up the legal department with his patchwork. Nice job, by the way, Rusty. Looks good. I suppose the bear could be symbolic of Blake as well who is probably about to wander in with the sponsorship speech. Either way it will be an interesting show. | ||
| Mikej |
BCBRAG had pre-approval of their BRAG patch design. Their design was later deemed not acceptable and they had to remove it from circulation. No answer and no response is not approval. You'll probably be told you have to remove the Buell name from the patch unless the patch along with the WillieG reference could be considered a parody in which case it comes possibly under a whole different set of rules and regs. Maybe change Buell to "Erik's" or something like that, put some rollerskates on the flying horse (didn't call it a Pegasus). I don't know, do what you want to do, I'm just watching the show and making a few comments from the audience. I do like the patch though. | ||
| Crw |
Love the patch! This may get very entertaining. Though it looks like satirical parody to me, I doubt the Court(s) would accept me as an expert witness. |
