Now today I was pulling into the parking lot at work, and I blew an oil cooler line. It was due to on a prior service (I bought the bike used) somebody removed the clamp in between the two oil cooler lines to hold them apart, so they rubbed together and made a leak. Only a $70 fix, but my bike will be down for the weekend because nobody stocks those.
thats bogas the belts on the full size Harleys last over 100.000 miles with no problems...have a belt on a 113 ci motor for 6 years now with over 60.000 miles..thats a lot of hole shots....its not the power thats breaking belts on the buells...has to be the design ?
The design for sure. The belts are designed around harley engines, while the buell is a sportbike (more or less). The average sportbike rider will put the engine through its paces and will hurt equipment that was otherwise designed for touring.
paperclip i understand what your saying but the belts on the harleys are running more hp and torque on a lot of the modified harleys and almost twice the weight...and are riden just as hard.im talking 127 lbs of torque lasting 10 years ..riden hard....10.000 miles on a buell being the average..i just cant understand...the belts i see on the harleys lasting over 100.000 miles dont run that wheel that puts tenchen on the belts...are they needed
I have a 2000 Buell x1 and I just got it I went for about 30 mile ride today and when I stopped I noticed that there was oil on the ground, it was coming form the rear shock. My Buell has about 10000 miles on it is this normal and is it fixable????
Not normal, but a pretty easy and small amount of money to fix. It just blew the oil seal in the shock. Just take it out and have it rebuilt somewhere or take it to any good motorcycle shop and have them do it.
Hey all, I need to replace steering head bearings on my 05 xb12r.(dont know how they could be shagged;)) Wondering if its possible to convert to tapered bearings?