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99buellx1
| | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 09:32 pm: | 
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Leaving tomorrow 'bout 2:30 with Gearhead and BoomerM2 |
Bads1
| | Posted on Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 09:35 pm: |
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Awesome Craig haven't seen ya in a couple years.Damn time fly's. |
Coolice
| | Posted on Friday, June 02, 2006 - 06:23 am: |
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Leavin in a bit, see ya at Hal's for breakfast! |
Buellgirlie
| | Posted on Friday, June 02, 2006 - 10:54 pm: |
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howdy - see y'all at the track tomorrow morning! 
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Chrisb
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 08:49 am: |
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Homecoming was cool. MMMMM Donuts.
Won the Vanson textile jacket door prize! |
Outrider
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:20 am: |
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Chris...Congratulations! That is one fine jacket you won. |
Rex
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 09:00 pm: |
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good dinner at the appleton dealership Friday night, then over to TGIF till about 12:30 am.
we left appleton buell today at 9 am and made it to the track around 10:15. Free buell shirts at the demo truck. nice tent, sodas, water, and snacks.
rode a uly twice. Nice bike. smooth, really soaks up the bumps.
went over to revolution perfomance for tour. quite impressive shop. neat stuff. he does a lot of snow mobile stuff. Free shirt.
back to the track. superbike okay, kind of boring.
formula extreme. buells sounded good, really quiet. one lap it seemed like one buell made up about 4-5 places, then for some reason dropped back a couple of places.
word on the buell that didn't finish. for some reason they pulled the bike into the pits. it checked out okay, but then crashed in turn one.
Oh well. good folks.
tonight, going over to see erik and band play. REX
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:31 pm: |
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On Thursday Spidey shows up, bearing gifts!
then Grimace shows up
Friday morning, leaving for East Troy
Gas stop
another angle
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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Spidey's rear brake, doesn't work too well
Nice shifter too
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:38 pm: |
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Road Things contribution to the Buell Brat Feast on Friday night
Hmmmm, someone checking out a XB12Ss
Terry, my boss getting a brat
Matt's X1 on the dyno
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:45 pm: |
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parking lot filling up with Buells!
Bomber
A few non Buell riders show up too
Anthony
Grimace thinking "can I possibly eat any more brats?" for the record he had 8 of them
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:51 pm: |
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Diablobrian and son Kyle
good kid too, helped clean up afterwards Thanks Kyle
Group photo
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:53 pm: |
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another shot
Keith took the group photo for me, he should keep his day job as our service mgr
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 10:55 pm: |
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Luke's tattoo
and then the rain came,along with Steve and his group
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 11:03 pm: |
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and it rained
It only lasted a little while
I want to thank everyone that came to my little get together
Special thanks to,
Andy, who out of the goodness of his heart volunteered to cook all the brats for me. We went thru 240 brats!
Steve,Toni,Mikej,Diablobrian and kyle,No rice and a couple others I can't remember right now(sorry) that stayed late and helped me put everything away even thought they still had to ride back to Milwaukee. That was really cool of all of you.
My boss Terry for letting me throw the party and furnishing all the grub
Terry my GM that manned the parts dept
Shelly and Retta, that stayed 2 hours past closing to help with T shirt sales |
Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 11:14 pm: |
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rows and rows of Buells today at the track
Jon and Court
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Daves
| | Posted on Saturday, June 03, 2006 - 11:15 pm: |
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Outrider
| | Posted on Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 08:57 am: |
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Dave...Thanks for the pics. Wish I could have made it but had a last minute change of plans.
Can't wait to see the pics and read the stories from the rest of the folks that were there.
Sounds like another successful Buell Event to me. |
Kinger
| | Posted on Sunday, June 04, 2006 - 06:27 pm: |
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Looks like I missed a good time again.....
Maybe next year. |
Firemanjim
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 01:51 am: |
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What an awesome time. Dave S put on a great spread and ride for us to the races.Put a face to a bunch of people from here.Saw Road Thing,Spidey,CJ and tons of others from the past.Ended up carting Bombers bike back to his place as it was on my way heading to JB2's Indiana digs.
Got here late evening and shot the shite---and had fun working on Snail's turbo bike.Found/fixed his oil leak and got to fire that bad boy up---what a beast .Cannot wait to see some #'s.
Thanks to everybody for the hospitality and fun. |
Swampdog225
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 08:34 am: |
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DaveS,
Thanks for everything. We were late getting to Appleton, but really enjoyed it. It was an adrenaline rush to see so many Buell owners and fellow BadWebers in one spot. It was great to finally be able to put faces to all of the handles from here.
PS. The D&D setup was flawless and the sound is awesome. Once again, I want to thank you for meeting and exceeding my expectations with the pipe. |
Diablobrian
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 08:55 am: |
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Wow, what a great weekend!
Steve and Toni were great and gracious hosts,
I had a couple of small misfortunes, but they were really minimalized by the people that were
around. Steve, Toni, Tim (No_Rice), Carl, Stalker and others that I can't name off of the
top of my head.
The commercials were wrong. You do NOT meet the nicest people on a Honda.
Buell has that all wrapped up!
A special thanks to Hal's, Appleton H-D/Buell, the people at the factory, and of course
Erik Buell himself without whom this wouldn't have been possible.
An extra special thanks to the Friday night Buell relay team for your extraordinary efforts. |
Steve_mackay
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 01:02 pm: |
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Daves, no problem on the help cleaning up. The least we could do for feeding us late folk!
I was surprised how fast that place cleared out. Maybe they all knew it was time to clean up 
Brian, it was my pleasure to play host. You're ever in the neighborhood again, you guys have a place to stay.
And to those of you that don't know what the "Buell relay team" was, well... We had a bit of excitement after leaving Appleton. Riding down HWY41 toward Milwaukee, Diablobrian had a rear tire blow out on him. I was right behind him when it happened. At 1st glance, it seemed as if his kid was just moving around a bit on the rear pillon. Then the shaking got violent. So I backed way off, and gave Brian a bunch of room, and to keep any cars off his ass. He and Kyle handled it like pros, and brought her to a stop without incident. The "wakeup strips" broke the bead on his tire as he was coming to a stop. Making it a bit more difficult to push.
MikeJ, Stalker, and myself played Buell leapfrog, and kept moving the bikes up the hwy to get to the HWY28 exit. A good 1/2-3/4 of a mile. Doesn't seem like much, but try pushing a bike with a flat tire that far
called my ever resourceful brother Chris, and he came and put Brian's & Toni's bike on the trailer about 1:45AM. I followed them, DAMN it got cold!
Luckily all the excitement didn't end up with any of our crew in the hospital. The 1st thing that went thru my mind after backing off, was "Where the heck ARE WE!", so I could call emergency crews "just in case". Good thing I didn't need to make that call.
Kudos to MikeJ and Stalker for sticking around. Thanks!
(Message edited by Steve_mackay on June 05, 2006) |
Steve_mackay
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 01:05 pm: |
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Oh yeah, those old S2s have a really COOL feature. Push both blinkers on(they have one on each side of the bars), and they turn in to emergency flashers. I am going to wire a circuit in to both our bikes to do that. It kept the cars away from our side of the shoulder a bit. Thanks again MikeJ. |
Mikej
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 01:25 pm: |
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No problem, nice ride home, bit of excitement, bit of exercise, then on to home. The only problem with the S2 flashers was with the stock kickstand making them look like they were at a 45° angle. It was kind of strange though that not one person stopped except for that couple with the horse trailer once we were off the freeway. People probably figured with 6 people and 5 bikes we probably had it handled anyway.
All in all a good day. |
Steve_mackay
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 02:28 pm: |
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I'll get my server runing, and post the 200+ pics I've got from last weekend later tonight(too lazy to re-size and post a ton of pics today).
Here are a couple though.
Diablobrian, NoRice, PurplePeopleEater and my bike getting ready to head off to Hals Friday morning.
The turnout at Hals HD was good, as was the food!
Danny Bilanski's Thunderbike.
CarParts(aka M.S.O.E. Kid, aka Matt) father wining an iPod Nano.(lucky SOB!)
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Steve_mackay
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 02:39 pm: |
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Homecoming wouldn't be complete with out a picture of an XBRR in action.
Buellgirlie, Court and Court's wife.
There was a "sidehack" race after FX. This team didn't have very good luck it would seem?
Carparts and his Dad getting ready to leave. Gotta love the mowhawk!
NoRice doin' the posin' thing. And yes, he was riding behind me just as you see him in the picture going down hwy20 in Racine!
Really nice Uly.
The gang from Iowa getting ready to leave.
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Steve_mackay
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 02:45 pm: |
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Sunday, Uke's had an open house. Bubba Blackwell was there. The guy is just plan NUTZ!
But, he did finally find a good use for Dunlops.
NoRice showing my Son, Thomas how to stunt on his bike. Dunno if that was such a good idea now
NoRice and Diablobrian all set to leave. Sorry to see 'em leave. REALLY nice guys to ride with! Thanks again guys for a very memorable Homecoming. Hope to see you back next year!
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Outrider
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 03:18 pm: |
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Steve...Nice pics. Am anxious to see the rest.
I see both you and DaveS caught Court at a bad Kodak Moment. Sure would be nice to see a pic of him smiling again. 
Just kidding. I am sure someone did.  |
04buell
| | Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 07:30 pm: |
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What a weekend!!!! Thanks to ALL from 04 and mrs. 04buell. Spidey and Grimace should know that we made the 1100 mi. round trip back to EFF'NHAM ILLINOIS....... {pictures to follow!} |
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