| Author | Message | ||
     Mcelhaney14 |
http://www.cycletrader.com/listing/1991-Buell-RS-1 200-111009794 not mine but thought I would share. | ||
| Greg_cifu |
How did you find THAT? A pretty good deal if the mileage is real. I think that's about dollar-for-dollar what it cost, without taxes or license and doesn't even consider inflation. | ||
| Mcelhaney14 |
Greg, I figured you would be on your way to florida by now. | ||
| Greg_cifu |
How could I have been so stupid? It could be a donor bike for the RR! It's got the right front engine mount and the right exhaust! Sweet! I'll sell the stock Sportster engine to some chopper moron who thinks it makes 110 HP just because it came out of a Buell frame.  OK, seriously, if the humidity didn't damage anything, that's a contender with the bikes in the Barber museum. Mine is clean but, it ain't new. | ||
| Lynrd |
Amazing find - weird that it has never been ridden but has a recall shock on it. | ||
| Leftcoastal |
Yea, Lynrd, that is weird, my 91 RS had the orig. shock with the white spring, and it never got a recall that I know of. Still on there when I sold the bike a while back. Someone ought to buy that thing and RIDE IT! The RS bikes handle like a dream. | ||
| Greg_cifu |
That's not a recall shock. That's the original RS1200 Works Performance shock that the magazines hated. Later bikes had this shock--I believe it's a White Power:  Confusingly, this is ALSO a Works Performance shock (on the left); this one from the RR1200 and it has the exposed spring like the WP.  | ||
| Lynrd |
Why did the magazines hate it? Appearance or was it under sprung or something? | ||
| Greg_cifu |
From what I remember (because I'm too lazy to go find the magazine), the shock was both undersprung and had weird damping. My guess is Works Performance really hadn't worked on enough reverse-action shocks to determine good starting values for compression and rebound rates. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
HORY SHET! That is the model and year I saw first. The image is jammed in my brain. At the time, I had no actual idea what it was. It was in a dealership all jacked up on a ramp. |
