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great bike, great price...
if you can handle red
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-359088075.htm
(can you tell i'm trump biased?)
actually the more i look at it the more i think it ain't a bad deal if it is as tidy as it looks in the pics
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Nice funky looking bike! $10k is a fair offer.Interesting price being asked too
I am a short arse indeed. That looks like a nice bike though.
Bring back Buell
she will accept 10k,just not from Mom........
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Yes I did read that thread. Breako downo the communicadoshe will accept 10k,just not from Mom........
gee wizzz
Hey Mom just thinking about this -"its too tall for me" thing.
One model buel is too tall
WHY is it too tall?
By that what I mean is what is the actual difference between the two bikes that makes the seat height wrong on one.
I dunno enough about Buells to comment but if its something easy like the seat is a different shape or the dogbones are different then maybee its really easy to adjust.
Maybee its worth asking around.
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Bring back Buell
Frosty the scg Buell has shorter front forks and rear shock along with a lower profile seat. Any XB Buell can be turned into a SCG of sorts..... if the parts can be found..
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Not one model Buell. All Buells except an XBScg (or the XB9SL). Given my reputation as a grumpy arsehole I'll continue. I think lowering bikes is the biggest crock of bullshit ever. The "lowered" bikes I've ridden have steered like a shopping trolley and they end up with less ground clearance than the average 250cc cruiser. The violent weight transfer under heavy braking has to be experienced to be believed. Perhaps this is a symptom of enthusiastic amateurs lowering bikes and a properly setup one is different. I've yet to bump into one.
One difference between a stock XB and the XBScg is the seat shape. I'm almost certain that the forks, and rear suspension are also different to a stock XBS. The Scg still a pleasure to ride, not a dangerously compromised disaster waiting to happen and that's because of the significant effort that has gone into maintaining the dynamics and ground clearance of the stock XBS range.
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I've just been looking at the Buell forum and it looks like Scg parts are turning into rocking horse poo. There was one interesting thread about bunging Scg suspension parts on a Uly.
You can tell the difference visually by the colour on the springs too apparently. Still trying to find the colour codes.
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Fully agree, any lowering solution worth less than a grand, is probably worthless. Rear link geometry is too finely tuned for just adding longer dogbones.
Maybe some go-go gadget boots to deploy when stoppedor some fold down trainer wheels
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No dog bones, it's a linkless system. Brief bit of research seems to show a shorter shock, same forks mounted higher in a different lower trippleclamp, different seat.
The only thing not quickly and reasonably cheaply solved is the lower trippleclamp. I can't find how much higher that allows the forks to be lifted but I've heard you can drop one 2" without the clamp, (shock, seat). Buell say the SCG is 2 1/2" lower than the S.
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Maybe some go-go gadget boots to deploy when stoppedYou will keep!
The Buell scg is factory intended to be small. It was designed that way. I also am not a big fan of "lowering" bikes for lowering sake. I also worry about fork travel, lack of suspension travel and general all round compromised suspension. I dont ride hard, but that makes no difference to me, I want a bike that wont let me down if I am in a place I need to rely on how my bike handles to get out of trouble. I would also like to know that I can push it my styles and have it forgive any mistake I might make.
Meh, I would need to be VERY convinced an XB12 can be lowered sucessfully to fit me and my short arse, without compromsing handling. They are a bit peppy, and from all accounts go like stink. Imagine riding one that does not handle as expected and the kind of trouble you could find yourself in if you relied on compromised suspension.
This does not just apply to the XB though, any bike, my thoughts are the same.
No pimply faced teen will ever convince me that a bike can be lowered to fit me without compromising the handling, unless he/she can provide evidence disproving my natural self preservation barrier.
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Why thank you m'dear.
But I was simply pointing out what the factory had done to make the SCG from an XB12S. Shock, seat and trippleclamp.
They're seriously short, I suspect that's why the SCG works OK, the changes don't mess up the geometry as they would on a "normal" machine.
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The Buell scg is factory intended to be small. It was designed that way. I also am not a big fan of "lowering" bikes for lowering sake. I also worry about fork travel, lack of suspension travel and general all round compromised suspension. I dont ride hard, but that makes no difference to me, I want a bike that wont let me down if I am in a place I need to rely on how my bike handles to get out of trouble. I would also like to know that I can push it my styles and have it forgive any mistake I might make.
Meh, I would need to be VERY convinced an XB12 can be lowered sucessfully to fit me and my short arse, without compromsing handling. They are a bit peppy, and from all accounts go like stink. Imagine riding one that does not handle as expected and the kind of trouble you could find yourself in if you relied on compromised suspension.
This does not just apply to the XB though, any bike, my thoughts are the same.
No pimply faced teen will ever convince me that a bike can be lowered to fit me without compromising the handling, unless he/she can provide evidence disproving my natural self preservation barrier.
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