Buells

Ever heard of them?? Don't be surprised if you haven't, even though they are made by the biggest motorcycle company in the world ......... Harley Davidson!

Erik Buell first took a Harley Davidson engine and built a bike that handled around the historic V Twin engine.Harley Davidson watched Erik establish the company, then bought them and established the Buell dividion within Harley Davidson Motor Cycle Company.

I've owned two Buells, a 1999 X1 Lightning Racing Stripe, considered by some to be the best of the tube framed Buells.

My second Buell is a 2005 XB12s Lightning and in my opinion is even better than the X1

UKBEG

A great site to tell you everything you want to know about Buell's. I wrote the old XB Pages, and as the site has been updated, here are the old pages if you are interested? Some of it is out of date, but maybe I'll update it and incorporate it here properly one day!

UKBEG Forums

The Forums are the place to find out everything you don't want to know about them!!!

 

ECM Spy

Great Software for tuning your Buell. Gives full access to the fuel and ignition maps, error codes and lots more on your Buell.

I've helped with the research on this and strongly recommend it for anyone mildly technical who owns a buell.

Here's the tuning guide I wrote to help people understand ECM Spy and Buell fuel injection Download

For anyone who wants to try my maps, here are the EEPROM files and Fuel Map files for my bike, This is an XB12s with Micron, vented airbox 06 style and K&N. It runs great on mine and has been tested by a few others, but I cannot guarantee it will be any good on your bike. For safety it would be best to get your bike checked on a dyno after loading any new map!

 

Manuals

Buells are fairly simple bikes, hence the manuals are worth a read. Here are a few I downloaded from other sites on the web. If anyone has any objection to me posting these, please let me know and I will remove them immediately.

1997 Buell S1 Service Manual (18Mb)

2000 X1 Service Manual (60Mb)

2004 XB12s Service Manual (23Mb)

2005 Buell XB9r 12r Service Manual (23.19Mb)

2004 Retail Price List includes all part numbers (139kb)

2003 XB9 / 9R Parts Book

Dash Art

Some people have changed their dash to personalize their bikes, here are a few samples if you want to do yours!

DashArt1 201kb

DashArt2 5.45Mb

DashArt3 5.98Mb