Do you think it will make it?

[aprilMember]

Hi Guys,

A friend on mine has a Buell Ulysses 1100 and wants to start doing some adventure riding (Buell promotes it as an adventure bike??). We took it to clarance on saturday and did the road from the zig zag railway to the glow worm caves. It was his first time on dirt EVER! so I didn’t take him on any fire trails. I had a ride of it and holy crap…… it is heavy, and bloody quick. I’m not game to take it on the road I’m too much of an idiot lol. Got it sideways around a corner and scared the living crap out of myself :whistle: :whistle: :pinch:

Do you think it would handle a nav run?
He can ride pretty well, but I don’t want to throw him into a nav run if the bike is too heavy or not right for it.

Any thoughts? He doesn’t have knobbys on it at all just intermediate road tyres.

[GregMember]

oldgirl wrote:

Hi Guys,

A friend on mine has a Buell Ulysses 1100 and wants to start doing some adventure riding (Buell promotes it as an adventure bike??). We took it to clarance on saturday and did the road from the zig zag railway to the glow worm caves. It was his first time on dirt EVER! so I didn’t take him on any fire trails. I had a ride of it and holy crap…… it is heavy, and bloody quick. I’m not game to take it on the road I’m too much of an idiot lol. Got it sideways around a corner and scared the living crap out of myself :whistle: :whistle: :pinch:

Do you think it would handle a nav run?
He can ride pretty well, but I don’t want to throw him into a nav run if the bike is too heavy or not right for it.

Any thoughts? He doesn’t have knobbys on it at all just intermediate road tyres.

No no no way in hell will that go where Pete and I have pre run today, not a hope

Sorry

TB

[Shane CosgroveMember]

Trailboss wrote:

oldgirl wrote:

Hi Guys,

A friend on mine has a Buell Ulysses 1100 and wants to start doing some adventure riding (Buell promotes it as an adventure bike??). We took it to clarance on saturday and did the road from the zig zag railway to the glow worm caves. It was his first time on dirt EVER! so I didn’t take him on any fire trails. I had a ride of it and holy crap…… it is heavy, and bloody quick. I’m not game to take it on the road I’m too much of an idiot lol. Got it sideways around a corner and scared the living crap out of myself :whistle: :whistle: :pinch:

Do you think it would handle a nav run?
He can ride pretty well, but I don’t want to throw him into a nav run if the bike is too heavy or not right for it.

Any thoughts? He doesn’t have knobbys on it at all just intermediate road tyres.

No no no way in hell will that go where Pete and I have pre run today, not a hope

Sorry

TB

If he insists I would be happy to sit behind him with the helmet cam running :laugh: I think clearance and suspension travel would be a big problem.

http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/motorcycles/122_0702_bmw_r1200gs_buell_xb12x_ulysses_ktm_990_adventure/viewall.html

[aprilMember]

:laugh: :laugh:

thats good to know guys. Thanks. I had a hard time when the road got pretty pot holed and it bottomed out the forks on a hole. But I thought it best to check with the experts.

Its hard to explain to someone that has only ever ridden road what trail bike riding is like. Those road boys really have NO IDEA.

[GarryMember]

Used to ride with a guy who did have a Ullysses and once he could not go anywhere near the placed that my Weestrom could, not to mention that on anything resembling ruts etc he struggled big time.

He did try to find suitable tyres but could not so ended up selling it and getting a g450, which he crashed more often than we care to recall

To this day I remember him describing the Buell as the worst bike he had ridden.

No idea of how your mate rides or his ability, but this guy was relatively new to dirt after a great number of years away (the family no bike thing)

[scott bockingMember]

Sounds like a good bike for OBT (Old Bull Tar Riders) :cheer:

STM

[aprilMember]

The Buell is really top heavy so it feels awkward at low speeds. The website promotes it as an adventure tourer, but what does that even mean? It can handle unsealed roads and that’s it I think.

Don’t know about it being a bad bike. It was more comfortable than the Harley wide glide I was on a few weeks ago, and more fun than the Harley road king I was on last week.
I’ve been on it on the road and even with two of us on it you can really lean it over and power through the corners.

Yep I’m shopping for a road bike . Thinking Triumph street triple at the moment

[JoeMember]

Rode a street triple 2 weeks ago.what a blast. Much nicer on the back than the daytona & easier to wheelie If work stays as it is I think I’ll Get one. great bike oldgirl. PS seen one on YouTube with paddle tyres rippen up the sand dunes ………

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