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Dbeach
Posted on Monday, March 29, 2004 - 09:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I saw discussion on a 250 rear tired Buell in one of the sections of this site but can't find it now. Does anyone know of a conversion kit to take a '96 S-1 to a 250 rear tire or have pictures of how someone did it themselves? I have a machine shop but have some questions if I am going to attempt this.
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Bomber
Posted on Monday, March 29, 2004 - 09:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Db . . .. don't do it!

I have it on good authority that a rear tire that large will turn your scoot into a schoolbus
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Dbeach
Posted on Monday, March 29, 2004 - 12:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Bomber,

I hear you. Not looking for performance, looking for the look if you know what I mean.

Does anyone have pictures or info on a 250 tire?
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Mikej
Posted on Monday, March 29, 2004 - 02:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

There have been some posted on the site here before. A lot of the folks on the site here are more concerned with cornering performance and functional road use viability than with looks, so you can expect to receive a few comments.

Are you building up a show or drag-race bike? Or a bar hopper? Or something else? Or none of my dang business? ; )

Rummage around in the older pic archives and the tire and bodywork section archives as well.
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Dbeach
Posted on Monday, March 29, 2004 - 11:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

No problem, Buells are all about cornering and performance so I understand the passing concerns.

Doing it because it appears to be a challenge and I will show it off. Made a set of highway pegs utilizing a front engine case bolt as the anchor and made some 3 D larger than life lightening bolts on the rear set irons. Both turned out excellent and got rave reviews. Looking for the next project and a 250 tire keeps sticking in my head. I would retain the stock swingarm, wheels etc. for future if the need came to reverse it all.
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Bomber
Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 09:41 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Db

A buddy ran a 2-someting a couple of summers ago for a short while . . .. . .barely fit the stock swingarm, obviously . . .. . I doubt if there's a kit for this, but, if memory serves, your swingarm is steel . . . .pick up another one on ebay and saw/weld/file away!

I'd love to see the final product
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Dyna
Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 04:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Avon tires had an S1 built with a 250 I believe.
Looked pretty cool.
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Bads1
Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 05:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yeah that little cast red and blue Buell you have Dyna is the replica of it.
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Leftcoastal
Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 10:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

The Avon bike you are referring to was featured in HOT ROD BIKES magazine about 4 yrs ago. It was built by Tommy Todd of GT Customs in Maryland NY. Bads1 is right, Dyna, that is a model of it. If I remember right it was an S1 with one of the early 250 series rear tires. Tommy said it handled like crap. AL
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Newfie_buell
Posted on Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 08:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Highway Pegs on an S1,

250 Rear Tire, next will be ape hangers, leather tassles from the grips, etc, etc, etc

I shudder to think of these things to such a sexy machine.

I know - NONE OF MY BUSINESS





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Mr_grumpy
Posted on Monday, April 26, 2004 - 03:48 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder Newfie, ask your missus. ahahahahaha
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Newfie_buell
Posted on Monday, April 26, 2004 - 04:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I'd say bring yours with ya and we ask HER!!!!
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DonW (Unregistered Guest)
Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 12:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

These kits are the badest thing you can do to yoru buell, they are sick!
http://www.redneckengineering.com/
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Bs33402
Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 08:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

the bike in question in hot rod bikes was actually a m2.
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Bs33402
Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 08:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

july 2001
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