Buell opinions?

Ponytail

New Member
$600/yr for each of mine. '05 Buell XB12R and '98 Springer Softail. Both full coverage.

BUT, I have ALL of my vehicles under the same Ins. Co. So I get Accident free discount, multicar discount, etc, etc.

Progressive wanted $1200 a year for the Buell Alone. I got that JUST long enough to get the bike home and cancel the insurance.
 

aps45819

24/7 Single Dad
I haven't had a policy in over 20 years.

That's most likely the problem.



Got my Cycle World and Motorcyclist magazines in the mail yesterday. They're both full of stories about Buell's liquidation sale, including that "F#ck Harley" is spray painted on the factory wall :lol:
 

aps45819

24/7 Single Dad
Buy it as a company vehicle, slap some Gude's Flower Power logos on the bags and write it off as a "green" delivery vehicle.
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
Question:

You are coming up to a 4 way intersection, stop and then going to make a right turn.

Do you;

A; set up in the left part of your lane

B; center part of your lane

C. right part of your lane

or

D; It's a Harley, do whatever the hell you want.



Keep in mind the MD DMV motorcycle handbook says, expressly, says what the answer is and this did not agree with their test.

:popcorn:
 

Pete

Repete
Question:

You are coming up to a 4 way intersection, stop and then going to make a right turn.

Do you;

A; set up in the left part of your lane

B; center part of your lane

C. right part of your lane

or

D; It's a Harley, do whatever the hell you want.



Keep in mind the MD DMV motorcycle handbook says, expressly, says what the answer is and this did not agree with their test.

:popcorn:
D; It's a Harley, do whatever the hell you want.
 

aps45819

24/7 Single Dad
Question:

You are coming up to a 4 way intersection, stop and then going to make a right turn.

Do you;

A; set up in the left part of your lane

B; center part of your lane

C. right part of your lane

or

D; It's a Harley, do whatever the hell you want.



Keep in mind the MD DMV motorcycle handbook says, expressly, says what the answer is and this did not agree with their test.

:popcorn:

A - you should be riding in same place in your lane that you'd be over if you were sitting in a car.

... and you'd have to be WAyyyyy over to the left on a harley to keep from scraping the new chrome Kuryakyn floorboards you just bolted on.
 

glhs837

Power with Control
Concur with Aps, gives me both the most visibilty to traffic approaching from the rear, and the most options to bug out if it drop in the pan.
 

Pete

Repete
A - you should be riding in same place in your lane that you'd be over if you were sitting in a car.

... and you'd have to be WAyyyyy over to the left on a harley to keep from scraping the new chrome Kuryakyn floorboards you just bolted on.

Please, like anyone would bolt Kuryakyn stuff on their Harley when authentic Harley accessories are available for a few hundred dollars more. :rolleyes:
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
A - you should be riding in same place in your lane that you'd be over if you were sitting in a car.

... and you'd have to be WAyyyyy over to the left on a harley to keep from scraping the new chrome Kuryakyn floorboards you just bolted on.

The handbook talks about riding in the center most of the time yet, at intersections and, specifically, blind intersections, it speaks of positioning such that you can see around the corner, ie, the left portion for a right turn.

The test said 'center'.

:tap:
 

glhs837

Power with Control
Yah, center of the lane is never a place to hang out, but especially at stops. Only time to spent time there is if the roadway is rutted so that the outer section of the lane are flooded.
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
Yah, center of the lane is never a place to hang out, but especially at stops. Only time to spent time there is if the roadway is rutted so that the outer section of the lane are flooded.

State says center is where you are supposed to be most of the time unless there is a danger to your right or left.
 
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