2009 Buell 1125CR Street Fighter First Ride

The all-new 2009 Buell 1125CR. Motorcycle USA tests out the 1125CR. Buell's contemporary vision of a cafe racer on the street and track in Germany. Check out the video and then read the full review at www.motorcycle-usa.com

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[backintack]

I wish Buell was still in business

[serbonbon]

BADASS AMERICAN BIKES

[hzuiel]

@germankid93 those landlines as the backbone of their wireless network, which is profiting massively. Not to mention fios and dsl internet sales. They're playing a shell game with their numbers to make it look like they can't afford to pay their employees the agreed upon wage the unions already negotiated, and was agreed upon. Buell could be no different. I've found from being a buell owner, that most of them are loyal customers, who HD pissed all over.

[hzuiel]

@germankid93 Agreed on the second point, but I'd like to see these numbers you're talking about. Numbers can lie though, companies shift stuff around for their own nefarious purposes all the time. They could easily hide the money brought in by buell merchandising and the money made by their dealerships servicing buells. There's just been a huge strike at verizon over trying to slash employee benefits, because they claimed their landline service is losing money, when in reality they are using

[germankid93]

@hzuiel There is a way because I've seen their margins and the were losing money. Also I'm sure Harley never thought of using that technology on their own bikes or leasing it out because they're fucking stupid

[hzuiel]

@germankid93 I know exactly what is involved in turning a profit and it's still horse crap. There is no way that buell was losing money when using many parts from HD's stockpile and in the final years, buying engines from rotax. Plus the RD that was done, often benefitted HD because it presented ways to improve their own engines and spawned patents which could have been utilized to gain an advantage over competition or leased to other companies for production rights.

[germankid93]

@hzuiel just because something is priced over dealer invoice doesn't mean the company makes money. The amount of money that company spends to develop and produce the product still has to be eclipsed by the money made from selling products and service and that did not happen with Buell.

[hzuiel]

@fryloc359 Why? there are many HD dealers that sell other bikes that aren't even associated. The HD dealer around here is also an authorized bmw motorcycle dealer. Most car dealerships sell at least two brands of cars, like ford and toyota, or kia and hyundai. I think HD had a good idea when they realized that the younger generation is growing away from cruiser bikes and brought erik buell back on board to make bikes. Somehow they forgot about that good idea and shat all over everything.

[hzuiel]

@germankid93 Buell not making money is crap though, lots of buells sold, and the stealerships sold their typical overpriced merchandise to buell riders too. A buell riding suit was overpriced just like a harley one, and they got to sell generic oil and filters with the HD name on it and charge people 40 or 50 bucks for a simple oil change, and 65 dollars an hour for service. All the buell manuals say bring it to a HD dealer and only use HD products in and on the bike.

[ExpressionOfShock]

An 1125 is a bit too big for me - I'm not into bikes for crazy performance or anything.

But I've gotta say, that bike is so fucking sick looking. It's... Jesus.

[richardarichter123]

big fan of these bikes cool and fast a g-turn a on motorcycle cool a old bmx trick a g-turn

[richardarichter123]

big fan of these bikes cool and fast