Xceler8x
Xceler8x GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/24/11 8:00 p.m.
stuart in mn
stuart in mn SuperDork
5/24/11 9:05 p.m.

Seems awful cheap for what looks like a nice bike.

confuZion3
confuZion3 SuperDork
5/25/11 2:17 p.m.

Considering the fact that you could buy a 2011 Lightning XB12S off the showroom floor for like $5,000... stupid Harley-Davidson killing Buell and then killing Buell resale values...

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury SuperDork
5/25/11 2:29 p.m.

its sure sharp looking, but over a grand in the CC dept and I know it will be my undoing

Keith
Keith GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
5/25/11 5:19 p.m.

Yeah, Bill at Flyin' Miata picked up one of those fire sale Lightnings. It makes him smile.

"Tuber". Does that mean it has a HD engine and goes "potato potato"?

confuZion3
confuZion3 SuperDork
5/25/11 6:29 p.m.
Keith wrote: Yeah, Bill at Flyin' Miata picked up one of those fire sale Lightnings. It makes him smile. "Tuber". Does that mean it has a HD engine and goes "potato potato"?

It has a tube frame as opposed to the chunk aluminum frame of the later Lightnings.

They sorta go "potato potato", but thanks to Erik Buell's exhaust team, it sounds more like a cross between a dragster and a John Deere tractor. (I like it...)

MitchellC
MitchellC Dork
5/25/11 6:34 p.m.

I think the purpose of Keith's question was to exploit the pun.

confuZion3
confuZion3 SuperDork
5/25/11 7:39 p.m.

OH! Tuber. I get it now.

knocks head against desk

I still think they sound more like John Deere dragsters.

stuart in mn
stuart in mn SuperDork
5/25/11 9:21 p.m.

I want to build a cruiser bike with a John Deere engine.

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