Buell is dead.

[Kbrick]

From the very beginning Buell as a company was out on the edge of motorcycling. All of their products were outside the metaphorical box of accepted orthodoxy. They hung on to a core belief that was just beyond the mainstream market.
Sometimes different is better but it doesn't always sell.

[pimento]

Buell might be coming back?

[jcp123]

Originally Posted by f6fhellcat13

jcp, I think despite their lack of chrome, Harleys are still Harleys, with all of the baggage that that carries. Hell, even the fast ones like yours have uncomparable performance to the foreign bikes. I have no problem with laid-back cruisers (unless I'm talking to Kitdy), but it is disappointing for me to see that said laid-back cruisers are the only American bikes being made.

You might call something like mine more of a Power Cruiser, which has been a sort of trend in cruisers lately - everything from the rather piggish Honda VTX 1800 to Kawasaki Mean Streaks, Victory Hammers, even Harley V-Rods and the Mighty Max (VMax), if you consider it a power cruiser, are cruisers, yeah, but meant to shed a lot of that stodgy cruiser image. Successful? Some more than others...there's a lot of show boats out there (Victory Hammer, Kawi Mean Streak, VTX), as well as some genuine performers (V-Rod and V-Max).

As to comparing them to sportbikes, well, yeah, point taken, but sportbikes aren't for everyone, myself included. I guess it comes down to a matter of taste.

[pimento]

Does a Triumph Rocket count as a power cruiser? My uncle has one of them.. damn it's awesome.

[anonperson]

hmm...

[jcp123]

Yeah, I think the Rocket III falls in that category - brutal torque makes that bike! And I love torque. I'm too small to manage something that size though

[SilverPanny]

rumors of a resurrection has been floating around, anyone hear this?

[pimento]

Yea, I linked to it on the previous page. Any further rumours around it?