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02-18-2003, 02:30 AM
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Good bike for a new new newbie?
Whats up all,
I've been looking at getting a bike instead of a 240... just not completely sure yet... I want a bike that looks faster than it is... I don't trust myself with a really fast bike... It needs to be fast... and kind of cheap... I'm still new to all this bike stuff... -Grendel |
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02-18-2003, 06:24 AM
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Get a Buell.
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02-18-2003, 12:07 PM
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But those aren't cheap
 Im looking anywhere from 1k-3k... I've seen a lot of bikes in that price range... just aren't sure which ones are good... -Grendel |
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02-18-2003, 01:16 PM
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I have seen used ones in that price range..... New ones are only 8,000 but thats not my point. I have seen 1997 models for dirt cheap. Just look around real good. If you can not find something i'll help you out looking on the internet.
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02-18-2003, 07:28 PM
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Cool man, I saw a guy at our church that had one of those... it looked pretty good...
Aren't they made by Harley? Someone told me they were... I wonder how reliable they are... -Grendel |
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02-18-2003, 08:18 PM
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From what I have heard they were made by a guy who worked for Harley. He left Harley and started his own motorcycle shop type deal. Today I think Harley does own half of them or something like that. If I can get a hold of the history on Buell and better information, i'll either send it through PM or post it in here. Which ever is best for you. I believe they are quite reliable.
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02-18-2003, 08:39 PM
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Websites I found that talks about Buell's history..
http://www.dcbrag.org/history.htm http://americansportbikenight.inspir...es/storyReader$85 http://www.buell.com/selector.asp Check out these prices on the Buell's shown in this next link... http://www.cycletrader.com/adbrowseprocess2.html. Most of these bikes are in Ohio, I know that will not help you out any, but the prices on what the Buell Blasts run for may suprise you. This will help you out some...though. http://www.greatvehicles.com/cgi-bin...ngs/search.cgi |
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02-18-2003, 09:39 PM
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Go Japanese. There is a reason why they dominate the market today... :o
Start off with something like a Kawasaki Ninja 250, but only after you take the MSF course.
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02-22-2003, 01:23 AM
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02-22-2003, 06:05 AM
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What was the recall? Probably wasn't very important or something that was in a hurry to get fixed.
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02-22-2003, 11:04 AM
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just some recalls for Buells:
Front Motor Mount System in all 1997 - 1998 models; Negative Battery Cable in 1996 - 1998 S1 Lightning and 1998 S1 White Lightning models; Rear Brake Line in 1999 Lightning X1 models; Side Stand Switch in all 1996 - 1999 models, except S2 and S2T Thunderbolt models; Fuel Tank Retention System in all 1995 - 1999 models, except Lighting X1 models; Fuel Tank Vent in all 1995 - 1999 models; Swing Arm in all 1995 - 1998 models; Shock Eye in all 1995 - 1998 models. all 97-98 models: Turn signal relay - not detectable. All 99 - 2000 models: Rear shock absober - SRP package installed. Clamp and strap around front eyelet, conical support around the rear of the can. There are alot more I could research into as well, this is just some... But please read through them and notice the severity of the recalls "Swing Arm in all 1995 - 1998 models", "Front Motor Mount System in all 1997 - 1998 models", "Clamp and strap around front eyelet". These types of recalls do not inspire faith into Buell. I would suggest getting an older jap bike preferrarbly around the 500-600cc size. My first bike was a 1980 Suzuki GS550, awesome bike to start on, I am glad to all god I didn't just hop on a sportbike and become a human crayon like so many other people have done.
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02-22-2003, 11:59 AM
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At least them recalls are not too expensive.....
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02-22-2003, 03:05 PM
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lol, you must not know motorcycle parts all to well, or have had to work on motorcycles before.
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......or if your a loser who drives a Civic with a type R sticker, racing stripes, blasting really bad rap music through your suburban area with your pretentious "I’m 21 but I’m still in high school girlfriend" while driving with your hand up on the top of the steering wheel exposing your underdeveloped pasty white vitamin deficient arm and wearing your backwards BS upside down visor hat while feeling the tacky as a "Florida vacation" single diamond earring in your ear, If you are this person...with any luck the sun in its precise celestial positioning as you putter on by...will reflect its scorching rays into your earring, bouncing intensely in your rearview, and finally making contact with your eyes through the thin cheap lense of $5 gas station Oakley rip off glasses.. then burning your retnal cones into smoldering melting gobs of ocular material as you are blinded by the purest form of energy in our known universe, and as you scream no one can help or hear you because they don’t know what’s going on since the weed whacker sound of your shitty tiny little muffler which makes the Civic sound like a 747 rages on underneath making everyone turn at disgust and comment to thier husbands or wives how much of a dickweed you are by attaching that automotive abnormality to your stock economical daily driver engineered by Japanese Automotive specialists to fit the needs for entry level business workers in their early 30's, however your pathetic looking $11,000 car which you want to look like a friggin spaceship with redundant ground effects is now out of control since you are blinded, and as your car plunges off the side of a cliff while you scream in the purest form of terror while knowing you have lived a horrid excuse for a life, by doing the bare minimum in every facet of existence, while getting fired from one pathetic job to another, the majority of your time spent slacking smoking dope, getting kicked out of school, polishing your "game" on sweet innocent underage girls you eventually 'de flower' through exhaustive yet succesful attempts to get the date rapist drugs you have stashed in the glove compartment, into your poor victims drinks while offering them to take the "Pepsi Challenge" while making your mother hate you, and your poor father who wishes he had a daughter instead of your pathetic ass, since a girl would be more of a man than you ever were, like the occasion when you were hit in the arm by a wild pitch in little league, then you cried like a fat kid who dropped his ice cream cone, I'm already envisioning you impacting the rocks below, in a spectacular fireball ignited from the residue hairspray from your girlfriend plastered in the fabric passenger seat, blinded by your earring, deafened by the loud "Bling Blingin", and I will smile and roll around on the ground in orgasmic delight while you are consumed by flames whose intense heat and fury will liquefy your bone marrow that I will use to make jelly beans out of and eat them happily at your funeral as midgets dressed like Alex 6005321 from "A Clockwork Orange" dance around your coffin to loud industrial style techno music and strobe lights, and I will sleep soundly at night knowing another successful conquest of Darwinism has been attained. |
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02-22-2003, 03:38 PM
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OK, I don't have a problem with Buell. They are american made and I think are faster than they look. I still think this is a good bike for a newbie no matter what.
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02-23-2003, 03:31 PM
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All joking aside, those recalls are VERY serious. Think of the sidearm recall as akin to a recall on BOTH axels on a vehicle. If your product is defective such that a MAJOR component of not only safety but NECESSITY needs to be replaced it puts the manufacturer in quite a pretty pickle. Those recalls are no where near cheap, and also insanely dangerous to riders should they not have been made.
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