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Reepicheep


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 09:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Court Said:

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Bill:

Ya might want to think about it....I am about to get stirred anough to ask for a special clearance to do one of my SPECIAL TOURS.

Frankly, you wouldn't believe what you'd see at Buell. We took a group of TEAM ELVES through, including Blake and Aaron, a couple years ago. Pretty amazing stuff.

Court






I can't possibly go, we have another baby on the way, and lots of other travel commitments this year.

So, naturally, I will probably go anyway. Where should I meet the guy in Aerostitch on the other XB9SX? Toledo OH? Ft. Wayne IN? Tell me when and where, and its a done deal! You *do* actually ride that thing, right? ; )



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Whistle
Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 10:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Anon & Court,
I was pretty sure that what I had heard was correct...but now I know FER SURE! Thanks. That was one of the things I really liked about Buells, and I had been telling my friends that it was hand made when I show it to 'em so I'm glad I wasn't fibbin!

Most people seem pretty awestruck when they hear that my beautiful little bike was handmade...like some exotic italian sports car...or the carbon fiber for the NASA X-38. I spent the morning today working with the guy who hand laid almost entirely on his own the carbon fiber for the X-38. (TOO COOL!)

At anyrate, I'm looking very much forward to coming home at some point! I wanted to do Dave's BF&R, but the distance really put me off.

When is the Home Coming anyhow? Just ordered some of them new saddlebags for my "Night Cross" so I'll be ready to hit the road shortly...

On another note when I was working for Siemens Building Technologies doing HVAC work we had a government contract to do some work and ALL the parts had to be made in USA. Some crazy piece of work that was!!! Some of the electrical boxes we needed to use were only made by one company...and they WEREN'T made in USA...the parts only accounted for maybe $150 of the multimillion dollar contract, but it held up work for weeks and caused all kinds of problems until we could get them to agree to let us use the friggin part...everything else...screws, nails, glue sheet metal-you name it-all made in USA baby!

Wow space ships to glue to motorcycles...I think I covered a broad enough spectrum here in one post.

Court and Anon-if ya'll happen to have a chance, thank an Elf for me-I love my bike.

Ride safe,
Nick
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Glitch


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 10:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

There.
Thanks Mike.
I changed it, but you gave it the name.
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Court
Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 10:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Glitch - Thank you.

Nick: Your thanks have been shared with the proper folks this morning.

You know....let me think about this. I'm wondering if there would be any interest in the "Magical Mystery Tour". Not necessarily better or worse than the simple walk/explain, but I sense a need, on the part of some folks, to gain a keener insight into the passion and emotion that goes into your Buells.

These bikes are indeed hand-CRAFTED. Don't let any of the high tech machinery or systems used to assure the system is working and consistent fool you.

For precisely the same reason NASA places an Astronaut in the Shuttle, Buell stations a passionate person at the "smart end" of that computer linked device.

I can tell you a story of Nate, the guy who used to put the 1998 X1WL's in the crate. He had a "direct link" with me. Customer service, good "Buell Style" customer service begins long before the parts start getting bolted together. Nate had an eye. Even after a bike had been through "rolls" testing and had it's boxes checked, he'd catch one or two a year. Remind me to tell you the story of the bike, about to be crated to go to Australia, he sniffed out.

Many factories train and employee REALLY skilled and dedicated workers. Many will aspire, few will achieve, the level of passion and love that go into your Buell.

Yeah...I may have to SHOW you.

Court
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Steve_mackay


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 10:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Court,

I'd be interested in the "Magical Mystery Tour". And seeing as how I live about 20 minutes from the Buell factory, I could go at a moments notice : )
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Mikej


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 10:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"Magical Mystery Tour"

A thorough tour of the more public facility is nice, but a limited pre-cleaned tour of the "other" building is even more enlightening. Seeing a row of test mules, seeing the stress tester in action, seeing real clay models, seeing the ergonomic position tester device in person, really add to the appreciation of what is done. (And sometimes you get to see a real magic act if you pay attention and watch a whole bike magically disappear behind a curtain and be phantomed out a side door unbeknownst to 98% of the tourists on the tour. ; ) )

Yep, good stuff indeed.
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Glitch


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Count me in Court.
I wouldn't miss it!
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Steve_mackay


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 11:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I *MIGHT* be able to arrange the same type of tour at the HD plant with one of my brothers. But unfortunately, I'm pretty sure we couldn't get a tour of his area. Not many outsiders are allowed in the R&D dyno/experimental mechanics area any more : (
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Reepicheep


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 11:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Court, sounds like Glitch is meeting me near Cincinnati on his 9s, where were we going to meet up with you again on your 9sx?

; )

Who else! C'mon!
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Glitch


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 11:39 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ditto the plan Bill.
Who else! C'mon!
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Court
Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 12:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

>>>> Not many outsiders are allowed in the R&D dyno/experimental mechanics area any more

Duh, of course not.

Let me be perfectly clear. In the LONG SHOT we could pull this off, the intent would be to peek behind the "passion curtain", not any "product curtains".

Covert development processes are for sound business reasons. Trust me, the folks who need to know, do.

No, my intent was rather to reveal a glimpse of more the "why" than the "what". The Buell community is now, I sense, fully in tune with the fact that Buells really ARE different and are hungering to know why.

I have had fine, well read folks, query me...."with all the money and resources some of the established manufacturers have, they could do what Buell is doing if they wanted".

I laugh as a Harley rider might when someone tried to prove chonchos do nothing. If you think money or physical assets can be reconfigured, refocused or concentrated in any fashion to replicate what THE ELVES do, you haven't even the most rudimentary understanding of Buell.

If we were going to do this, I'd have to ask folks to do some homework prior to participating. This would not be the Disney World "just follow me" gig. To understand what you'd see it would be essential you do some advance reading and preparation.

To understand and appreciate the work of the "American Dreamer" you need to first understand that the motorcycle is the end product. Although stunning, the glory that makes Buell unique and irreplicable comes and goes to work each day.

I sound passionate about this stuff?

: )

Geeeshhh....you guys!
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Glitch


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 12:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What ever it takes, and what ever I can experience, will be great by me.
I was happy just to get to go to Home Coming this year.
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Whistle
Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 01:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Court-

I'm in. Can we do it after the snow melts though? I don't have money for snow tires right now! : D

What kind of reading? I just finished reading "State of Fear" by Michael Crichton and could use some more good reading.

In your last post you mentioned an "American Dreamer."
I think that phrase speaks volumes.

All of us here to some extent are dreamers with our own bikes-whether it's something simple like riding the bike to the best of our ability or something complicated like putting in a big bore kit. The fact that our motorcycles embody the realization of the dreams one man had I think gives us all a feeling of pride and happiness that one of our brothers was successful in seeing his dream made a reality-and gives us some hope that maybe one day we will fulfill our dreams. I think you could have put it more eloquently and succinctly than I but I hope you got the gist of what I am sayin here. (Hey my wife is the English major-they didn't teach us eloquence in Tech. writing!)

later,
Nick
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Reepicheep


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 01:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Whistle... go pick up a copy of Wild at Heart by John Eldridge. You may have to go to a Christian bookstore to get it, but don't let that stop you ; )

Based on your second paragraph, I think you might like it. If you hate it (and you might, it is not a milktoast book), I will buy it off you and give it to someone else.

Court... the gauntlet has been thrown, not even a nibble?
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Smitty


Posted on Wednesday, February 02, 2005 - 06:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Tempting trip indeed. If im still employed I might make it this year.

Court will you be there if so maybe I can bring some of those goodies the wife made that you ate with chopsticks.


Tim
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Court
Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 08:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It is.....a GLOBAL ECONOMY.

Check out my customer name ......
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Glitch


Posted on Thursday, February 03, 2005 - 08:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Korean dry air.
Sure beats Atlanta's brown air.
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