Re: Buell Blast

Sometime before 16 Jan 2006, Polarhound stated:

> Paladin wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:22:31 -0800, "P.Roehling"
>> <Pete.Roehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Paladin" <ls650{modelname}@sbcglobal.net> wrote
>>>
>>>
>>>>While I am not particularly impressed with the Buell Blast, I would
>>>>not make a judgement upon just one disgruntled person.
>>>
>>>Uh, try actually reading the website. There are posts there from a
>>>*lot* of unhappy Blast owners, not "just one".
>>
>>
>> selected by the site owner. You should not make a judgement of
>> anything based upon a single web site.
>
> Here's what Motorcycle.com had to say about various late-model Buells:
>
> "It's a rollicking redneck of a motorcycle that's as funky and
> discombobulated as a hot southern belle working on a plug of Skoal."
>
> "The Sportster based mill looked mean, and ready. The first
> disappointment was when Sean started it in the parking lot. It sounded
> a lot like a weed whacker....with asthma."
>
> "The XB-12's fuel injection allows for smooth and linear power
> delivery, though the bike does stumble and cough on occasion when
> blipping the throttle from idle."
>
> "That 1200 motor is hideously torquey, maybe a bit too much; if you
> like too much of a good thing, it's a motor purpose-built for your
> tastes, as long as you can live with the slightly wonky fuel-injection
> and sticky throttle our testers noted."
>
> "The engine detonates under load in hot weather, regardless of the
> fuel grade used. I suspect this is due to Buell using lots of ignition
> advance and relatively high compression in an attempt to squeeze
> adequate power from that anvil of a motor. It also has a sticky
> throttle, which will maintain whatever setting you dial-in, even after
> you take you hand off it. This might be a little scary for some riders
> and is totally unacceptable for a modern motorcycle."
>
> "it shakes like a diesel generator at idle .. Both Pete and Dirty
> noted the poor off-idle response from the fuel injection, calling it
> the "least-sorted" and "sub-standard." That poor response can also be
> noted in the dyno chart as a big dip between one and two thousand RPM.
> The "clutch and tranny are reminiscent of a 1968 John Deere" according
> to Pete, and Gabe couldn't help but notice the long throw and crude
> feel from the gearbox. Finding neutral was about "as easy as finding a
> kosher butcher in Baghdad", according to the Visceral Wordsmith."
>

How about the whole article where Motorcycle.com compared the Blast to a
number of other value bikes? Have a read:

http://motorcycle.com/mo/mccompare/valuebike/00valuebike.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/cofxo

It's dated, written in 2000, but certainly an objective review.

For what it's designed to do, the Blast seems like a good bike. Break
it in right, do the maintenance, and don't ask it to do sustained 85mph
runs for hours and hours on end and it'll likely stand up pretty well.

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