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Bayview
Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 10:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

So I'm walking up my front steps when my neighbor (female) says to me, "Hey I saw your cute little Buell parked outside the other day."

Now, she rides a Kawasaki 750cc standard and her husband has an old CB750 as well as a late 80s BMW tourer - so they know bikes. This is one of many little jabs they've made about H-D and Buell. But to call my black as night, fire-breathing M2 with V&H pipe and Forcewinder snorkel cute? I was furious. I had a million things running through my head, but I bit my lip to remain neighborly. Anyway, I just had to vent.

First post, by the way...
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Aaomy
Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 10:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

congrats on posting and welcome,, dont worry. if you only knew how many people have called my 62 XLCH a cute bike..guys always say look hunn,, its small enough for you, or women go look i could ride that.. just smile and laugh loudly,, and if they say anything say " i would try to explain it but you simply wouldnt understand"
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Doughnut
Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 10:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I have had a girl say the same thing about my S2.
And welcome!
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M2me
Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 10:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Welcome to BadWeb, Bayview! No need to vent. I welcome pretty much all comments from the ladies about my bike and I've had my share! Just yesterday I was at a gas station and a woman says to me, "Nice bike!" Thanks, I say. And then she says, "My boyfriend has a Buell but yours is a better color." I just smile and nod but think to myself, "She just had to mention the boyfriend didn't she?"

Anyway, I just had to vent!
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Dave
Posted on Thursday, August 18, 2005 - 11:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Relax Bayview...she actually wants you & the Buell. She's using "cute little Buell" as an opportunity to complement you, make small talk, and yet attempt to justify it.

DAve
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Jlnance
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 12:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"My boyfriend has a Buell but yours is a better color."

LOL - He probably hangs out here.
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Cerbero
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 01:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

your M2 sounds exactly like my M2... and while "cute" does not come to mind when i think of my bike, i suppose it's better than some of the things i've heard them called!
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U4euh
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 02:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I agree w/ Dave. Ask her to follow you to some twisty's and show how 'cute' it can really be.
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Hans
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 04:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

And what about my, then new, M2:
"What a beautifully restored motorcycle: Looks like it comes right from the factory."
Hans
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Spinzealot
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 06:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I look at my M2 and see anything but cute
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Mfell2112
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 07:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

HAHA! A friend of my Dads who rides a Harley said to me"I hear you ride a Buell Blast" and then he laughed. I got very angry for a split second and calmly stated I ride a Cyclone even though he had no idea what a Cyclone was. He just started riding so he had no clue.

Regards

Mike
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Djkaplan
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 08:01 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I think they are kind of cute.
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Bent_mind
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 09:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Tell her it's "frisky" too.
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Newfie_buell
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 09:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

There is no picture of the Cyclone in your profile so I really can't tell if its cute.

Take it as a complement and move on!!!!

By the way was she cute?......Maybe she was trying to tell you something.

The best name I had on the Lightning yet was a gal on a CBR600 named my bike the "Saucy Biatch" and told me that she (the Lightning) was one hell of a nasty bike.

She also asked "Does it Bite?" which my reply was "Only if you want it to!!!!"

I wonder if she was trying to tell me something!!!!!

That name has stuck on the bike ever since.
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Spinzealot
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 10:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It's good to see the ol Ma-Duce still lives!
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Jeremyh
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 10:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

well, you could be suffering from cute little bike syndrom. your not 6,8" and 280lbs are you? Its sort of like small mans syndrome.....you know where a 4 foot tall guy thinks he has to have an 20 foot tall truck with all the bells and whistles on it.

Relax......
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Cruisin
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 12:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I guess it would depend on what she looked like. I wouldn't care what a hot chick called my bike...as long as she was talking to me.
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Koz5150
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 02:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Good Bueller response - "Thanks, I like it too"

Bad Bueller response - "yeah, it's almost as cute as your butt"
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Bayview
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 02:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Yes, I'm probably being overly defensive of my ride. Odd that I'd let something like that get to me. I guess it just goes to show how much we Buellers love our leaky old paint-mixers...
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Buell_less
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 05:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Park your Buell next to that Kawasaki or Honda or BMW. It's little, as in physically small next to any of them. To her, little = cute.

Don't sweat it; at least she's willing to talk to you.
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Midmofirebolt
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 08:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sick Bueller response-"yeah, and it rides a little 'hard,' but that's just cause the suspension is 'stiff'. You really should see it go 'in and out' of the corners though. Wanna come in for a drink?"
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Captainkirk
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 10:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sorry; I can't look at my M2 and see "cute" even if I squint. Especially if it's running. Some people thought the little Velociraptors in "Jurrasic Park" were cute, too.
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Doughnut
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 10:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Some people thought the little Velociraptors in "Jurrasic Park" were cute, too.

They were.
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Captainkirk
Posted on Friday, August 19, 2005 - 11:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm talking about the ones that chased the kids through the kitchen....
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Sgtbuell
Posted on Sunday, August 21, 2005 - 01:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Until you have gotten the "Hey you look like a monkey F'N a football" don't worry about it".
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Chadleys1
Posted on Sunday, August 21, 2005 - 08:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sgtbuell,
I have gotten that one, and a couple of years ago, I got one even worse. I had recently had my S1 fully repainted from top to bottom and emailed some pictures, of me riding it, to about 10 friends. One of my buddies sent a reply with no comment on the bike, so I emailed him back to ask; "what did you think about the bike pictures?" His reply was sent to all 10 people I had originally emailed and asked the question; "you know at the Circus?... that bear that rides around on the little bicycle?"
Here is the photo that my friends thought was so funny.
does this bike make my butt look big?
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Light_keeper
Posted on Monday, August 22, 2005 - 10:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Nothing wrong with a Blast if thats what you ride.
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