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Jill Brown
 Post subject: Re: Am I the only one?
PostPosted: 08 Nov 2009 22:08 
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Ain't nostalgia great :D When UKBEG was in black and white.

Appreciate all the work gone into it over the years and am amazed at the staying power of the die hards. Can't imagine the miles CJ has done over the years.



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PostPosted: 09 Nov 2009 18:06 
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Thanks Chris, I always wondered who #1002 was! I can't believe it was so long ago now. Was ukbeg in 78rpm then?

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FYI: 1002 was a Mr Cooke. Out of interest, 1110 was :maz: and 1166 was Steve (Ursus).

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A brief history of the UK Buell Enthusiasts Group

Chris Jessop - September 2007

My wife Jane and I placed our order for a Billet Silver S1 Lightning in November 1996, following the launch of Buells in the UK at the NEC motorcycle show that month.

We finally took delivery on the 20th May 1997. It was well worth the wait! Then, as now, Buells look like nothing else and perform like nothing else. While on holiday in the USA during October 1997 we visited the Buell factory in East Troy, Wisconsin, and were lucky enough to be able to tour the plants production area and meet Erik Buell himself. In March 1998 we formed the UK Buell Enthusiasts Group.

The idea behind UKBEG was to create something as unique as the motorcycles themselves. It was run along the lines of a normal club but we produced a bimonthly newsletter called American Thunder. Created and printed at home, it soon became very successful and finished up looking more like a magazine than a simple newsletter. We also organised a few meets and runs around the UK with varying degrees of success.

Membership of UKBEG reached 213 in April 2000, which at that time was approximately 35% of all UK Buell owners. Unfortunately we became victims of own success. The time required to run UKBEG as a club and produce American Thunder was becoming too much and the costs were hard to manage. In April 2000 we decided to close down UKBEG as a club and just use a web site, http://www.ukbeg.com, which club member Steve Shakeshaft had created.

The web site has survived many ups and downs during the past 8 years but remains true to its main purpose, which is to share the enthusiasm for these unique American motorcycles. Since 2003 our main involvement with the web site has been to organise many of the UKBEG events.

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Well, Tim Holloway (RedStar) got fed up, CarlK went walkabout but still pops in on occasion, Squiz disappeared, Roy (forget his name) sold out quite early on. Ben was an early guy who is still around, yes. Happy Jack told me a couple of months ago that he'd finally sold his S1, shame really. I think G1 was a very early virtual member. Roger with the solar powered M2, was another early one who bailed out soon after.

Blimey, I haven't heard from HJ in... ooh, a while now. Sorry that he's sold the Duracell. Gi sold his carbon X1 a long time ago but kept in touch until his friend died riding along the Embankment when a ped walked out in front of him.

Roger... Diggsy and I were talking about him recently, after I posted a pic taken the morning after the first Sproutfest. 8-)

Love the new avatar. :lol:
Thanks Norm. HJ mailed me a few weeks ago announcing his new band. I gave him a call and had a good chat with the old b*gger. Very decent chap, HJ. The 1st Sproutfest.......... Jeez.........

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The 1st Sproutfest.......... Jeez.........

I'm still finding glitter from the second! :lol:

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The 1st Sproutfest.......... Jeez.........

I'm still finding glitter from the second! :lol:


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PostPosted: 09 Nov 2009 22:19 
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I still have all my hard copies of American Thunder magazine, I been around UKBEG, more years than I care to remember,talking never used to be my best point, think it was Alison at the Ace, many moons ago who put me back in touch with UKBEG.

What people fail to mention its not just Buell employees, most of them, form East Troy, so it is a Town which has been made redundant.

Buell was destined to die as soon as Harley got it's grubby hands on it.
Rationalising here and there, bringing out models before ensuring the brand was reliable and strong enough to take on, or at least compete with the market,
Harley likes plastic not carbon, rough cast intsead of smooth finish and that maintained the tractor appear harley likes to encourage its customers as being the norm, unfortuantely harley has tried to make Buell a lifestyle rather than being a shytt hot motorcyle.
Suprised the marketing people haven't got a" I hate Harley T" out for Buell riders to buy. :lol:
might actually see my S1 and S2 increase in value :rofl:

My old membership no was 1087, still got me card, looks like I might have been in before Maz :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Am I the only one?
PostPosted: 11 Nov 2009 21:19 
Tell yer what folks - who clearly remembers the background music on the first UKBEG forum? :D ;)
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Oh, golly, so it was. Annoyingly played on a monophonic .mid file, IIRC. :lol:

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PostPosted: 11 Nov 2009 22:26 
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PostPosted: 12 Nov 2009 11:33 
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"especially concerned for those who think they buying are a new sports bike for £5k and end up buying a Buell".

Could not agree with you more, thank god for the dealer allowing test rides. The 1125 I rode was horrendous. If it's not a bike you would have considered buying before the amazing 'discounts', then I feel it could end in tears. :shock:


Subjective statement, I rode the same bike and it was superb.
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PostPosted: 12 Nov 2009 18:53 
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Only till it was changed to Long and winding Road which somehow seemed more apt. I could never get the java script noise "on and off" buttons to work across the various browser platforms (Netscape, IE, Opera, Safari (I think)) so I gave up and the website went silent (thank god).

Actually, to be pedantically, anally, absolutely 100% correct, the forum itself was always silent, as it was on a 3rd party server (I never had fancy php scripts then, learning html was enough) and we never had a way to customise it except for the background colour/image. IIRC, only the home page actually had noise, and it was in black and white.

Oh, the joy of 33kb/sec modems too, when uploading html files. :lol:

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PostPosted: 23 Jan 2011 14:30 
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Cant remember my membership number :cry:
but it was low....

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