Man that sucks. I test rode a XB12Ss, and it was a lot of fun. The bike handled really well, and even though it was the harley engine, it pulled hard and made a unique sound. I would have loved to try one of those buell bikes with the Rotax engine that would actually scream up to 10k RPM.

 

Not kewl

 

What the F is DMG gonna do now??

 

I wonder if this means that the 700cc Tariff will return!? Are the Ronnie Regan years of motorcycling back...http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa032.html

 

Not like we're missing much.
Hopefully AMA will at least be worth watching again.

 

at least the debate is over, letting the 1125r vtwin race with the 600 I4's. dumb a$$es.

if Erik didn't win the series he would have been laughed off the track ( with
such a large advantage... )

tim

 

wow. that blows big time. their latest CR edition of their sportsbike was really sounding very good as well. he sounds suicidal. tough break.

 

Crap! Makes me want to go out and buy one. It'll be a long time (if ever?) before a sportbike comes off our soil.

At least Harley is trying to trim costs to stay upright without making the taxpayers fund it. It's a tough market for them, a $20K motorcycle is the first thing to get crossed off someone's list when they have no job or a rising mortgage payment.

 

H-D - over-priced & over-produced.

Hopefully someone will pick up the company & keep it going.

 

+1

 

this is so typical. HD thows away the only bikes that had any real value, and keeps the crap. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since it seems the majority of HD riders are well suited for their "bikes" (if thats what you want to call them) and few HD riders appreciated buells on the whole. no knock on HD riders here. if you are here, then you aren't who I'm talking about. but nobody can deny, that harley riders have more posers in their ranks than the customers of any other bike company. just a shame that harley opted to support them rather than the customers that actually like to RIDE. I guess the money is in replacing parts. not making bikes that are high enough quality to actually run for a while(ie. Buells). no money there. good representation of an american bike company and the retards that run it. I'd rather have a korean pos than american now. hope they die of syphilis.

 

And yet HD is still bailing water with MV Agusta. I wonder if the money they invested in MV could have kept Buell afloat long enough to ride out this depression, oops, recession.

And the fat cats on Wall & Main Street are laddeling out $153billion in bonuses at 23 companies using our bailout money!

 

The press release states that H-D is also putting MV up for sale

 

Well, those "posers" as you call them are what keep H-D in business. It would be stupid of them to keep Buell and cut a more profitable part of the lineup.

It's an uphill battle for them anyways, because of people (and perhaps you) trashing on their products based on a few 2nd hand stories rather than actual experience.

GM has been fighting that stigma for the past 10 years. Even if they built the best damn car in the history of mankind, lots of people would still assume it was crap and not buy it, and then tell everyone else the same.

 

No PR posted above, got a link?

 

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/15oct...scontinues.htm

 

I don't think its the "trashing" causing sales losses at HD... its over saturation and the fact they aren't attracting the next gen. Even HD know this, that was the reason for Buell in the first place. And forget 2nd hand stories I have ridden a Harley and my opinion is it sucked. Now if it is what you want to ride I don't care, its just not the bike for me. I hope HD contiues to build bikes, they are a staple of American culture even if we don't like their bikes.

 

I'm bummed about this. Buell showed that design doesn't have to be conventional. Though I wouldn't have bought one with the Evolution motor, the Rotax was pretty attractive. Too bad it got off on the wrong foot. I hope that the 1125 and Uly can survive somehow.

 

GM could build the worlds best cars - and yes we (or at least I) would still bash them. How many years does it take to remove the stink of 3 decades of ****? Quite a few - and I'm not ready to forget.
I think "buy American" was partially to blame. Americans would buy American cars on principle and that fostered te sence of entitlement that GM Chrysler and Ford had. They thought the US consumer would always accept their crap. Turns out they were wrong. It is disgusting that our money was used to bail them out.
I feel bad for Buell. It is the only American bike I ever thought might interest me. Maybe Eric or others in that organization will have a chance to rebuild a smaller leaner company. It was a niche product and I guess ultimately sales volume could not support organization

 

I've owned two Buells and thought they were great bikes. Sad to see them go. Kinda wish I still had that pearl white S2 with WP wheels.