Anyone see a Buell Firebolt yet?

[benVFR]

Anyone see a Firebolt out on the road?

SilverSurfer and his 200-post thread on SBN has me really curious.

My local dealership didn't have one last weekend, they didn't even have anything about the contest to win one.

I really want to see one in person. I saw like 3 V-ROD's last weekend already, I would have thought I'd run into a firebolt pretty quick.

Ben

[Edited on 5/2/02 by benSV]

[GadgettR1]

They had one at Vanson's open house.. along with a Vrod.

[SilverSurfer]

Ya, I saw one. Should we discuss it endlessly and use up the NESR server space??

I'll admit, it's a cool bike, technically, but not the best looker... that front fairing is a turd. I really want to take one for a ride. If I'm lucky, I'll win the contest.

[Stoneman]

Personally, I don't like the idea of a half 'tank' of gas sloshing around underneath me. Not to mention that frames usually get heavily damaged in accidents, which would tell me that the design is a bit dangerous. I admired summa the breakthroughs initiated with this bike, but I just can't get over the tank in the frame thing. Just seems like a multitude of lawsuits waiting to happen...

[benVFR]

I think the oil in the swingarm sounds more bizarre to me.

I wouldn't worry about the gas in the frame too much. It's not like the regular tanks on other sportbikes survive high speed accidents that often.

It'll still be a lot more cool when they give him a nicer engine. I have to imagine if he did all this crazy stuff to a 750cc or 600cc inline 60/90-degree liquid-cooled twin it would be even cooler.

Ben

[Stoneman]

Do you remember the RF tank, Jay? I think frames are far more sturdy than gas tanks... (note, I said I THINK, lol). Yeah, anyway, I'm gonna go look at pics of the RF.

Ya fuckin' KAK!!! That NEVER woulda happened if you didn't kick my front tire while you were passing me! T he tank wasn't leaking tho, but the frame and swingarm were cracked. Thus my point. Frames on sportbikes are much more prone to failure due to accidents. And like I said...how's the bike gonna handle when the frame is down to a quarter 'tank'? Just doesn't sound all that stable to me, and it AMAZES me that the DOT with all it's regulations allows something like that!

[Stoneman]

If Eric Buell wanted to make a REAL sportbike, they'd have their counterpart, Rouche Racing develop a REAL motor for them. What the fuck??? Like a Harley Sportster engine can withstand the rigors of what modern day sportbikes dole out. Gimme a fuckin' break. The WORST thing Buell did was sell 50% of his company to Harley...