Comments on: Buell Rumblings: Backers Planning Buyout?

By: MCBill

MCBill — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:50:36 +0000

The real question will be “who will build the parts”… Suppliers? Or will Buell make their own frames, motors, etc. It would seem doubtful Buell would get new designs and manufacturing in place with investor money in this market.

And, of course, there is the issue of Harleys’ trademark/patents on everything Buell, as pointed out earlier.

Nonetheless, Erick started Buell from scratch the first time and is the only guy around I know of who could do it again, something I was instantly aware of when I met him years ago.

By: RealityCheck

RealityCheck — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:17:50 +0000

I’m glad to see H-D struggle. They’ve been price gouging for years. It’s about time they felt the pain. Too bad Buell is falling. I’d rather see Buell succeed and H-D stumble, but if it’s both than I’ll take that.

By: Bryan Carter

Bryan Carter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:46:33 +0000

@ ServerMac1 – I’m going to step out in good faith and believe you are not a “spammer” or “bot” by saying most of the slow speeds you will experience on iwblogger are from the amount of traffic or usage being requested of the site. However, from time-to-time slow speeds are the result of maintenance and backup. We try to perform these actions late at night when fewer individuals are using the site. As far as our servers, we’d love to upgrade them if you are willing to contribute to the process.

By: ServerMac1

ServerMac1 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:40:48 +0000

At times, your site blog seems to load very slow. Is it because your site is busy or do you need to upgrade your server?

~ServerMac1

By: Bryan Carter

Bryan Carter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:06:48 +0000

I know there are 3rd party apps that do it. I use one called Seesmic Desktop for Mac. I’ve been working on getting http://iwblogger.com working with Facebook and Twitter, but it’s infrequent—random at best. It doesn’t catch everything.

By: Marilyn Elmore

Marilyn Elmore — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:04:54 +0000

I’ve got to figure out how to do that….I think it would be great to get FB and Twitter talking, can that be done?

By: John K. Endrizzi

John K. Endrizzi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:33:08 +0000

I would stand in line to help Eric and Co. retake the reins. Where do I sign ?

By: Bryan Carter

Bryan Carter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:28:35 +0000

Agreed. Hate I missed the Tweets, I couldn’t sign in — got the whale. So next time, you all need to post comments here or on the blog. ;)

By: Marilyn Elmore

Marilyn Elmore — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:27:53 +0000

we were discussing this on tweeter yesterday. Most hopefull the backers of the community will have enough money to help Eric realize his dreams, build a better motorcycle…do more with racing, and have one hell of a great street MC too!
All of us feel Buell deserves better than the step-child treatment he got.