Anyone know what bike this sub frame came from?

Looks like one of  the Buell models; not sure which one though...

yea i would guess buell as well.

or possibly some ducatti, but doubt it.

Thats Jim Knopfs bike... he posts here often.

I think its a Buell tail

I guess it could be a buell blast (older model?) The newer models (xB9) look like frames. not cast solid sides.

Buell X1 lightining 98 - 04 os some like that.
BTW That tail fitted on the rails of the gs hacked off in the middle looks a little off IMHO. But ... different tails for differenk forks ...
Cool.
Buddha.

Definitely off an X1. There was also someone else who installed one of them on their gs within the past year or so. You'd have to search for it though. The Buells frame comes back much farther, which is why that subframe is so short, that's one of the few models I really don't care for. I like the cyclone version much more, which I believe is pretty much the same frame, but the back is just covered in plastic that's a similar shape.


Love the painted headers though.

I think that subframe is an Eiffel.

Quote from: the mole on November 09, 2009, 10:51:42 AM


I think that subframe is an Eiffel.

A what??

Quote from: tt_four on November 09, 2009, 07:25:14 AM
Definitely off an X1. There was also someone else who installed one of them on their gs within the past year or so. You'd have to search for it though. The Buells frame comes back much farther, which is why that subframe is so short, that's one of the few models I really don't care for. I like the cyclone version much more, which I believe is pretty much the same frame, but the back is just covered in plastic that's a similar shape.

Dude thats a sweet looking bike. alot of the buells are, how come theyre going bye bye?

Quote from: gregvhen on November 09, 2009, 08:13:17 PM


Dude thats a sweet looking bike. alot of the buells are, how come theyre going bye bye?

Well, first of all is the fact that harley owns them, and the have a 1 track mind. Even if they are awesome bikes, they're not fat heavy shiny cruisers, so they don't care.

The other reason, is a lot of motorcyclist also have the same mindset, and they either wait a fat heavy shiny cruiser, or they want the lightest, fastest, shiniest sportbike to show their friends.

The naked bike market is also virtually non-existent in this country too, so it's tough for an american company to survive when their target audience doesn't even exist in their own country. A European company should pick Erik Buell up and go crazy. If Buell could've held out until spring when I was ready to pick up another bike before they started selling their XB9SX for $4k, I'd grab one without a second thought.

There's a whole giant month old thread about this though, so i'll stop