So a guy gets laid off from Harley, starts his own company, gets bought out by the company he was laid off from, then the company closes it. It's an odd story.
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So a guy gets laid off from Harley, starts his own company, gets bought out by the company he was laid off from, then the company closes it. It's an odd story.
Timmay! i never realized he was there that long. hes a real good guy..little out there with all the guns, but a good guy. hes helped me here and there with some machining when ive been in a bind
They acually were planing that for 2011 the 125 was supose to have a redesigned exhaust and underseat radiator to get rid of the PODs in the front. I'm not a huge buell fan as none of them really fit me but its sad to see them go. I have friends with buells and they love em. Acually all of them were on the news on fox 6 at hals!
yea i don't really pay attention. i dont' have spell check lol
Honda wasn't out there with RC51's either.
Liberal motor cycle riders I tell ya. You'd think people would support American brands in a time like this. :wooo :stare
Japanese brands = millions of research and what not.
Buell = true American motor cycle that owned the AMA without all that bs.
^^^how truely American can a motorcycle be when its motor was designed and assembled in Austria, by an Austrian company? Buell skirted the homoligation rules for no reason other than to built a "competative" bike it would have never sold due to cost.
Honda designed, built, and competed with a V4 motorcycle that had oval pistons and 8 valves per cylinder. And they sold it for the street with the same waranty as any other bike on the floor.
The flag waving by HD owners is utter BS. Walk into a HD dealer, pick up 20 items off the shelf; I'd bet at best 3 are made in the USA.
sorry to hear Todd...hopefully something will come your way..your very talented....we need to do lunch ...i'll make time for it..we'll take Ron with us and snapper
i gueass the shirts i made are collectables...
I was digging around on this and I believe the problem of Buell closing can be traced to Doyle's shenanigans. The HD company, the Museum, and Buell used to be on their own books. Since combined book keeping instituted by the state, meaning all three are combined as far as books are concerned, this caused the taxes paid by HD to actually increase. They couldn't get a tax break any more if one of these was in the red. Not saying what was in the red, but I'm assuming HD and the museum. If combined and they show an actual profit combined, they gotta pay more tax. I wish there was a way to try and keep Buell viable. Maybe employee buy out? Selling to another manufacturer?
on a side note,we sold the last of our buells since the announcement.
Honda ran their RC-51 1000cc V-twin in AMA Superbike, thats right, with the inline-4 liter bikes. They did quite well actually, thats what Nicky Hayden rode to an AMA superbike championship in 02. Moving to MotoGP the next year.
Also on the rev ranges of the two different bikes:
The 1125 looks to redline around 11k, not 8k like said before.
Most 600's will rev out to about 17k, not 19k like said above.
I'm sad to see them go, but you can't really say it was a GREAT, championship winning motorcycle.