Saturday Night Specials: Tube Frame Buell Customs

Eric Buell had a real moment of genius when he conceived the idea of Buell Motorcycles some 25+ years ago. powerful V twins in a light well handling package. As exciting and innovative as the XB and 1125 series bikes are, there is still something raw and beautiful about the Tube Frame bikes that keeps my attention a little bit more. Something about a Sportster engine crammed in that pipe work. Gives it that classic race bike/muscle bike feel that you miss with an aluminum twin spare that just gets in the way of everything. Here are some interesting examples of some tube framers with a little imagination thrown at them.

 M1 Cyclone by Franz Garage, Italy.

Cafe Style with XB running gear.

R&R Customizing, Germany. Aluminum X1 Lightning.

Bottpower renderings. XB powered and sprung XR1 and a Panhead powered, XB suspended back bone framed racer based off their XR1 concept.