Buell 1125R Got mine today!

[BALZYBUELL]

Hay all you fellow kiwibikers, Just wanna pop in and tell you all that i FINALLY got my Buell1125R this morning, Haven't really had a chance to go for a good blat so if you wanna check back after my ride this saturday my beautiful and ever loving misses will have typed up alittle something for you all, Anyone in the wellington area keep ya lookers peeled for me, Any questions please feel free to ask and we will gladly answer them, Cheers and good riding to you all, Jason and shell

[Blackbuell]

About time ya come out of hiding,its good to see more Buell followers on this site,but dont tell too many more peeps how good these Buells really are cause everyone will want one,hahahahahahahah

[Fatjim]

Hey, balckb. this isn't the jokes and humour forum.

[Her_C4]

Hay all you fellow kiwibikers, Just wanna pop in and tell you all that i FINALLY got my Buell1125R this morning, Haven't really had a chance to go for a good blat so if you wanna check back after my ride this saturday my beautiful and ever loving misses will have typed up alittle something for you all, Anyone in the wellington area keep ya lookers peeled for me, Any questions please feel free to ask and we will gladly answer them, Cheers and good riding to you all, Jason and shell

Pictures - where are the pictures????:Oi::devil2::banana:

[Blackbuell]

Hey, balckb. this isn't the jokes and humour forum.

Sorry i thought this was KB

[KiwiRat]

Tasty. How much if I might ask?

[Swoop]

Congrats! Pictures of the new ride please.

Welcome to KB, by the way!:ride:

[chubby]

Good on you.... I want a write up with pictures... always with pictures.

[madandy]

Keen for pics!!!!
I read about the 1125R. Sounds like a really good ride! Good engine too huh?!
Welcome to KB too :D

[slowpoke]

Pictures - where are the pictures


Pictures of the new ride please.




I want a write up with pictures... always with pictures.


Keen for pics!!!!


Are you people mad???!!! Spec's, ride impressions, road tests, comparisons etc are all welcome but that is one bike where items of a "visually representative nature" will most definitely be frowned upon. Even if it rides like a dream I'd still open the shed with my eyes closed and keep them that way until I was safely aboard........
Nah, just taking the piss mate, interesting bike, aesthetically challenged (just my cardigan wearing, socks with sandals and string singlet opinion), but interesting and we'll be looking forward to your ride impressions.
What was your previous steed? Going by the choice of the 1125R I'm guessing something "styled" by BMW......:Pokey:

[riffer]

If it's the one that was out the back of Welly Motorcycles yesterday, it's bloody nice. :love:

[Badcat]

About time ya come out of hiding,its good to see more Buell followers on this site,but dont tell too many more peeps how good these Buells really are cause everyone will want one,hahahahahahahah

agreed - and i would be quiet about where you live.
my buell was stolen professionally a couple of weeks back....
Ken

[Big Dave]

Just back from the launch shindig.

Some show it was too.

We arrived at the wind tunnel at Monash University in Melbourne on Monday night and there is Erik sitting on the machine with the whole tracer smoke thing happening - and it got better from there.

Erik & the H-D Aus boss in the truck - carting all our stuff, three techs from the factory in one van, wonderful PR girl, video and still photogs in another van, HDA's road captains and 16 journalists on 1125r's (and a Firebolt that the staffers shared)

2 days riding around the empty roads over and around the base of the Great Dividing range.

What a machine. I didn't quiz all of them but I'd say look forward to some very positive reviews from down under.

I didn't take many photos - they will be supplied - download what I have shortly.

I asked Erik for a quote for posting online and he said:

'Save me from this madman.'

We had some fun.

[Big Dave]

agreed - and i would be quiet about where you live.
my buell was stolen professionally a couple of weeks back....
Ken

The bad news is HDA are not going to release the 08 XB12X.

XB12XT will be the only model available.

I asked if they would indent one and got a probably.

[Crasherfromwayback]

Sounds good BD...I'm just pissed one of the other boys from here got sent!

[ajturbo]

but can it beat mine?? lol... ( anyone can beat it with me on baord:baby:)

hope to see it with the motor working! ( not like at the hog rally.. just a mock-up)

[Livvy]

Congrats! Have fun with it. :2thumbsup

[slowpoke]

wonderful PR girl,

Forget pic's of the fugly boik...did ya get any pic's of the PR chick?

[Big Dave]

Forget pic's of the fugly boik...did ya get any pic's of the PR chick?

Nah - she's good lookin' but not that type of PR girl - she organised and ran the event.

I quite like the look of the bike too. See it with a good rider on board and it looks OK.

I'm too big for it, but it has some nice enough lines on the road.

How it goes makes all that moot anyway.

He's wanted to build this bike for 20 years.

[slowpoke]

Nah - she's good lookin' but not that type of PR girl - she organised and ran the event.

I quite like the look of the bike too. See it with a good rider on board and it looks OK.

I'm too big for it, but it has some nice enough lines on the road.

How it goes makes all that moot anyway.

He's wanted to build this bike for 20 years.

Yep, a rider on board might bring the proportions together a bit more.

I can just imagine Eric's eyes lighting up when they were given the nod for the Rotax donk. Nothing against the Harley derived engine but horses for courses.

Shame about the PR chick.......

[Big Dave]

NZ like conditions with more reliable road surfaces than here.

Mine was the first in line.

[Big Dave]

http://web.mac.com/david_cohen_design/Site/Featured_Vid.html

I also got to play his guitar in the terminal at Albury airport while we waited for a flight. A mazing.

'Who's the best you have jammed with Erik'

'Awww...Satriani was pretty cool'

[HenryDorsetCase]

Just back from the launch shindig.

Some show it was too.

We arrived at the wind tunnel at Monash University in Melbourne on Monday night and there is Erik sitting on the machine with the whole tracer smoke thing happening - and it got better from there.

Erik & the H-D Aus boss in the truck - carting all our stuff, three techs from the factory in one van, wonderful PR girl, video and still photogs in another van, HDA's road captains and 16 journalists on 1125r's (and a Firebolt that the staffers shared)

2 days riding around the empty roads over and around the base of the Great Dividing range.

What a machine. I didn't quiz all of them but I'd say look forward to some very positive reviews from down under.

I didn't take many photos - they will be supplied - download what I have shortly.

I asked Erik for a quote for posting online and he said:

'Save me from this madman.'

We had some fun.

fuck it, I was IN Melbourne on Monday night. I could have been your +1. (maybe a Kiwirider fake ID)?

[buellbabe]

OH WOW! I am sooooooooo jealous but stoked for ya mate!
Don't get me wrong, my old girl is a keeper but when I win Lotto...

Badcat, crying for ya and you have just reinforced for me how important it is to keep yer mouth shut around anyone ya don't know. I don't feel so paranoid now.

BTW heres me on the 1125R... ok so it wasn't gonna be going anywhere but ya get the general idea LOL

[BALZYBUELL]

If it's the one that was out the back of Welly Motorcycles yesterday, it's bloody nice. :love:

it sure was.im pretty happy with it a.hopping for good weather this weekend so i can ride the rimmies.:devil2:

[BALZYBUELL]

Tasty. How much if I might ask?

hi fellow kb.just under 20k.bloody good price me thinks:devil2:

[riffer]

it sure was.im pretty happy with it a.hopping for good weather this weekend so i can ride the rimmies.

Yeah, talked to Pete about it Thursday. He was pleased as punch to get one of 5 only for NZ at the moment and said it couldn't have gone to a better chap.

You enjoy that bike Jason. It's a beauty. And don't you dare throw it over the side of the hill.

Tell me though - I reckon it'd be like a Firebolt with an RSV-R motor in it. Would I be right?

[BALZYBUELL]

Yeah, talked to Pete about it Thursday. He was pleased as punch to get one of 5 only for NZ at the moment and said it couldn't have gone to a better chap.

You enjoy that bike Jason. It's a beauty. And don't you dare throw it over the side of the hill.

Tell me though - I reckon it'd be like a Firebolt with an RSV-R motor in it. Would I be right?

cheeres mate,going to be at the shop about 10 2moro morn.if you are around would be cool to meet up with a fellow kb.went out to the hutt wednesday night for the night ride but no one there,is it only a summer thing

[riffer]

I'd love to but won't be able to. I was in there on Wednesday with a workmate - we took the gixxer thou and the B-King out. I happened to enquire when he would have an 1125R in, and Pete informed me the closest I'd get to a test ride was to have a stare at your one, on the grounds that I didn't drool over it...

Anyway, got all four kids to look after the next week (school hols and all that - and two I don't see too much so I'll make the most of it) so the chances of me getting near a bike shop is pretty piss poor.

I'll live vicariously through your posting on the ride though - you have a good one tomorrow on the hill. I'll look up wistfully tomorrow morning from my back yard (I live in Wallaceville, Upper Hutt) and think of you.

lucky bastard.

[BALZYBUELL]

hi all fellow kb's i hope to get some pics this weekend and put them up for all to see.:2thumbsup

[Big Dave]

Tell me though - I reckon it'd be like a Firebolt with an RSV-R motor in it. Would I be right?

Pretty damn close. If you took the radiators off it it would even look similar.
Arse is the same, frame, wheels etc.

[ajturbo]

OH WOW! I am sooooooooo jealous but stoked for ya mate!
Don't get me wrong, my old girl is a keeper but when I win Lotto...

Badcat, crying for ya and you have just reinforced for me how important it is to keep yer mouth shut around anyone ya don't know. I don't feel so paranoid now.

BTW heres me on the 1125R... ok so it wasn't gonna be going anywhere but ya get the general idea LOL
and you fitted on just right!!...

[MD]

Hay all you fellow kiwibikers, Just wanna pop in and tell you all that i FINALLY got my Buell1125R this morning, Haven't really had a chance to go for a good blat so if you wanna check back after my ride this saturday my beautiful and ever loving misses will have typed up alittle something for you all, Anyone in the wellington area keep ya lookers peeled for me, Any questions please feel free to ask and we will gladly answer them, Cheers and good riding to you all, Jason and shell

I went in to WMCC to check the new release out this week ,but you had scappered off with their only one as soon as the crate was opened!

The 1125r has some great features that should translate into sales, if people don't get all tissy over the looks.
It has some of the features that made my BMW F800S easy to live with. But that bike didn't get the sales results it deserved either;
-fuel cell instead of tank. And a practical volume 21 litres (I think?)
-belt instead of chain
-Rotax twin (time will tell if this is as good as the F800 motor)
-promising power to weight ratio
-has shocked the opposition in two European races so far
-all this for under $20,000

Hope you are over the hill this arvo Jason so I can see this beast in the metal.
Enjoy your new toy and post up a review soon.

Mark
edit- crap. Rain shower just passed over. I thought it was supposed to clear! Maybe no ride this arvo

[Big Dave]

I think it looks pretty good anyway. In person is a lot better than the pics.

See it with a rider on it and it all fits nicely.

I like the fairing a lot.

The radiators are on the side so as not to effect the wheelbase and are wind tunnel optimised.

Ride one and you'll soon get over them.

[Crasherfromwayback]

If anyone is wanting a new 1125R, feel free to PM me or email me here at work.

pmcdonald@wmcc.co.nz

(04) 8010-725 DDI

[Forest]

I think it looks pretty good anyway. In person is a lot better than the pics.

See it with a rider on it and it all fits nicely.

I like the fairing a lot.

The radiators are on the side so as not to effect the wheelbase and are wind tunnel optimised.

Ride one and you'll soon get over them.

Good point! You can't see it when you're riding it.

[sinfull]

If anyone is wanting a new 1125R, feel free to PM me or email me here at work.

pmcdonald@wmcc.co.nz

(04) 8010-725 DDI

Bloody nice it looks too Pete !
If i wasn't for the fact we want a t bird (or sim) for HRH, I'd be keen on having a look at trading one of the triples on it (Well the 955 anyway lol)!

[Crasherfromwayback]

Bloody nice it looks too Pete !
If i wasn't for the fact we want a t bird (or sim) for HRH, I'd be keen on having a look at trading one of the triples on it (Well the 955 anyway lol)!

Hey...I've got a 'T' Bird here too!

[sinfull]

Hey...I've got a 'T' Bird here too!

Bill here mate, was just up the top with one of the other salesman having a look at it !
Be nothin in it for ya in a trade on the 955 but we will come back with some gear and the 955 to talk options/test ride etc !
Haha or should i ? Could see me riding out of there on something totally impractical for her mmm like a night train or that Buell for instance !
Hehe She's still on her R for at least 3 more months yet, plenty of time for her to get over it, if i did !

[Crasherfromwayback]

Sweet as Bill...saw you here before!

You're always welcome to test ride stuff as you know mate!

[Big Dave]

Hey...I've got a 'T' Bird here too!

So have I. But 'taint for sale.

[Crasherfromwayback]

So have I. But 'taint for sale.

Yeah now they don't make the triples anymore they're starting to come back up in value too! A lot of peeps prefer them to the twins.Me too.