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Hellbender Buell by Jens Kruper of Hillbilly Motors

By Paul Crowe

Hellbender Buell XB9R by Jen Krüper of Hillbilly Motors

If you start with a bike like a Buell XB9R which is already fairly minimal and take off what you don’t think is necessary, you end up with a pretty basic bike. If you add a turbo, you end up with something that looks like a lot of fun. Jens Krüper has a company called Hillbilly Motors over in Germany and this Buell is the result of his handiwork. Specializing in high performance and racing parts for Buells, Jens put together the Hellbender to give other builders some ideas and to show how a few of his parts can dramatically change the bike.

Horsepower with the M-Tek turbo is 145 plus you get 121 foot pounds in the torque department, the only problem I see is keeping the front end planted, but not everyone would consider that a problem.

If you like lots of power in a short, light package, you can buy many of the pieces he used from his company. He offers the short tailsection and seat, triple tree, footpegs, handgrips, sprokets, belt tensioner, in other words, you can do some of this work yourself and try to build a bike like this or, if you wait until he is done with the final assembly work and showing the bike around, you can buy it from him for 27.000 Euro or $32,000. Pretty cool.

Another photo and link below:

Hellbender Buell XB9R by Jen Kruper of Hillbilly Motors

Link: Hillbilly Motors via 2 Wheel Tuner magazine

Posted on April 10, 2007 Filed Under: Motorcycle Builders, Motorcycle Design


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Comments

  1. chappy says

    April 10, 2007 at 9:33 am

    Like most of it (super cool headlight) except for the exhaust. It looks like an afterthought.

  2. taxman says

    April 10, 2007 at 10:13 am

    if you go to their website they have many other buells that they have worked on. all of them are very nice in there own way with several different styles. i like buells but prefer the firebolt over the lightning.

  3. Sean says

    April 10, 2007 at 3:02 pm

    Nice styling, but chappy is right about the exhaust. What’s up with that? Also, where are the clutch and brake levers?

  4. darth_firebolt says

    December 11, 2007 at 4:08 pm

    there IS no front brake lever because there IS no front brake caliper. why in the hell would you have 145+ hp of turbuell with NO front brake?! the clutch cable is still on it, so the left grip is probably a twist clutch, which is also stupid.
    but oh well, they are the ones with one caliper on the rear wheel to slow them down, not me. maybe not having a front brake is their way of keeping the speeds down?

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