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Sportyeric
Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 07:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Since the 96 S2T doesn't have the green carbon-fibre hugger, what did it come with for an air-filter cover? And is the California model different?
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Ratbuell
Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 07:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Same filter housing as a '95, just not green.
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Sportyeric
Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 08:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

So black CF? Must be rarer than the green ones.
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Phelan
Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 10:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

It was a green carbon fiber cover painted textured black, as was the rear hugger. The finish was terrible on the carbon so they painted them.
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Court
Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 11:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Coating was a Vy-Lon.

I have some of them here . . . totally dig the green. It's nostalgia, not aesthetics.
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Simond
Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 03:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My '96 S2T has a green air filter cover - it's a late build date too.
The carbon was wearing a little thin at the bottom and I was getting a few drips of oil through it from the K&N. I repaired it rather than use the new black one that came with the NRHS back plate I have on the shelf.
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Jefc73
Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 05:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I like the green as well. Looks really good when polished up nice. I have both the green ham can cover and rear tire fender on my S2.
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K12pilot
Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 08:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My "T" also has green AC with black hugger

All other S2's have greenies all around.

I don't remember ever seeing a sprayed black AC cover on S2 or S1's
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Ratbuell
Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 09:11 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 recall ever seeing a vylon air cleaner either...but I will admit, my original post was wrong. Pondering it further, I've only ever seen green CF air cleaners on S2s. I've seen vylon huggers, and green huggers...but never vylon air cleaners.

(Message edited by ratbuell on January 08, 2015)
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Rex
Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 12:16 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I have both. One S2 is green all the way. The other one is Black...
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Sportyeric
Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 01:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Right. My 95 has green and green. My new S2T has black hugger and what seems to be a Sportster hamcam, although not the normal chrome one. So I need a greenie.
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1313
Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 09:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

As it so happens, about a week and a half ago, I stumbled upon 1996 S2T VIN #1 (along with 2008 1125R VIN #1, a pair of 2010 Buells - 1125CR and XB12X - a pair of RR1200's, an RR1000, and a smattering of other interesting Buells) and 1996 S2T VIN #1 has a CF (so called greenie) air cleaner cover, and a black painted rear inner fender.

Just the way I remember them being built,
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Johnod
Posted on Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 10:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Is S2T #1 on the road?
Anyone here own it?
Just curious.
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Rex
Posted on Friday, January 09, 2015 - 06:10 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

wow
what color was it? personal collection?
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Court
Posted on Friday, January 09, 2015 - 10:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Brankin:

I concur.

The exposed weave rear inner fender was on the 1995. The CF gave way (and you have me wanting to pull some production files to confirm) to fiberglass for 1996.

It was 1996 that we did the very nice CF rear inner fender for the S1 which in 1997 was still CF but painted with black Vy-Lon.

*** I think ***

Again ., . .curiosity may send me digging for files.
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1313
Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 01:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

For S2T VIN #1...
A little hint:

UBW 01

The museum at Uke's in Kenosha, WI. It had been a few years since I had been there. I was DELIGHTED to see more Buell's there than previous visits.

UBW 02

That 1125R behind the S2T is VIN #1 (2008):

UBW 03


UBW 04

The proclamation is made:

UBW 05

Digging for the truth:

UBW 06

Confirmation!

UBW 07

Some of the other sights:

UBW 08


UBW 09


Rear fenders (to the best of my recollection):
'95 S2 - exposed CF
'96 S2 - I believe it was fiberglass (Hell, the tool didn't care what went into it - CF or fiberglass, especially with the epoxy resin used in 1996 fiberglass)
'96 S1 - exposed CF
'97 S1 - CF, but painted
'98 S1 - exposed CF

Anytime anyone is in the Kenosha area, Uke's museum is the 2nd floor of the H-D dealer. Admission is FREE! As long as they don't have it roped off you are free to go up and drool. If it is roped off, usually all you need to do is politely ask and odds are they'll let you go up and drool.

What I haven't figured out is why Uke's doesn't sell EBR - unless Hal's demanded/requested to be the exclusive SE Wisconsin EBR dealer (as they advertise),
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Phelan
Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 09:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Interesting- that looks like an RS slant rather than a n S2 slant.
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Screamer
Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 06:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Going through some old literature (knowing that actual production models could easily vary from the brochure bikes)...
1995 Brochure
"Buell American Motorcycles"
S2 - Exposed CF rear fender, exposed CF AC cover

1996 Brochure
"Pray for Pavement"
S2/S2T - Flat black rear fender, exposed CF AC cover
S1 - Flat black rear fender,

1997 Brochure
"Motor-Cycle Mecca'
S3/M2 - flat black rear fender
S1 - Exposed CF rear fender

1998 Brochure
"Real World Riding"
S3/M2 - flat black rear fender
S1/S1W - exposed CF rear fender
Sales Brochures may not always show what was actualIy shipped, but I remember the S2 Configuration the same as the brochures indicate.
I did not remember the 1996 S1 fenders being black, but the parts catalog show a part number change in 1997 that carried through 1998 - which matches the model year changes shown in the brochure photos.

The 1996 brochure also shows the S1 sidestand mounted to the primary cover. Although I think the ones we rode at the dealer new model show had the stand on the primary, I don't think any were shipped that way.
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Court
Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 08:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

>>>I don't think any were shipped that way.

Correct. Some of the early photo/media bikes on the build sheets were done that way including the one on the cover of Cycle World.

>>>(knowing that actual production models could easily vary from the brochure bikes)...

A VERY accurate statement and the source of some funny stories.

I'm sitting in my office one day and the phone rinds . . . a customer tells me "Hey, my M2 was delivered without the remote rebound reservoir"

I go into a knowing soliloquy about the M2 not having a reservoir and he stops me and tells me "but wait? . . . I'm looking at it right here on the brochure"

OOOOOPS

Sure enough . . the shocks hadn't arrived yet and when the M2 photo bikes were sent to Juneau they got S1 shocks slapped on them.
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Screamer
Posted on Saturday, January 10, 2015 - 09:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Answered several inquiries about the brochure S1 sidestand, mostly - "I want one for my S2"...
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