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#1
07-16-2003, 10:51 AM
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buell blast
i am looking to buy a bike. first i was interested in a cbr600 but i started looking at the threads and saw that it would not be good bike to start out on for being 17 and and my only riding experience is ona four wheeler. so now i am thinking about getting a buell blast i believe is what they call it i saw at the dealership for 4500 and i think it was like a 500cc. what do you alll think?
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#2
07-16-2003, 11:56 AM
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There are far more reliable 500s out there than the Buell Blast, but I'm a hard-core japanese sportbiker. My recommendation: a used mid-90s Kawasaki Ninja 500r or EX500 (it's the same bike with 500ccs but it's equivalent to a different trim line in a car in a way). EXCELLENT maneuverability, very forgiving, but also provide enough "get-up-and-go" to last you more than a year.
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#3
07-17-2003, 10:23 AM
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I own a buell blast that i purchased about 4 weeks ago and its by far the best bike i drove (including the 500R) the only things i should mention are that on the blast you dont lean over the gastank you always sit up. And the shifter is a little touchy at first (get used to hearing grinding sounds) but i absolutly love the bike.
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#4
07-17-2003, 01:15 PM
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Civic, here is a lesson that most bikers just learn over the process of time: ignore whatever a Harley or Buell rider says.
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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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#5
07-18-2003, 10:18 AM
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Sorry R1 i didnt know owning a buell or harley was a sin. however if civiv LX dosent get a buell im not going to cry about it, I just hope he dosent become as arogant and closed minded as you are.
Give me a break ignore ALL buell and harley riders?
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#6
07-18-2003, 11:28 AM
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#7
07-18-2003, 05:19 PM
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Well I suppose that was a bit rather of a rash statement, however even after thinking about it, I would still say to ignore about 95% of all harley riders, and roughly 50% of all buell riders. I suppose after just being out with different riding groups, sportbike and cruisers, that damn near every negative view I have of motorcycles comes from Harley products, and specifically their riders. And if you want to go as far as to call me closed minded? please, I have owned a motorcycle from most of the manufactureres out there. How many Harley (and some buell) riders would ever recommend a different brand of motorcycle as possibly being the best to get? So please, I base my opinions off my personal experience, which although might not be true every single time, more times then not it is.
I respect every other motorcycle rider untill they say or do something stupid, or that I dissaprove of. I do not ever recommend a Buell or Harley simply because of they are plagued with problems a great deal more than other motorcycles. Granted not ever single person may have had problems with theirs, but on a whole they are just not nearly as dependable.
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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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#8
07-20-2003, 06:19 PM
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yeah your right. i havent had my buell long (about a month now) but i havent seen any problomes and after yesterday going back to the dealer for a tuneup i see what you meen about not liking harley and buell riders the people i talked to where assholes but still. i stand by my opinion i never would criticize any group of riders maby there bikes but theres a lot more variety in humans then there are in bikes. well i guess thats just my little rant for today.
 oh and i would have much rather have a ducati monster than a buell but the money just didnt work that way.
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#9
07-21-2003, 02:24 AM
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 I haven't even been riding that long and I've come to the same conclusion. I always try to wave to other riders, and most guys on imports will wave back, or beat me to it. Yet, when you get on a hardly you some how forget. I've met only one guy that was nice and rode a hardly, but he used to ride rockets. I have little respect for anyone who is dumb enough to not wear a helmet, and I have yet to see anybody on a hardly dangerous (other than Cops) with one on.
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07-21-2003, 10:38 AM
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07-25-2003, 04:11 PM
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#13
08-08-2003, 09:16 AM
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I agree.. I like the styling of the Buells but the reliability issues are keeping me from ever seriously considering buying one. If your looking for a good beginner bike there are a lot of very reliable japanese bikes out there. You may want to check into the GS500. Very comfy, decent power for a n00b rider, and bulletproof motors.
500Rs, and 250Rs are also bikes that I would recommend starting out on. There are a few older bikes like FZR400 that wouldnt be to bad, but they arent easy to find.
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#14
08-10-2003, 10:55 PM
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#15
11-02-2003, 02:41 AM
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I know this is an old topic, but for searches sake...
I don't trust my Buell to get me down the street, but I do trust my wife's Blast. And I think the 95% ratio is about right, and for Muell owners it is more like 75% (instead of 50%). My wife put 14,000 miles on the Blast last year without incident. It starts every morning without complaint. It has made several 450 mile trips (each way). Has been down on the freeway (was cut off, and locked up the front tire in the wet). Bike just keeps on putting. It is a lot of fun to ride, thing just loves to corner. However, be sure to test out other bikes first. And do not buy one new. Buy one used, for around $2000 ($2500 tops, absolute).
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