Comments on: Magpul Ronin Buell 1125R with Girder Suspension

By: kenpstok

kenpstok — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:58:35 +0000

@anon Same thing I was thinking. Where is the rail system? Is there a tactical purpose for this bike or just taking advantage of the best polymer company in a long time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Fred M.

Fred M. — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:19:09 +0000

@Al

“Because board-level management was afraid Polaris or whoever-buyer would make a success of Buell and then they would look stupid(er than they do now.)”

And to them, that would be worse than laying off 180 Americans a week before Christmas during a recession. That speaks volumes about the “patriotism,” character, and ethics of the Harley Davidson Board of Directors.

By: lostboy1

lostboy1 — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:09:01 +0000

that is HAWT…best looking Buell ever, Buell had some fantastic ideas that really worked.

By: Paulinator

Paulinator — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:31:16 +0000

Please correct me if I got this wrong…Buell had (as reported here) a significant presence in Europe and growth potential with a brand new model. So H-D killed a brand that had self-sustaining export markets (?) and then increased thier bottom-line by importing Pakistani leathers (also reported here) to sell to the patriotic Americans that they just made redundant?

…and how many of those Pakistani garment workers are Taliban supporters?

hhhm?

By: FREEMAN

FREEMAN — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:32:01 +0000

@ Thom: yeah, that’s a great way to look at things.

Regardless of whatever your interpretation of HD’s business practice, it’s a shame that another motorcycle manufacturer, American or not, is out of business. With your great idea, that’s more people (roughly 10,000 employees) without jobs collecting unemployment and a worse economy for everybody.