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hi, about big bore, i have one. What can i say. It is rising performance, top speed, acceleration etc. but bike start to be "not to ride". The torque and power is so big that it is difficult to have two wheel on the ground. Till 3 gear you need to fight with throttle. (it is like in motocross when you have cr 500 ). There is a lot to do with big bore, i change exhaust for remus, ecm, crankshafts, lifters, it is good to buy new heads and progressive springs. If you put this all you will have 140 - 145 hp. Is it worth? NO. It is better to invest in good tires sport shock and riding skill improvement.
 
140 145 hp wow theres that word again WOW,,thats over a 60 hp gain from stock...i assume our talking rear wheel hp also........i have no comment
 
I have two bikes an 06 ZX-10R and the Buell XB12s By far the buell is more fun around town (I like to jump things) and in tight twistys. The Ten is by far a faster machine,but on the roads its completly unuseable. I mean 110mph in first gear u never have the room to stop.... That said, I have no problems hanging with, and smoking the 600s, and most litre bikes on the buell in any situation except the open highway runs... Just keep her in the red and drive with your clutch. lack of power is not the issue its the slow building revs of the twin that hurts you.
 
I have a 05' XB9SX, Race ECM, Buell Race Exhaust, Custom airbox, & TFI. Yet with all the mods I've done to my bike, can never keep up with my others guys that all have japs on the highway (I DON'T DO SPEEDING EXCEEDING 105-160 MPH ON ANY ROAD, I LOVE MY LIFE MORE THAN MY BIKE). "BUT" while riding thru the canyons, well that's another story.

As for "maybebuell". If you do not have a buell, than why are you so passionate about your argumental discussion here in the "BUELL" forum pal?

Address the concerns as requested, if not go stir up issuse elsewhere buddy.
 
maybebuell no offense intended. Honestly it doesn't matter what kind of bike that any of us have, AS LONG AS WE ALL HAVE BIKES (we're family). I too am passionate about bikes. In my group of riders, I am actually the only guy riding a buell, kind've sucks sometime, but hey.

Ride safe, and think straight
 
*clarification point*

As long as we all have, had, or will have bikes.

Or just plain old respecting bikers while riding 4 wheels next to one.
 
only1... had all kinds of bikes started with metrics when younger...in the 80s all 1100 cc and up after about 9 metrics ... went to harleys for twenty years good friend owned a shop was a great mechanic... while everyone else was falling for all the hp ads in mags and at the harley shop ,buying high end performance parts.......i listened to my buddy and invested very little compared to what the other guys invested...well i got mine dynoed first and the results got out...all the hotshots with the big name parts figured wow if he got 90 hp we should be at 100 110...lol well few guy dynoed there bikes 72 74 hp...well you should of seen them squirm....everything from the dyno broke to there rear wheel was smoking on the dyno drum could not get grip lol ... funny they never wanted to race....bit i raced everyone and anybody....i wanted to see what worked and what didnt...so when i hear thing that i know are a waste of money i get a little jumpy......know i know why the old timers say nothing...because they know knowone is going to listen anyway ,, when it comes to hp you have to learn yourself...last harley i had and my buddy built had 112 hp and 127 tq rode that for 5 years,, he died and i sold the bike because without him to work on it it wasnt the same...and if you know harleys and ride them hard they always need work..thats my rant for the week ps could of ran a higher lift cam with a smaller duration and make closer to 118,,,120 hp...put would of lost 8 10 pounds of torque.. shocked the **** out of a lot of metrics....buell is a harley motor nothing new to making power on a 50 year old design
 
maybebuell,

what i don't understand is why are your always talking hp?
harley's or any other low-reving engine doesn't have any use for hp. once the hp's start to kick in, your almost at redline.

twin's are built for torque...pure g's! and that's what makes them fun to ride.

that is also why it takes skill to drag a twin, you need to control the pull and perform excellently timed & short shifts.
 
Lefox i agree 100% about the torque more tq down low more fun in the street not a better feeling when riding just to crack the gas and get tire spin....think both metric and buells when drag racing both get to shift point pretty quick....question never draged raced a v at the track only metric ...will a buell get into 5th before crossing the finish 1/4 mile....not a trick question lol .. stock metrics i draged at track id cross finish in 4th gear....something a dyno tuner told me when tuning my vtwins over the years (John Golden) one of the best around ...you can gain hp and not gain tq mater of fact you can lose torque trying to gain hp.....but evey time you gain tq you gain hp at that rpm...what does it all mean lol
 
maybebuell you seem to know a lot about bikes [up]. Sounds like you've had some really great experiences with them as well. That's awesome.

I've never raced or been on the track with any of my bikes, but who knows maybe someday I'll be posting my first track day experience.
 
that's true, torque gain is also hp gain, but compared...the % of torque is higher than the hp you gain.
 
only...one year during the summer went to track about 7 times grudge night mostly street bikes... had a ball in the mid 80s ,,and the one thing i noticed.. all the bikes getting the best times where the ones kept stock..others had pipes carb ...talking same models bike....i had pipe and jet change 11.2 time... this old times on the same bike stock would beat me every time snd seen it time and time again with other bikesstreet bikes .....well he may not of been that old i was just young lol......do rollons against my friends v65 magnia in a few different gears after i did pipe jets ect...ran stronger stock....and twenty years of rollon fun with the harleys,,, and any so called race pipe thats wide open your down big power tq in tthe street....ill shup up for a while..need weather to change and start riding
 
My friend and I did a 5th gear pull race one night on the freeway. He was on his Ninja 650R. I immediately got 2 bike lengths on him, then he walked by [sad] I guess it was because he wasn't in his tall gear like I was so his ratio wasn't 1.1, but I was still upset. Maybe my torques took a day off.
 

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