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Thinking about Picking up a Harley..

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I can relate to misternikko's tough decision over what bike to buy. I agonize over my next bike purchase all the time. One day I'm going to sell my Buell and get a CBR1000RR, the next day I say screw it I'm keeping my Buell. Two days later I decide to keep the Buell and get a Honda VFR1200 because I need a sporty tourer. A week later, I'm like, what was I thinking, the BMW R1200R would be PERFECT! Gawd, I must be crazy, it never ends!
 
Well i see it like this. Our Buells are not so technilogically advanced that we couldent rebuild the motor five times in our life time. Parts to rebuild them and maintain them will always be availible. yes, there are many bikes out there with lots more hp, and more bells and whistles, but no other bike gives me the same feeling i get from my buell. I no longer ever need to look for another bike to fill my needs, so i guess im lucky. I notice everytime one person starts talking about another bike other then their buell a lot of other people start doing the same thing. I honestly could be happy with my buell for life, and because it can be easily be rebuilt why wouldent i ride it like i stole it. I say love your buell by rocking that bitch hard, and keep her for life. try to forget about what everyone else thinks and decide for yourself if your a bueller for life or not. Its ok if your not but at least figure it out for yourself. Im a bueller for life.
I was just watching that HD net show called Cafe Racer and a lot of those bikes were beautifull but i remember riding all those old bikes and non had the torque the buell has so my point is no matter how old the buell gets it will always be tougher and as fast and just as unique as any of the badass bikes of all time. There are only about what 70 thousand XB's in the world? I know thats close so you will always have a rare bike to that will become more colletable as time goes on. Hi my name is Keith I love my buell and im a bueller for life.
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I may be in the minority, but I don't understand owning a bike and not wanting to ride it much. I mean, I bought mine to ride, and ride the hell out of. It's like my stepmom buying a Firebird and not driving it, claiming it's a collector car and worth more with fewer miles.
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It has nothing to do with not wanting to ride it, it has to do with the desire to still be riding this bike 15 years from now. If Buell was still making bikes and parts I wouldn't think much about it, I'd ride the Buell everywhere until it couldn't be ridden anymore, get rid of it, and pick up a new Buell, but they're not and chances are this is the last XB I'll ever own. With how much of a nightmare it is just to find new parts, I'm not too interested breaking a random part in June, and having to wait until August because HD can even get the part in. Eventually getting that part in won't even be an option anymore. It's one thing if that happens when I'm leaned over in a turn and might lowside because I was taking a chance, but if I'm tripling the miles I put on my bike by running errands and everything else on it, I'm just increasing the chances of something bad happening to it, and increasing the chances that something bad might happen to it when I'm doing something other than riding it like it was meant to be ridden.

I'm also looking to pick up a 2nd bike to go along with my XB, but it's not because I don't want to ride my XB, I just don't want to waste it. When I want to go out for a serious ride, and do nothing but twisty rides for 4 hours, I pull out the Buell and ride it like it was meant to be ridden. If I need to spend 2 hours on the highway, or need to ride somewhere even though it's raining, or the roads might be salty because it's still close to winter, give me something cheap and japanese to put the rough miles on. That way I can keep the Buell around for all the good rides, and just use something I don't care about as much for the boring rides. My last bike was a triumph that I put 22k miles on within the first 2 years, it was a great bike and fun to ride, but at that rate, if I still had the bike it would have 80k miles on it, and chances are it wouldn't be running so hot. 40-50k of those miles probably would've been nothing but sitting in traffic on the highway, or riding to work in the rain, and even though it would've still been better than being in a car, they wouldn't have been the miles I really enjoyed.

It's like when giving someone a hard time for not wearing their good/favorite sneakers(that aren't made anymore) out to cut the grass because they don't want them to turn green, and you're just asking them why they'd buy a pair of shoes and not want to wear them. There's a time and a place.
 
^ exactly. No one said I was "leaving Buell". I think it was pretty clear that I was trying to preserve it.
 
I never intend on selling my Scg so I guess that makes me a bueller for life like my good friend Bright [up]

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Just read a few pages here... Saw the thread went to 4 pages and was hoping to see alot of bikes people wanted to get, except i see a bunch of writing

Whats the matter with a guy wanting to add on to his mechanical collection.

Im sure if money was no option the majority of people out there would have a few of everything.
Regardless if he wants to preserve his old one or is simply getting tired of it. I plan on buying a vulcan, shadow,r50, triumph or something dirt cheap (like my buell) that i can rip apart and build something cool

here a few pics of BIKES
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For people out there having hard times getting parts, you can look on ebay, you can post a WTB here, and there are still many places with lots of parts availible. HD is not the only place with parts. There will always be a few guys parting out bikes, and if you get on HD ass about parts the majically appear a lot faster. Now if your under warrenty then you need to step up your game and ride there asses. It is their job to produce those parts in a timely manner. Also, like every other cafe racer out there we customize. What parts cant people find? I keep hearing this panic, can someone tell me a part they cant find? Plus most real bikers mod their bikes so who fucking needs every little stock part anyway. HD will always make compatble parts for my 1200cc motor. Dont be affraid to ride it. Save it for what? Blow it up and rebuild it. Make it a diff color, get custom plastics from Germany, or 20 other countries. My buell will be around for ever. It wont always look the same cuz it will adapt and grow and with me. Stock sucks.
 
I dont want to hurt any feelings so let me refraze that. Stock usually sucks unless you have a warrenty and even with a warrenty you can do a lot to clean up the chez grators, reflectors,factory stickers, etc.. Im not knocking anyones bikes im just saying live your life dont put plastic on your couch. You know what im saying. We are all diff so express yourself, break out. Rock that Bitch!
 
Buy the F@#$ING harley dude, pardon my french every one, I'm going to buy one eventually. I have two buells a 1125r and an xb9s. I'm trying to get my wife to get her own bike but I don't think thats going to happen. So I have to get a bigger bike for both of us to ride on. Being in her forties she doesn't like the sport bikes any more, and I like some of the Harley models. I'll probably go for a dyna model, but we'll see. Any way if you want the bike buy it dude and don't look back.
 
I am gonna buy the Harley, i dont know about everyone else but they treat me well and know me by name when I walk into my dealer. Im really liking the blacked out 48 and will prob go with that one.

Bright - maybe im wrong, or you just have a air filter and drummer, but your bike looks pretty stock to me. I would even venture to say that mine looks more "modded". What you got done other than that? Breather re-route? O yeah and tank bag [smirk] No one is plastic wrapping their bike, you are still missing the point lol

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If I was gonna get a Sporty, which I might, it would be the 48. Good choice my friend, glad your getting that one (so I can ride it [smirk]). I think you will be happier with a 1200 and with the big front tire, it should ride better- more like a Glide. Just looks better IMO.
 
m.nikko if you like night rod you may like ducati diavel :D, although the price...
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personally if I ever considered a cruiser it would be Moto Guzzi Bellagio, it can lean in corners, unlike HD.
On the other hand it is true nothing sounds like HD&Buell.
 
I much as I adore Ducati, and I own a 1098[cool], I would never buy a Diavel. Ducati should stick to making Race-Ready sportbikes because that's what they what they know and where they are dominant. I wouldn't buy a Ducati cruiser just like a I would never buy a Harley Sportbike, if they made one of course. If I ever got a cruiser I know it would be some variation of the V-Rod. Its just the only one that's stylish enough for me to plop my money down on. I've sat on them and they are pretty damn comfortable and I also like how low to the ground they are, like an Scg.
 
That pic of my bike is a week after I bought it. I avocate everyone breaking the mold this is not a pissing contest. Im not speaking to those who have done the little things like you have im speaking to those fear using up the rubber on their tires as if they are not replaceable. Im for people learning to tune and wrench their own bikes. Thats all im trying to do here. I just feel people are misinformed about the amount of availible parts. Thats all im saying. Im just trying to clear shit up. Help my brothers out. Why would anyone think someone is speaking to them if what I said did not apply to them?
 
Honestly in that picture its a buell. I know its a sportster/cafe. What i mean is its exactly what Erik Buell did. Made a light sporty cafe styled bike with a HD power plant. The diff is you can get a buell much cheaper and with way better handeling. Better forks, brakes, cooling, fuel injection, etc. That bike is basically a buell, in theory. Now if HD started building things like that stock, they could have an valid excuse as to why they dropped buell.
 
I sat on a 48 at the Harley plant tour, and totally dug the bike. There's some little things I'd change, but overall I think it's a really cool-looking cruiser.

Buells and Sportsters are cousins, like it or not.

I would love to own another bike, and if I had the cash, it would definitely be a H-D product, most likely a 48 or a Superlow. Even better....an old-school bobber with an XB motor!

FWIW, the Harley owners that talk shit about Sportsters being girl's bikes.....nothing says RUB fuckin douchenozzle more than some overweight asshole on a bagger talking shit about Sportsters.
 
i just cant understand how/why anyone would build a 800 cc bike with under 50 hp or a 1600 cc bike under 100 hp its like the yugo of bikes.
 

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