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Gentleman_jon
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 07:55 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I found this over at the Airtech site:
http://www.motorcyclebodywork.com/miscpages/cool.html
This is Kents version of what Eric Buell should have built. Yes it is kind of a Harley only LOTS better! It has a twin span all aluminum tube chassis with oil contained inside the frame. The fully adjustable rear suspension has a WP dampner as well as White Paper forks. The motion was supplied by the race dept. at S & S and measures 100 inches with over 118 HP turning an Andrews close ratio tranny. The wheels and stoppers are PM's best and is all topped off with Kent's beautifully sculpted carbon fiber bodywork. Look for it in the magazines soon. zzzaa
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Spiderman
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 08:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Soon?
That was on Airtechs book cover over 4 years ago...
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Glitch
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 09:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Airtech...what a joke.
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Chainsaw
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 09:22 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

This is Kents version of what Eric Buell should have built

it seems a lot of folks have an idea of what EB should build. Wonder if he ever takes offense?
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Bcordb3
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 09:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

it seems a lot of folks have an idea of what EB should

I have often wondered what he thinks when he reads that sort of thing. I am sure he just puts that info in his memory bank and takes it for what it's worth.

His new bikes seem to have incorporated a lot of ideas that came from what folks have been saying on this site the past couple of years.
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Cataract2
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 09:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Every time someone builds something you get a ton of people coming out to say what they "should" have built. Well, if those people feel that this is what they "should" have built I say rather than talking they SHOULD start doing.

BTW, that bike looks like just another carbon copy of the standard sportbike. Exhaust is even on the side. WTF?

(Message edited by Cataract2 on December 23, 2005)
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Daves
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 10:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Must be "air drive" too
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Olinxb12r
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 10:13 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I noticed that too Dave. That must be a pretty complicated system. That bike could be pretty cool, but I'm not really a fan of those fairings. Those ram air spots and the mold of what looks like an air cleaner kind of ruin it for me. More power to the builder though. I would love to see something different on the street. I do like the streetfighter GSX-R on the airtech site a lot more than the rest of the stuff they have there.

(Message edited by Olinxb12r on December 23, 2005)
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Isham
Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 10:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I dont like it. It looks like a mid 90s bike. I'll take any jap bike over that.
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Buellin_ri
Posted on Saturday, December 24, 2005 - 12:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I does look out dated to me as well.
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Blake
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 01:11 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 NEVER bought a Buell if they looked like that.
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Midknyte
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 01:39 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 NEVER bought a Buell if they looked like that.

I gotta second that...
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Captpete
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 04:56 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 NEVER bought a Buell if they looked like that.

No joke! You’d spend all your time looking for that yellow helmet.
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Martya
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 06:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

sorry it sucks!.
yellow has nothing to do with it, ducati's look cool in yellow, it just suckkkkkkkkkkks!.
mr buell your job's safe!.
oh!, and before anyone takes offence at my comment well, merry christmas to you too!.
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Rocketman
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 09:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That's a really nice looking sportsbike and if you think any different you're bigoted or blinkered, or both. The spec is very high and it's styled pretty exotically too.

Just because it isn't a Buell? Please! Someone tell
me what's wrong with it?

Rocket
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Buellin_ri
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 09:44 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I don't like the view from the back. The front is stylish, but the tail looks dated.
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Chainsaw
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 10:10 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Just because it isn't a Buell? Please! Someone tell
me what's wrong with it?


Not everyone likes full fairing bikes. It's an opinion, not bigotry.
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Brucelee
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 10:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Kind of looks like a Hayabusa with that fat fairing look. I hate it!
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Buellshyter
Posted on Monday, December 26, 2005 - 12:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Some ding-dong who thinks he's a sculptor trying to tell an engineer how to build a bike. Hey pal, you're neither!!
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Blake
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 12:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"That's a really nice looking sportsbike and if you think any different you're bigoted or blinkered, or both."

Then I am a bigot and blinkered. : |
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Rocketman
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 08:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Well it's a shame Buell didn't use the same philosophy. How many times have we heard a cry on the BadWeB for a exotic Buell?

If it said Buell on the side, you'd be all over it like a rash.

That's a great effort at making a powerful V twin, with transmission, suspension etc to match, and a fully enclosed GP style fairing. Obviously it's capable of 129mph, just standing still, and more, which is way too fast for the safety lobbyist's amongst you. No wonder such bigotry exists on the BadWeB.

Rocket
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Glitch
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 08:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Dang Rocket, sounds like you'er trolling.
if you think any different you're bigoted or blinkered, or both.
I'm bigoted or blinkered, or both, if I don't think like you do?
I bought a naked bike, all the bikes I've bought are naked bikes, I waited for Buell to come out with the XB9S, because the XB9R wasn't for me, the airtech is ugly to me, and for this I'm bigoted or blinkered, or both?
For you to say such a thing makes you what? Judgemental?

Never mind, I just looked at your weather, sorry m8, maybe things'll be nicer soon...
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Brucelee
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 09:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"Obviously it's capable of 129mph, just standing still, and more, which is way too fast for the safety lobbyist's amongst you. No wonder such bigotry exists on the BadWeB"

Someone has a burr up his saddle.

I don't think the bike will go anywhere without a drive chain but hey, I am no mechanic.

I think the color is ugly (mustard was never my favorite) and it looks fat, kind of like the fairing on a 'busa.

That must make me bigoted?
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Brucelee
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 09:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Bigot

One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ

Now WHO is the bigot among us?
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Josh_
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 10:30 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I own a fully-faired (and then some) inline-4 bike from Japan and a couple Buells. I think the bike looks old (but not enough to be cool like the new wicked cool Ducs) and ugly (but not ugly enough to be cool like a Ural).

'course I also think the Katana's are ugly (I bring up the Katana as the intake for the turbo reminds me of the Katana's air-intake) as are the 999 Ducs so what do I know.

what's with the goofy-looking bulge at the top of the windscreen? and the "reverse mud guard" curve in front of the rear tire?

With the fully-faired front and super-minimal tail it looks unbalanced. And lets face it - the paint sucks. Throw some graphics in to break up the otherwise boring sideview (and I'd do the turbo bulge in black to hide it).
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Nuerburgringer
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 12:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I gotta get me a pair of those "White Paper" forks too! They must be really lightweight...
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Vaneo1
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 12:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

LOOKS TOO MUCH LIKE A NINJA 250.
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Xlcr
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 02:12 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My question is, which engine? Is it Sporty based? Most S&S engines are based on the Big Twin. Sorry, but for sporting purposes, the Big Twin is all but useless. You think Buell redlines are low? The stock Big Twin redlines at 5400 RPM. Plus the motor is WAY larger and heavier than the Sporty motor. If that's what it's using, it's an overweight pig. I've never understood why rodding up the Big Twin is so popular, when the Sporty motor is so much more suitable, guess it's a chopper thing. I suppose they do make rodded Sporty engines too, I don't know. Nor can I tell by looking with all of that ugly plastic on there.
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Buellin_ri
Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 06:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Josh don't think thats a turbo under that buldge in the fairing. It looks like the S&S tear drop air cleaner you see a lot on the big twins.
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