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Ghost69
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 12:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Found this on EBay (item# 4606235824) I have mixed feelings about this. Not sure if I like it or not.

Wade


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Buellgrrrl
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 12:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Note the less than abundant cornering clearance- probably capable of a whole 10 degrees lean! Amazing the lengths people will go to to ruin a perfectly good Buell.
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Brotherbuell
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 12:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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Ghost69
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 12:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It looks like a really fat human sat on a perfectly good X1 and this is the result.

Wade
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Halbard
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 01:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Well, if you never plan on actually riding it, I suppose it would make an interesting.... um.... paperweight? Another useless bike on the road.
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Glitch
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 01:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Look at the "seat."
Now look at where the pegs are.

Looks like a lot of work went into that...that...thing.
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Wardan123
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 01:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It's a shame. I have lusted after that blue body work and it is on... that... that... thing.
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Ceejay
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 03:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

kinda looks like a drag bike in the works...
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Paulson
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 03:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Drag bike I can see. Not much good for anything else.
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No_rice
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 05:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

um... ya...

now if the exhaust was relocated to a different spot and the pegs were back by the rear wheel i could see drag bike for sure. just not sure how a person is going to be able to sit like that the way it is.
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Oldog
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 05:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

is it me or does it look like that there is a soft tail swing arm welded into the tubing at the back?

based on locations for various things it looks like it has been set up for a chimp
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Buellbozo
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 05:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Just glad it's not mine
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Brentx1
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 05:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I think it shows alot of imagination. The reach to the handle bars looks a little extreme.
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99buellx1
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 06:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)


quote:

is it me or does it look like that there is a soft tail swing arm welded into the tubing at the back?





It's an aftermarket softail chopper frame with Buell parts grafted to it, so, yes it does have a softail like swingarm.
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Bake
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 07:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sheesh, musta lost all the good parts
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Seth
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 03:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"...based on locations for various things it looks like it has been set up for a chimp..."

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Kdan
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 06:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

There will soon be a new one! Check out this mess...http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2005-BUELL-XB12S-PROJECT-BIKE-CLEAN-TITLE-NO-RESE RVE_W0QQitemZ4605419897QQcategoryZ49985QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Newfie_buell
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 07:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Is it my eyes or do the front forks look bent back towards the engine right where the lower tubes go into the upper tubes.
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Buellfighter
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 08:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Strange chopper
sweet dragbike
those turn signals aren't helping the cause any.
Newfie_buell, they look straight to me.
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Slaughter
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 09:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

If the motor is still usable and I could buy it for about $1000, I'd hit it to use for spares and sell the rest of the bits back on ebay.
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Djkaplan
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 10:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Wouldn't make a very good drag bike - the frame would hit the ground if you the brakes or got any air on the launch.

...just another glory roader...
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Tbolt_pilot
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 09:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Judging the angles of the backbone compared to the upper swingarm tube, it has air suspension that isn't pumped up.
But I think ya'll are right, it looks uncomfortable and almost unrideable.
I think somebody needs a tape measure....
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