It's all out there in Cyberspace somewhere if anyon'es sad enough to track it down. If you do - I'm sad enough to want to know what you unearth on the ancient history of CyberBEG

It isn't difficult to see the remains of those days if you look in the right places.

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go on then...

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ukbeg.com

Was it under a different web address back before then?

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Buell S1
Buell S3 (Topless for now)
Buell XB12S
Piaggio X8 400ie
Yamaha XTZ750 Super Tenere (x2)
Suzuki GSXR750WR
BSA B441VS
FJR1300

Yes, as above in my earlier post. However, the very early 1st generation forums were hosted by a 3rd party so they will not be traceable in the web archive since I have not the faintest idea what the URL's were. There is plenty of the Snitz 2000 asp based forum in the archives though, that was part of the 2nd generation website until we migrated to the 3rd generation php based forum we hosted at bike-pix.com (there are technical reasons why that happened that i won't bore you with, bike-pix.com was also a ukbeg owned domain).

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Steve , who were the early members just for interest ?
CJ + Jane , you , Maz ....

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Feros Ferio

The first three that I know of were CJ+JJ, Dusty (number 001) and me (number 003). I do not know who number 002 was unless of course it was CJ himself! I'm afraid CJ would have to look back through his files to answer that question really. Sorry.

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no worries Steve, would be interesting to see the first of the few

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You're welcome.

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Squiz (formerly of this Parish) was a very early member too, wasn't he

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He is on my list of early "virtual members" who are missing in action, Adam.

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

FYI 2:
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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Chris & Jane Jessop
Founders of UKBEG April 1998

www.ukbuellgroup.co.uk

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.

Love the new avatar.

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Good in straight lines
2001 X1 "The Tart's Handbag"
2001 FZS1000 "The Fridge"

Ain't nostalgia great 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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I'm a Hornithologist, I get excited by exotic birds.........

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Valencia Orange XB12Scg - serviced by Maz 2018
Black P3 Blast - serviced by Maz and fixed by Maz in 2019