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Barker
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 02:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

So, I was in San Diego for the past week on a shoot. I saw Buells all over that town.

IIRC, I saw.
2 1125Rs
2 XB12XTs (riding together)
4 XB12Ss (one of these was parked outside my hotel most of the time)
1 CityX
1 XB12X
1 M2
1 Blast
1 XB12R

And to top it all off:
One the last day of my shoot, I decided to wear one of my Buell shirts. One of the guys I had been working with all week says "Nice shirt", I say "Thanks, you know much about buells?" he says "Yeah I got a Tricked out 12S and a Firebolt"

Then I go to fill-up the rental car and the guy at the gas station say "It's an extra 10 cents a gallons for anyone who rides a Buell!" My face contorts a bit in amazement then he says. "I'm just messing with you, I used to have an X1, I wish i never sold it, what do you ride?"



I felt like I was in the twilight zone. These things are getting too popular. I'm going to have to HTFU and get a bimoto or sumthin wacky like that.
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Xl1200r
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 02:43 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've had a couple "strange encounters" as well. My female boss, a co-worker and by my dental hygenist call knew what a Buell was.
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Brinnutz
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 02:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I have only had someone say something once...And most of the things I wear around say Buell on it.
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Glitch
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 02:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I saw Buells all over that town.
Sounds like you were in North Georgia.
You going to Buelltoberfest?
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Barker
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 02:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Buelltoberfest:


fixed broke utube vid. sorry not as good as the old one.

(Message edited by barker on September 08, 2008)
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Hexangler
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 03:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Barker, check your link.
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Cityxslicker
Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 - 03:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Our inventory is stacked, come see your favorites all in one place, even better if you adopt one and make it your own.
See us over in the sponsor section for BadWeather Biker Special.

2009 XB9SX Cherry Bomb
2009 XB12XP Cop ULY in Black
2008 XB12XT Black
2008 1125R Black
2008 XB12R Black
2008 XB12Scg Black
2008 XB9SX Kick Ash
2007 XB12SS Sunset Red Used
2008 XB9SX Kick Ash Used
2007 XB12R Black Used




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Cityxslicker
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 02:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

No talent A$$ clown with big hair


Apparently in 1983 anybody with a keyboard and big hair could do a video.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 02:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Our Mullets have talent.

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Ducxl
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 06:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

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Rotzaruck
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 06:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I met one on the road a couple of months ago. I stopped. He stopped. I looked back to see if he looked back; he looked back to see if I looked back to see if he looked back to see if.....
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 07:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

On a typical Sunday afternoon ride around Auckland it would be unusual not to see at least 2 other Buells.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 07:12 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Bike show at Howick on Sunday:



I parked with the supertankers

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Rainman
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 07:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Damn Dave, I'm moving to your neck of the world. All we have here are H-Ds and Kawazukiyamandas, an X-1, a 06 Uly, and my Blast.
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Glitch
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 07:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Does it feel as large as it looks?
If it weren't for the headlights and running lights, it'd look like it came from the 1950s.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 07:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I've scratched up the undersides of the mufflers with curb hopping and general chucking it around type buffoonery.

All those behemoths are quite easy to ride.

It's stationary that they are a handful.

That 1950's comment gives me a great start to the article - thanks.

true story - after that show I took of for a blat on my own.

I was riding down the Freeway out of town when I caught up to an Old timer on an immaculate in-line 4 Indian.

I rode beside him for a mile while we checked each other's rides with a thumbs up.

I felt a certain affinity with him. Showy American job. 50 years on.

There's a great angle!

(Message edited by danger_dave on September 09, 2008)
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Glitch
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 07:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That 1950's comment gives me a great start to the article - thanks.

Inspiration comes from the most unlikely of people don't it.
I rode beside him for a mile while we checked each other's rides with a thumbs up.
Now that would have been a right nice picture!
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 08:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I don't know why I don't meet more writers online.

I get to interview owners and gauge opinions by forum-ising. Been doing it long enough to have a forum nerd index too.

In here you guys basically like what I like. ADV gives me the checked shirts' angle and I hang out in some Kiwi groups for the local scuttlebutt.

Then I use what's good in the word count.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 08:09 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Some nice pics in the thread over on adv

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38 0613
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Rainman
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 08:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

There's a few of writers skulking about this board...We're always ready to help when you need a lede...
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Barker
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 12:57 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Victory = a two wheeled version of an old caddy mixed with the starship enterprise
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Edgydrifter
Posted on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 - 04:52 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

More like a K1200GT riding through a tarp!
I mean that in a good way, of course.
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