Comments on: Buell closed for good

By: miguel

miguel — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:34:42 +0000

You’re right. It’s a bit difficult to make sport bikes under the umbrella of HD. Anyway, Buell is working on other projects (EBR 1190RR), most related to the competition, which I think is what he always wanted to do.

By: BMW UBER ALLES (ZA)

BMW UBER ALLES (ZA) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:14:02 +0000

Like all unadaptable design’s Mother nature has selected Buell for extinction, if it was such a great bike it would have survive.
I have ridden a Buell once and hated it, under powered, crap brakes.

I guess it’s a case of horses for courses I grew up around BMW’s and I can understand the love a true Buell owner will have for it.

Sorry for the workers and Erick Buell, It must suck to have your dream your pride and joy sunk thru no vault of your own, the crux of the story is you can not build sport bikes when you have HD for a boss, HD! were the only progress made over the lass 50 years was the new paint colours and a louder pipe! O yes there was the V-Rod lol they look great in my rear view mirror.

So Erik next time dont sell your dreams so cheap.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:20:55 +0000

Great. Now i have to return to Kawasaki for another knee dragger when the Buell 1125R get’s to old and out of date. I own two Buell’s both of them the 1125R with the rotax engine, One is set up for all out racing and they are the best mutha F&&ing street bikes on the road. Period. There handling is best in class. I was banned from my local track, that i have raced on for over 20 years, after i handed all the Jap and Euro boys there balls on the 1125R. I never got the Harley supplied V-twins to make it with out crocking half thru the race. I laped everyone when i took the 1125R out on it’s first race. The rotax was smoth and reliable the whole 200 laps.

Apprently the board of director’s at Harley is sitting the whole company up for a close down, they just lost the only youth market share they had by cutting Buell out. Hate to say it but H-D is loosing it’s share of the motorcycle indusrty 3 percent every year. And that is from not having new bikes that atteact young people, and Buell done that, it did it with me in 1996. I would have never sit my ass on any HD model if it had not been for Buell. I owned a Dyna for a few years liked the bike. Hated the fact it was a desighn older than me. Looks like HD is tailgateing GM down a one way road. In a few years all HD bikes will be collector items. As will all the american car companies. Hates off to corporate America, Thanks a billion.

By: Pan Chopper Man

Pan Chopper Man — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:27:39 +0000

I never liked Buell motorcycles. You can’t chop ‘em.

Pan Chopper Man
Maine, USA

By: TechNomad

TechNomad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:06:45 +0000

I think closing Buell is a poor decision. Harley Davidson demographics point to future decline without something to supplement their “core business” of selling a “lifestyle”. They need something to attract new blood. Buell could have provided that focus if HD marketing and dealers had been up to the task. Unfortunately, they’ve been sadly lacking for the most part.

After HD announce that they were shutting down Buell, I bought a Lightning Long from High Country HD in Frederick, Colorado. It’s the best handling bike that I’ve ridden. HCHD gets it, but most HD dealers have failed to do Buell justice. I hope that Buell emerges from the ashes, but I bought one just in case that doesn’t happen.