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    Buell city, here I come...

    Thanks for taking the time to do the ride and review Jim, most appreciated. If I can't get the money together in time, you have my permission to buy this one, and I'll get the one from R&S

    Dare I say, "His & Hers"? (I'd cross dress for an STT)
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Now you lot need to be brave and try a bike you think wouldn't be "you".[/SIZE]
    Now thats a good line Jim, I will have to go and quote that to CFWB for a testride. (and a few other bike shops as well!!)
    Experience......something you get just after you needed it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krayy View Post
    Thanks for taking the time to do the ride and review Jim, most appreciated. If I can't get the money together in time, you have my permission to buy this one, and I'll get the one from R&S

    Dare I say, "His & Hers"? (I'd cross dress for an STT)
    You don't need the money now mate...ride it home now...pay later!

    Pete

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    The Jeremy Clarkson approach to test write ups - very enjoyable - well done that man!
    I like Buells, and mst keeps threatening to test ride a few......
    “- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

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    ssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh


    people need to stop going on about how good Buells are.
    man you'll get to many people interested in em
    whats that going to do to resale values...

    push em up of course.

    they're nearly in reach for me now
    please don't push the prices up
    please please please...



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    Quote Originally Posted by NZsarge View Post
    Do you think there would scope to remodel the set to get it much lower?
    Crass I know but has to be asked.... How much?
    Why would YOU need to lower the seat, Lurch?

    Yes there is a bit of scope to do that, but if I were buying I wouldn't need to.

    Price is mentioned "elsewhere".
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Why would YOU need to lower the seat, Lurch?

    Yes there is a bit of scope to do that, but if I were buying I wouldn't need to.
    I was thinking of someone else actually, although interesting for sure it's really not my cuppa.

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    This would be the one if you are after a Beautiful Buell for the vertically challenged.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Now Jim, that first post is just beyond awesome... Thanks for the read
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    Great writeup James, you have good skill with words. I like Buells but personally I'd like to see them dressed a bit - front fairing, and that empty space at the back just seems to be asking for something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Winston001 View Post
    Great writeup James, you have good skill with words. I like Buells but personally I'd like to see them dressed a bit - front fairing, and that empty space at the back just seems to be asking for something.
    nah.
    minimalist r us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    nah.
    minimalist r us.
    Yep, sometimes less is more

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    Funny, I was just thinking the same. Of the bikes I've ridden in the last few years, the four that stand out the most are, in the following order of personal desirability the TT, the HD Rocker, the Aprilia Shiver, and the MT-01. All pretty much motorcycles with a stripped down ethos. A couple of wheels, an adequate seat, suspension that works, and an engine bulging with character.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    I won't tell the mean greenie you said that... It's temperamental enough as it is without having to introduce emotional harm as well.
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

    Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat

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    Great write up, James Sir.

    Sounds like you like the oldie-pushrodie machines to me.
    Want to borrow the V11 for another long-distance blast?
    Just don't pop the rear tyre....


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