Buell may not make the cheapest, lightest, or the fastest bikes out there, but they do make bikes that handle well. They make a bike that a rider can actually use on normal roads, not some track day scalpel (though they can do that too).
Buell understands technology, and has generated some of the most innovative designs in the motorcycle industry. Zero-Torsional Load (ZTL) brakes, underslung exhaust, fuel-in-frame. These are only a few of the innovations that make Buell unique in the motorcycle world, and more recently, envied and copied. Look at where many motorcycle manufacturers are moving exhausts these days (under the bike).
When Buell released the XB12X Ulysses in 2006, I knew that eventually I would have one. I test drove one on three separate occasions. In October of 2007, I brought one home. Most of the bikes I have had before have lost their appeal within a year or so of ownership, but not this one. I’m just getting started with it.
I originally saw this video on the Motorcycle.com blog, and had to repost it here. It captures a lot of the reasons why I ride one.
Buell Motorcycles – :30 Advertisement – Patents from paul on Vimeo.
