A sad Buell story

[Big Dave]

http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buel...tml?1178714981

[vifferman]

If it makes you feel any better I have been waiting 6 weeks for a cush drive. Yes, 6 weeks! Still got a week to wait too.

Is that through the dealers?
I needed new cush drive rubbers for my VFR, and the dealers said none were available in NZ, nor in Japan, so they'd have to go on indent (basically when enough orders were received, they'd manufacture some). "It could take up to 3 months or more".
So, I decided to order them, paid my deposit, and waited.
And waited.
And contacted them.
And waited.
And contacted them. They'd misplaced the order by now (nearly 6 months!), and offered me the choice of a refund or reorder. I took the refund, ordered some from the US (at less than 1/4 of the price!) and had them in a week.
Now I'll only order common or heavy parts locally. The interdweeb is your friend...

[Jeaves]

Same here , i order all my Genuine Yamaha parts direct from Japan , approx a 1/3 to 1/2 of the price from Yam NZ . I normally would support the local dealers but the pricing is unreal.

[Drum]

Is that through the dealers?.

Yep. They have "guaranteed" delivery in the next week. I, too, was on some sort of back order. Now I have found the rubbers on Ebay for $60 ($150 from the dealer!). Lesson learnt!

[pritch]

I still think that it is the best machine

Well BIKE make mention of Buell quality and reliability issues in the latest issue. Usually the name Buell is coupled with a phrase like "build quality problems". An Australian magazine referred to inexplicable breakdowns earlier this year.

They are a really interesting concept though and I'd love to ride an XB12S but they are potentially just too exciting for me to want to own one.

I hope the weather does its thing for you. (And for me :-)

[Big Dave]

I got 25,000km on mine - no issues other than the wheel bearing and occasional TPS reset.

This was only an experiment...almost 21,000 veiws and some neat comments later.....Wish I hadn't done it in 2 hours.

Still current:

[RantyDave]

I think i'm going to have to try me one of those XB12X's some time.

I found it really weird. I was expecting it to be as twitchy as a bastard, but it was actually really stable and heavier into the turns than I thought it would be. It's way more comfortable than you would have thought reasonable. There's plenty torque, but bugger all revs which I found difficult to come to terms with having been riding a 4 that will rev to the moon given half a chance. The rev limiter's a savage little bastard too. The aerodynamics are much better than you would have thought and build quality (despite this thread) seemed excellent.

Give it a go. I'm certainly not going to write it off, I did have fun and it did go fast

Dave

[Rashika]

I got 25,000km on mine - no issues other than the wheel bearing and occasional TPS reset.

This was only an experiment...almost 21,000 veiws and some neat comments later.....Wish I hadn't done it in 2 hours.

oh Dave, that was soooooooo sweeeeettttt!
Actually it was pretty good, Buell should have you on their payroll!