Buell is nothing but trouble...
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i can understand these post. i have only had my 1125r for about a month. rode this past sat and sunday and i constantly had to keep an eye on the speed odometer. i would be riding along feeling like i was going about 50-55 and i would look down and i would be running 75-80...bike is so quick and smooth.
NookieMonster
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My dad will be 50 this year and he just bought an X1W with race kit a couple months back. He had one identical to it 7 years ago and traded it on a VTX 1800(worst idea he has ever had). After I got my bike every time he takes it out I hear him get about a 1/4 mile away on the gravel and hit pavement. 1st on the rev limiter, 2nd hits limiter, 3rd hits it too and then pulls good way thru 4th. This happens everytime!
Snosnake65
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I love it! A flick of the wrist and lap traffic is history!
upthemaiden
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For you guys with the loud exhausts, how much attention do you think you get compared to what some kid gets on his I4 sportbike? Obviously when you hear an inline 4 coming you know what it is and you know it's coming fast. I would think cops would hear the sportster engine coming and think "eh it's just a harley" and you could get away with a couple tickets because they wouldn't expect you to come flying by going 100mph. Sneak attack. Is this not the case I'm guessing??
I also love living in the city. You've gotta do something real stupid to get pulled over here. Not like when I was younger and lived at my parents. Every night coming home from my girlfriends house around midnight at 5mph under the speed limit I'd get tailed for miles, probably by the same 1-2 cops. They'd just tail me until I hit the next township and they'd pull a u-turn. On occasion they'd make up an excuse to pull you over just to argue with you and let you go.
I also love living in the city. You've gotta do something real stupid to get pulled over here. Not like when I was younger and lived at my parents. Every night coming home from my girlfriends house around midnight at 5mph under the speed limit I'd get tailed for miles, probably by the same 1-2 cops. They'd just tail me until I hit the next township and they'd pull a u-turn. On occasion they'd make up an excuse to pull you over just to argue with you and let you go.
even with my very loud D&D where I'm at my buell gets very little speeding attention but I have had cops drive by with the ally lights on (I thought I was in trouble for sure) and asked at stop lights by a few city cops what I was riding. [cool]
the inline's get more negative attention here. But I do think its the sound. most of the time cops and everybody else give me double take when they see the bike after hearing it come up. too busy staring at the bike to check the radar gun.
the inline's get more negative attention here. But I do think its the sound. most of the time cops and everybody else give me double take when they see the bike after hearing it come up. too busy staring at the bike to check the radar gun.
upthemaiden
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Haha, that's what I'm hoping. I was surprised to hear so many people had collected so many tickets. Not to say the bikes are slow, but now that I don't have the desire to play on the highway and abuse my redline just on the way back and forth from the food store, I was thinking the Buell would be a good choice for me take my time and just cruise a little more.
Stevenc150
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That's whats great about the Buell, it does whatever you want aside from crotch rocket top speeds.
1st time out, thought, "I'll take a nice ride and check out the countryside". It'll do it, only thing is, it begs to be ridden leaned-in and aggressive. My perspective on why I bought it changed dramatically then and never regretted it.
It's the addictive torque! You're 0 to "ticket" speed so fast you don't realize it. And what fun. [up]
upthemaiden
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Yeah, that's what I much prefer. Even when I had planned on picking up a gsxr750, I fully intended to gear it down to a top speed of 135-140. I'm not even gonna pretend like I trust myself with, or want to be on top of something with a top speed of 175-180+. Even my wife's GS500 that I've been playing on is geared down enough that it tops out at 95mph and it doesn't bug me at all.
upthemaiden
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Speed is pretty much relative. If you want to feel fast the last place you should be riding is a straight wide open highway, more time should be spent on skinny roads and in tight traffic. Even my bicycle feels ridiculously fast at 20mph if I take it in rush hour traffic downtown. I guarantee you there isn't a gsxr1000 or R1 that could keep up with me down there.
xtreme6669
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I have had my 1125cr since sep. and I have 2 20+ criminal speeding tickets on it...
haha yeah happened to me i was doing 105 in a 55 on this back road that by the river by my house and this car was going the speed limit of course way to slow for a buell on that road and i passed the car i looked over and it was my best friend and he tried to catch up to me needless to say chevy cavaliers cannot catch up to buell and i looked in my mirror to see how far he was behind me and thats when i saw the lights so needless to say i said a few curse words pulled over and the cop pulled behind me and he freaked out on me because he told me to turn the bike off even though it already was but what he heard was the fan running but to make a long story short i only got away with a 74 dollar fine because i crossed the double yellow and when the cop was walking away he said (oh by the way nice looking bike) so far only ticket on the buell but we will see when i get home from afgahnistan
