What makes Buell so great anyway?

[webhustler]

I would be interested in why you think that the Buell brand of motorcycles are the choice for you. Do they handle better, more mechanically sound, or better priced? I might be looking for another bike in the near future, and grew up on Honda dirt bikes. I will be usinfg the bike for going back and forth to work and hopefully doing a little travel every year. If you think that Buell would be worth looking into, please tell me why. I would rather hear it from you than a salesperson. Thank you. What got you onto a Buell in the first place? Did someone else get you into them, or was it a personal decision?

[buellosaurusrex]

I ride an earlier tube-frame M2 Cyclone. I tried to resist the siren's song, but the more I resisted, the more appealing the bike became! It's in the design; the looks, the sound of a 1200 V-twin, the incredible balance and flickable handling. It's in the 100+HP, the 89+ ft/lbs of torque, the way it shakes at stop lights; the way people in cars stare and mumble "What the f*** is that?" It's in the snarl from the tailpipe when I roll it on....not a high-pitched howl, but a gutteral growling; almost panther-like, in a way that only an American V-twin can sound. It's in the way I can change both spark plugs before most others can even get the wires off. It's in the way this machine knows what I want to do before I even think it. Yes, I have Jap bikes. And yes, some of the newest machines will out-perform my Buell. But they don't have as much personality.:D

[xangomoto]

buellsaurus is right. my last bike was a 98 buell. i had a D&D race exhaust on it with a power commander and a forcewinder intake. it sounded like a top fuel dragster. plus buell isn't going super wide on back tires like alot of japanese bikes are starting to do. which is totally opposite if you want a good handling bike. i grew up riding dirtbikes and the buell was almost as easy to man handle going up a twisty road as a dirtbike with slicks. i will take a great handling bike over straightline speed. it takes more skill to destroy twisty mountain roads and tracks. of course if you pull up to a japanese liter bike they will take you off the line but in the proper hands the buell like a scalpel in the hands of a surgeon.

as far as price and everything goes everything is competetive. and mechanically sound... its a harley motor, unless its the new 1125 which is made by rotac i think. its gonna leak all harleys do. but the sound of an enormous pushrod twin is amazing. when you pull up next to a 600 class bike and you think to yourself, "i have one of those motors in each cylinder," you will get a big ear to ear grin inside your helmet

[08Buell]

Well put xango!

[xangomoto]

thanks. what kind of buell do you have 08?

[BH121869]

First off I really like all of the Buells. If I were not so happy with my Sportster S and Ultra I'd have one and may someday. But to say all Harley's leak oil or leak anything is not true. I have had a few since 1970 and never had any leaks on any of them. They were all reliable and tough. In my younger days we really put them through the testing. I can only believe Buell has improved on all of this while adding more power and the better handling. I'm over 60 and still wind them up to test the rev limiter now and then with no issues. I have ridden one Buell and loved it. I don't think the wife would go for three bikes in the garage.

[xangomoto]

First off I really like all of the Buells. If I were not so happy with my Sportster S and Ultra I'd have one and may someday. But to say all Harley's leak oil or leak anything is not true. I have had a few since 1970 and never had any leaks on any of them. They were all reliable and tough. In my younger days we really put them through the testing. I can only believe Buell has improved on all of this while adding more power and the better handling. I'm over 60 and still wind them up to test the rev limiter now and then with no issues. I have ridden one Buell and loved it. I don't think the wife would go for three bikes in the garage.


I was making a generalization, many appologies. But most people know that from the factory the harleys in general and sportsters in particular dont have the best bottom end seals. mine leaks but i do have 40k on it, and it sees redline a little mor often than most i am assuming. but i love her anyways. my friend rides a yamaha fz600 and he gives me all sorts of crap cuz my baby will mark her spot after a long hard ride. but harleys mark their territory so the little girly japanese bikes dont get confused and go on the wrong side of the parking lot. the only bike i would like to ride better than my buell is the new ducati 1098 but who wouldnt.

[buellosaurusrex]

Buell advertises to make their bikes, "Built from the rider down". Question is, what type of rider is Buell building their bikes down from?

Me. They're building them for me. And if I could own them all, I would!

There are a few professional racers racing the XBs now, and I expect moreso now that the 1125R has debuted.

[xangomoto]

Question is, what type of rider is Buell building their bikes down from? Because it sure isn't professional racers and it sure isn't anyone who like the more popular import bikes who have been in business forever and have sold more bikes.

actually Eric Buell raced motorcycles in the 80s and he decided to come up with a design for a motorcycle that was better handling than anyone else. he did just that but the harley powerplants havent had the hp numbers to be great race machines. now with the new 1125 built rotax motor the hp is a level playing field. i want to see where buell is at at the end of the season.

as far as everyday rides go the buell is top notch. all the torque you could ever want to cruise around town and up mountain roads. most guys that ride the little crotch rockets around southern california where i live dont know what they are doing on a bike. they shift like 6 or 7 grand too early and they just want to chrome out a japanese bike. i am a rider from a young age and the buell is probably top 5 best handling sport bikes out there. excluding supermoto which is a freak machine anyways.

[olds_cool63]

I'll let you know what makes them great if I ever get one. So far I only rode a Blast! Some of the Buell's look good to me. Some look like crap. American-Made? Who cares? I just want a good bike. A friend at work has a Ulysses which looks cool and comfortable. Maybe he'll let me take it around the block. I see some used one's on Craigslist every now and then for a good deal.

Thanks!

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[Kid2Nite]

What makes Buell so great anyway?

The speed......0 to coffin always get the blood flowing...and that's not just the buell.

[xangomoto]

speed, not on the blast. but you get the lightning or the 1125r and now you are talking some speed. but then again you could get rear ended by a freight truck at a stop light and die doing 0 in a car or a truck so thats why i ride and im not in a cage everyday.