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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    Good old NZ - show a new idea and stand back and wait while the knockers and pickers flap in and pick it to pieces.....



    Like more than a few were ever likely to buy one....?
    Yeah....it'll be those of us not knocking it that'll be buying it.....now if I can just convince Buell to sponsor me in the motard scene....

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    eww I don't fance the left side kickstart.

    Is rotax that good at building engines?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cheese View Post
    eww I don't fance the left side kickstart.

    Is rotax that good at building engines?
    Yeah I had a CR480 years ago that was left side kick....maggot of a thing!
    Mind you....I've been having to start my RMZ with my left leg seeing as my right ankle is still so rooted...kinda getting the hang of it now!
    It may be leckie start...I'll soon know!

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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    Good old NZ - show a new idea and stand back and wait while the knockers and pickers flap in and pick it to pieces.....

    I was just complaining about the lack off stickers,a pretty valid complaint I reckon.Like,who the fuck would buy a bike without stickers? It's just so dorky man.

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    Quote Originally Posted by scumdog View Post
    Good old NZ - show a new idea and stand back and wait while the knockers and pickers flap in and pick it to pieces.....
    Like more than a few were ever likely to buy one....?
    Its called constructive criticism, a good designer does it to themselves 1,000,000 times a day.
    Anyone who designs something and doesn't "What is wrong with my design?", is cocky.
    While i get the concept of the fuel in the frame, for this bike i don't see the real point as the bike doesn't look that much smaller, and i have never seen an air box that was too small on a standard bike.
    I'm a big fan of the motard scene, and of buells - but i don't see this taking off for them - its and aprilla with fuel in the frame (and it will prob weigh more than the aprilla).
    Very un-uneventful for buell. I'm guessing that its made in china and buell just chuck a sticker on it.
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    Having the fuel up high and forward is not a good idea,just that's the way it's always done.Getting that changing weight lower and more central is a good idea.I have no problem with inovation....just the price I have to pay to sample it.By the time I can afford these things the inovation is called classic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by avgas View Post
    Oversize frame vs a small lightweight plastic tank. Is this another nasa idea....like that pen for space (Russians took a pencil)
    I'm a big fan of buells, but i dont really see this going far - take the buell blast for example, nice bike, but failed to launch.
    How about something buellish to go against the 620 duke and MadAss 500? That would sell.
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    they should have used a crayon then..........

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    just heard on a US Motocross site that the whole Buell/ Harley MX bike has been scrapped

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    Quote Originally Posted by vifferman View Post
    Maybe now they'll start sticking Rotax engines in their roadbikes. Lose some weight and gain some horsies...
    They already do use the the rotax engines, it's an Austrian one and the new roadbikes put out 149hp. still a fair way of the others.

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    As for the kick start who says it wasn't just electric start anyway?

    How soon before you know CFWB?
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    Quote Originally Posted by merv View Post
    As for the kick start who says it wasn't just electric start anyway?

    How soon before you know CFWB?
    Well at the Harley/Buell dealer conference they stated it was gonna be shown shortly...so fingers crossed!

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    It was canned yesterday. Harley kiboshed it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave View Post
    It was canned yesterday. Harley kiboshed it.
    Bad buzz!!!@!

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