It sits real low, about like my Savage.  There ain't a lick of chrome anywhere on it, save the handlebars.  It has a cool old "5" in the Harley logo on the tank, I guess that means 5 gears.  There's a puddle under it that gets wiped up every few days.  The left side cover leaks at the round plug near the back.  The shop says it will run and drive, but it's indoors and I have not gotten serious enough about it to ask for a demo.  Reckon it's worth 2 grand?  I'll get a pic and post.

Sorry guys didn't mean to tick anybody off. Its been a long winter in Maine with to much time at this computer and not enough riding time. Sometimes when a see a constant one sided bashing going on I step in to put in my 2 cents. Peace out.......

                         Jeff

Peace please. I've been absent from the forum for a few weeks or I would have jumped in sooner.

To be clear... everyone is entitled to their own opinion in this forum, including quikbike. What is not appropriate from quikbike or anyone else (you know who you are) are personal attacks.

Quikbike, I think if you get to know us you'll learn that we are accepting of riders of all sorts of bikes. What we care about is that they are REAL riders, not posers.

Let's move on.  

And not to be nasty to HD company, but just like a fact.
Some girl that I know was looking for a good beginers bike and one of the bikes she was looking at was Buell.
Because of the notes here and because of the lack of anything better to do / my neighbours aren't too happy when I am tuning carb's 11.30 pm/  I decided to check on the web what the buell owners have to say about their precious possession. You guys be judges for Yourself.
Check www.mybuell.com or just check buell owners forum. It is a fun reading.

Bike bashing has gone on ever since I started riding.  Generally this is just a fun teasing kind of thing, though.  When I rode Yamahas, I was on a Yamahaha.  Now I am riding a Srcewuski.  This is just good natured "competitiveness" that comes with men, machines, and their egos.

There is a difference when it involves HD, though.  Really hard to deal with too because then comes the issues of "American" made machines, and it almost borders on the idea of calling everyone else "Un-American".  And for those of us on German or Jap bikes, it's like we're traitors on the other side.  That's the way a lot of HD riders think or even speak, and that's why the issue is so passionate for the average Non-HD riding American.  

It even hardly matters that most of a HD is out-sourced and that it is loaded with lots of German and Japanese parts.  Take the German designed V-Rod for example, too.  It doesn't even matter that some foreign bike manufacturers have factories in the US, which provides American jobs.  Or how about the Americans working at dealerships, shops, and other places dealing with foreign bikes.  It is just a common fact that the normal HD rider considers anything else to be less....to be looked down upon.

I've ridden Harleys, Triumphs, Vespas, Hondas, Suzukis, and Yamahas.  They are all bikes, and I like them all.  It's is just some people that I don't like.

There, I've said my peace.

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