Buell My old Yankee steed

[Don the Don]

A BUELL XB1200X Ulysses, Not a bad bike and a better platform for the Buell built engine than anything Hardly Ableson could produce, The Torque was awesome lifting the front wheel in any gear, the motor was all American with Italian frame and component's and Japanese suspension, brakes clocks and switchgear and other lecky bits, I assume it had a few chinky bits in as well.

 

[Judd Dredd]

I like that alot

 

[stevethegoolie]

A lad I used to work with had a Buell. He loved it. Come to think of it, I seem to remember that his wife also had one. Must have been good!

 

[Stalker43]

Why did Buells fail?
Stalker

 

[Don the Don]

Harley pulled the plug on them and sold MV Augusta at the same time as Harley themselves where in a bad way,

 

[Stalker43]

Harley pulled the plug on them and sold MV Augusta at the same time as Harley themselves where in a bad way,

Oh dear, I’m so ignorant....I didn’t even know HD had own MVA, and, I thought they were common or garden Harley engines in Buells until I was enlightened!
Cheers, Stalker.

 

[Don the Don]

Better Luck this time

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[Don the Don]

Looks like Buell are back, I hope they do well [this time] I think I prefered my old Uly to this though

New Buell machines and orders just weeks away | MCN

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[Foxy]

That sports bike looks oreyt, but that adventure bike is fowl as a hobbing foot!!

 

[Capt. Drunkey]

How do you pronounce ‚Buell‘ in English? Like I would say „wuell“ instead of „well“?
In German it would be “Büll“.

 

[Doc Strange]

How do you pronounce ‚Buell‘ in English? Like I would say „wuell“ instead of „well“?
In German it would be “Büll“.

I think that's it.

Mate who had one of their sportsbikes loved the handling - regularly did trackdays on it.

DS

 

[Sarky B’stard]

How do you pronounce ‚Buell‘ in English? Like I would say „wuell“ instead of „well“?
In German it would be “Büll“.

The answer to that depends on 'which English'?! British and Americans can vary.

I've always pronounced it b'you-ell but plenty Americans might say boo-ell. You certainly wouldn't get an umlaut from either side!

 

[Don the Don]

Not for me I have to say prefered the old stuff, but good luck to them

Here's The New Buell SuperCruiser, with 175 Horsepower! - Adventure Rider

It’s here. Buell’s new Super-Cruiser has been officially unveiled, and it is certainly a […]

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[Scrappy]

Not for me I have to say prefered the old stuff, but good luck to them

Here's The New Buell SuperCruiser, with 175 Horsepower! - Adventure Rider

It’s here. Buell’s new Super-Cruiser has been officially unveiled, and it is certainly a […]

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That's a wrong un

 

[Doc Strange]

That's a wrong un

Agree - don't look anything special and I can't really see what it is for.

if I wanted a performance cruiser, I'd go for a Triumph R3.

DS

 

[MartytheMartian]

To me it just looks like another effort to build a sort of futuristic Harley style bike. It would be nice if the Yanks got themselves a wee bit of an imagination and tried something other than the V-twin cruiser style.

 

[Don the Don]

To me it just looks like another effort to build a sort of futuristic Harley style bike. It would be nice if the Yanks got themselves a wee bit of an imagination and tried something other than the V-twin cruiser style.

Agree, But if they want speed why use that type of platform when Buell had it right in the past, all that horse power on things that don't handle as well as a cafe racer

 

[MartytheMartian]

I guess they think that their main market, the US itself, has the V-twin cruiser so ingrained in their minds as what a bike should be that they don't believe they would be able to sell a cafe racer or sports style bike in large enough quantities and even outside the US I think people think V-twin, heavy cruiser when it comes to American Iron.