Buell Models

This nameplate was introduced for the 2009 model year as the café-racer styled sibling to the liquid-cooled 1125 sportbike. It took the same Helicon-based 1125 platform and repackaged it with a more upright, stripped-...

The 1125CR 105 was Buell’s café-racer-styled follow-up to the 1125R, created from the same liquid-cooled 1125 Helicon platform but with a more upright, stripped-back streetfighter attitude. Buell introduced the CR as ...

Buell introduced this model for the 2008 model year as a clean-sheet sportbike that marked a major departure from the company’s earlier air-cooled Lightning and Ulysses-era machines. It was the first Buell built aroun...

Buell introduced this nameplate for the 2008 model year as part of its all-new liquid-cooled, Rotax-developed 1125-series sportbike family. It marked a major shift for Buell, moving away from the company’s long-runnin...

This entry-level Buell nameplate was introduced for the 2000 model year as the company’s small, approachable street bike and remained part of the lineup through the 2009 model year. It was developed to give Buell a lo...

This nameplate arrived for the 2002 model year as Buell’s first XB-series sportbike, launching the company’s new aluminum perimeter-frame architecture and introducing a very different approach to American performance ...

This American naked sportbike family began in the mid-1990s as a stripped-back, performance-focused alternative to the more touring-oriented machines in the lineup. The first version arrived for the 1996 model year as...

This Buell Lightning CityX nameplate was introduced for the 2005 model year as an urban-oriented member of the XB family, using Buell’s compact sportbike architecture and a more upright, city-friendly setup than the s...

Introduced for the 2006 model year, this was Buell’s longer, more comfort-oriented version of the XB12S Lightning. It used the XB platform’s distinctive sport-naked layout but stretched the riding position to give the...

This nameplate first appeared in the Buell XB range for the 2003 model year as a low-seat version of the Lightning, identified in factory materials as the XB9SL. In Buell’s catalog and service literature, the low vari...

This nameplate was introduced for the 2007 model year as a late-2006 debut in Buell’s XB family, positioned as a road-oriented streetfighter with a more aggressive, dirt-track-inspired attitude than the standard Light...

Buell introduced this nameplate for the 1997 model year as part of the company’s late-1990s air-cooled big-twin streetbike lineup. It was positioned as a more everyday, upright Buell than the company’s faired sport-to...

This motorcycle was the first production streetbike from Erik Buell’s fledgling company and one of the earliest American-made sport motorcycles to target serious road-racing performance. It grew out of Buell’s racing ...

Introduced for the 1996 model year, this was one of the bikes that defined Buell’s early identity: a compact, aggressively styled American V-twin street machine with a very different personality from the typical cruis...

This special-edition streetfighter was introduced for the 1998 model year as a higher-spec version of the S1 Lightning. It stood out immediately for its distinctive white bodywork, white-painted frame, and matching wh...

Buell’s Thunderbolt nameplate began with the S2, which arrived as a 1995 model and established the brand’s road-oriented sport-touring direction. It was Buell’s first Thunderbolt and was positioned as a distinctive, p...

The S2-T Thunderbolt was Buell’s sport-touring interpretation of the S2 Thunderbolt, introduced during the mid-1990s when the company was still defining its identity around Harley-Davidson V-twin power and unconventio...

Buell introduced this sport-touring nameplate for the 1997 model year, positioning it as a more road-oriented, full-fairing alternative within the company’s early Sportster-based lineup. It was announced alongside the...

This Buell Thunderbolt touring variant was introduced for the 1997 model year as the more luggage-friendly companion to the standard S3. It was part of Buell’s late-1990s effort to blend Harley-Davidson-based V-twin c...

Buell introduced this nameplate for the 2006 model year as part of its XB family, positioning it as an unconventional adventure-sport motorcycle rather than a conventional streetbike or dual-sport. The original versio...

The Police version of Buell’s Ulysses was a purpose-built law-enforcement derivative of the brand’s adventure-sport XB platform. It was introduced for the 2009 model year as the XB12XP, using the Ulysses concept as a ...

Introduced for the 1999 model year, this was Buell’s revised late-tube-frame Lightning streetfighter, evolving from the earlier S1 Lightning concept into a slightly more usable, more refined roadster. It kept the bran...

The XB nameplate marked a major turning point for Buell’s street motorcycles. Introduced for the 2003 model year, it replaced the earlier tube-frame Buell approach with the brand’s distinctive fuel-in-frame layout, pe...

Buell introduced this Firebolt nameplate for the 2004 model year as part of its XB family of sportbikes. It represented the fully faired, more aggressive street-fighter side of the XB range, using Buell’s compact chas...