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Jst
Posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 10:28 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Any one notice that the XB has push rod tubes? Something just doesn't look quite right on that picture.
JT
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Mbsween
Posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 10:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Jose

did you get the pics here?
homemade xb12?

Looks like someone was working late

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Nxtr
Posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 11:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

French translation through Bablefish, (Buell is on the point of revealing its new XB 12 R! It is true that the XB 9 had disappointed some fans mark by its driving behavior less spectacular than that of old X1. The manufacturer would thus have returned to a cubic capacity in the neighbourhoods of the 1200 Cm3, more advantageous in term of couple and power. With less than it quite simply took again the liquid block of V-Rod? Impossible to affirm anything for the hour, but more in the days to undoubtedly come...)

Rumors, rumors, hopefully we will have all the info by this time next week.

Nxtr
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Rocketman
Posted on Wednesday, July 09, 2003 - 11:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Anonymous 1 & 2 perhaps you'd like to state your facts to support such statements? If MCN claim to be testing an XB12S in next weeks edition, a world first test, why would you be more informed than them wrt their claimed XB12S\R specifications? Maybe you could give your reasons for posting anonymous. Perhaps an effort to not make yourselves look stupid by any chance?


Rocket

edited by rocketman on July 09, 2003
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Roc
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 12:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

JST - Yes, and that is a fine point.
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Hoser
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 12:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The motorcycle shown above , it's been displayed on badweb before , can't seem to find it right now , it is a privately owned custom XB.

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Americanrice
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 12:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

All of that for 6hp. What a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Bud
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 01:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The black xb , as shown Is the first dutch millennium/ nallin xb12 , made by www.bikehospital.nl
The dyno sheet is in the dyno vault
I actually now the guy
the bike is freaking fast, even in 4e gear and janking the throttle it only just keeps the front wheel on the ground.
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Charley
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 03:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

"The black xb , as shown Is the first dutch millennium/ nallin xb12 , made by www.bikehospital.nl "

Hé Bud , there was No Nallin Involved here!!!
its all Millennium/ Bike hospital
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Redstripe
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 03:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'll second that! The bike is friggin' fast, now all the rider has to do is get on par with it!!! LOL
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Court
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 05:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

>>>we will have all the info by this time next week.


You will.

The media, foreign and domestic, are operating under embargo agreements that allow them to take photos and begin writing in time to allow stories to run in roughly the same period as the introduction of the new models.

The press kit for 2003 (which is awesome) also provides a collection of "canned" images.

You, at this time next week, should know everything you need to know.

I'd take MCN with a grain of salt...

Court
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Bud
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:27 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sorry Charley,
I should have known better

Gr.b
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Dynarider
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 09:08 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Wasnt MCN the ones who broke the orginal news on the XB's?? I believe they were about a week ahead of everyone else.

It may all end up being bullshit, but it all seems plausible enough.
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Blake
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 01:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Rocket,
Anonymous knows of what he speaks. That's all I'll say. Please trust me on that.

You have email, sent to the address listed in your profile.
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Bud
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 05:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

the artikel, scaned by a very nice dutch-becoming british fellow


nice colors
waiting is 1/2 the fun
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Firemanjim
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That figures,now they have the red I wanted last year.
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Misato
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

huh.
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Jprovo
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

FMJ,

If it's anything like the Blast, replacement bodywork will be (relatively) cheap.

James
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Dark_ninja
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

For some reason I am underwhelmed. A 30% rise in displacment only gets you a 5% rise in HP and a %9 rise in Torque?

Am I missing something here?
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Darthane
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That is hideous.
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Misato
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

when is this "dealer meeting"? and who's going to post the results when its finished?
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Gonen60
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 06:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

The Red and Gold looks Horrible. 5HP gain=Joke
that is, if the story has it's facts straight.
could be a photo-shop trick !!!
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Aaron
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 07:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

And the people who know just grit their teeth and hold their tongues ;)

Guys, just wait a little bit and let the real facts come out before tossing rocks at it.
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Cyclone1
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 07:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Amen. :D

Frank
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Fssnoc2501
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 07:58 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Have any of you guys heard that story about happiness and a new rope.

Ray
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Tripper
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 09:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

No. Please tell.
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Rocketman
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 10:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I'm amazed that so many of you can doubt the integrity of MCN. What a bunch of wankers some of you are sometimes. I suppose when next weeks edition is published including the test they speak of, what say you then, another Photoshop trick? Is this an anti-British thing?

Rocket
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Anonymous
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 11:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Rocket,

MCN gets a double hit for lack of integrity. First because they published a story on a press launch of 2004 Buell models that they agreed to embargo until the dealer show (no other magazine in the world broke this agreement), and secondly because they got so much wrong. Pathetic.
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Spike
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 11:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Man, talk about timing. I found a buyer for my Cyclone this week and now I hear this semi-confirmation of a more powerful XB. The new owner of my Cyclone won't take delivery until next week, which means I'll be ready to buy right around the time we officially hear the details on the new Buell. I could pass on the gold wheels, but a Firebolt with a black frame and red body work would be very tempting.

I just hope there's a significant power gain.

Impatiently waiting,
Mike L.
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Nxtr
Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 11:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Thanks Anon. I will go out on a limb here, The Buell pictured above is the new XB9S and we have yet to see the new XB12. But then again I just finished way too many Crown Royals. Like I said earlier we will all know next week!!!
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