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Wolfridgerider
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 02:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Well... today was swap meet day!!
I was looking forward to walking the packed isles of bike parts and HOPED to find a Buell diamond in the ruff.
Anything Buell... T-shirt... sticker... I didn't care. I just thought the chances of finding something Buell related at a swap meet would be about nil.... I wish it was...

I met up with a old riding buddy from way back and had breakfast. Shot the bull and headed to the swap meet.
We payed our 5 bucks and commenced the walk.
Old Harley junk was the main thing for sale. I did find a set of Joe Rocket gauntlet gloves for 10 bucks.. that put a smile on my face.
Kept walking and looking... No Buell stuff...

Then it was on to the next building... More boxes of rusty H-D stuff.. old oil cans... chrome.. and cheap leather...
Kept walking... and there it was... a tuber frame and seat.. I thought.. COOL!! I found something Buell related...
Then the guy started talking to me... "I've got a box of parts too... its from a chop we made" My heart sank like a rock... "I got some other stuff too"
... and then I almost became sick to my stomach.
He had 4 tale sections... 1 from a M2 and what really made me sick... 3 from S1's






I kept walking... but now I felt like someone had kicked me in the nads...
A S1!?!?! not only did they chop a S1... They chopped 3!! I was BUMMING
...Turned the corner... and got kicked again.


So now I was pissed and decided to head home... but it wasn't over...
For $50 bucks I could have gotten a new dog...."
"50 bucks... I'm gonna be here until they are gone"
Not a care in the world where they went or how they would be treated...


I just should have stayed home....
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Guell
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 02:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

damn i want that s1 tail with the force seat
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Augustus74
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 03:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Did you confirm that ALL the tail sections came from chopped bikes?
Thats really f**ked up with the dogs! Wonder if the ASPCA could have done anything?
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Wolfridgerider
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 03:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

it is pretty messed up about the dogs... but its better than dumping them along side the road..

The tail sections... I don't know why else they would have had them... and when I said that I hoped they all didn't come from bikes they chopped... "Why not?" was his answer...
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Hybridmomentspass
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 03:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

wish the swap meet here was five bucks, its 13 for one day pass, 20 for two day pass.

and there are less buell parts than that at the last one I went to two months ago
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Rick_a
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 05:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


quote:

The tail sections... I don't know why else they would have had them... and when I said that I hoped they all didn't come from bikes they chopped... "Why not?" was his answer...



From their point of view everything but the frame and bodywork is worth keeping.

X1's are the only tubers I've seen in numbers. Seeing any other tuber model on the road is a rarity, so it is a bummer to see 'em chopped and scrapped. The best one was a dude telling me about chopping a pre-Thunderstorm M2 and bragging about the engine being the only thing worthwhile. Sorry bud, the engine is mostly standard Harley and everything attached to it was pure magic. He was a bit less enthusiastic when I explained the differences between the early M2 Lightning head engines and the other Thunderstorm models with bolt-in cams.
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Moxnix
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 05:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Breaking up Buells has been a cottage industry for a long time. Pity, really, but we can't afford to save them all.
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Twobuells
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 06:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

what a shame


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No_rice
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 09:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

that does piss me off too... in all honesty, i already figured awhile ago that there will be a day we are chopping mutants to rebuild buells.
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Oddball
Posted on Sunday, January 16, 2011 - 11:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Cute pups.

Just saw another one heading for a chop on quadcambastards.
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Cataract2
Posted on Monday, January 17, 2011 - 01:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I would have bought one of the frames to have a starting point. Time to rebuild.
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46champ
Posted on Monday, January 17, 2011 - 01:39 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

We can't save them all but for around $3000 we can save one at a time. In 30 years these idiots will realize what they missed.
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Paint_shaker
Posted on Monday, January 17, 2011 - 08:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"We can't save them all but for around $3000 we can save one at a time. In 30 years these idiots will realize what they missed."


NO they won't! If we have to explain it, they wouldn't understand.
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Wolfridgerider
Posted on Monday, January 17, 2011 - 09:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"If I have to understand... don't bother to explain"
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