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The Buell Motorcycle
Company is an American motorcycle manufacturer based in East
Troy, Wisconsin and founded by ex-Harley-Davidson engineer Erik
Buell.
Most Buell motorcycles use four-stroke air-cooled V-twin
engines, originally built from XR1000 Sportster engines. After
these were depleted, a basic 1200 Sportster engine was used. In
1995, the engines were upgraded with Buell engineered high
performance parts, and further upgraded in 1998.
Current Models
Blast
The Blast is Buell's only model to use a single-cylinder engine. To date the Buell Blast is Buell's best selling model.
Single-cylinder motorcycles are commonly called Thumpers.
Firebolt
2005 Firebolt XB12RThe Firebolt XB12R is marketed by Buell as a
sportbike.
Lightning
Lightning CityX XB9SX ,
Lightning XB12S ,
Lightning Low XB12Scg ,
Lightning Long XB12Ss ,
Lightning Super TT XB12STT ,
The Lightning series is marketed by Buell as streetfighters.
Ulysses
Ulysses XB12X ,Ulysses XB12XT
1125R
In July, 2007, Buell announced the 1125R, a sportbike which
departed from Buell's history of using Harley Davidson style
powerplants and tapping into the XBRR racing bike learnings.
Racing
Buell also produces the 50 XBRR racing-only machines for
factory-backed and dealership run privateer racing teams.
Earlier models included the RW750 Road Warrior, RR1000
BattleTwin, RR1200 BattleTwin, RS1200 WestWind , RS1200S
WestWind , RSS1200 WestWind,S2 Thunderbolt , S2T Thunderbolt ,
S3 Thunderbolt, S1 Lightning , S3T Thunderbolt, S1W White
Lightning , M2 Cyclone, X1 Lightning, XB Series , all of which utilized
tubular steel frames.
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