Kind of surprised not one person has pointed out that it's a hydraulic clutch. It sounds like the clutch was dragging. Could have been the full synthetic oil they used that the clutch disks didn't like. Could have been the clutch mastercylinder needed to be bled. I wouldn't hold an 1125 against the harley xbs as they are completely separate from harley. Yes they were sold by harley, but Eric Buell asked harley to design a new motor for the 1125 and they told him he could have the vrod motor. He couldn't come up with the reduced weight and ended up going with the rotax. Very surprised your friends dealership couldn't fix the issue, but from the sounds of it it was about the time that they were fire selling them (cheap quick sales).
@@ryanshanahan91 Clutch problem sounds right to me. This was a used bike so not sure on the history or prior ownership. They probably got it cheap enough that they didn't want to waste money on fixing it.
Definitely sounds like an issue with the hydraulic clutch. The OEM is known to leak and not be the best so an Oberon rebuildable unit is the fix. The voltage warning was likely your Voltage regulator was fried from overcharging, the 2009 Buell 1125 had has an increased electric power output over the 08 and will fry the VR unless the Rotor is taken off and a small hole machined in to provide oil cooling. HD didnt want to properly recall these items when the bikes were new and used a harness too reduce power instead. then they shut Buell down so the 2010 model with all the reliability improvements never made it to market. Clean slate bike will have some teething but they're great bikes when the above are addressed.
old school xb12Ss, have had it 3 months, done a oil change a new front and rear tire, had an exhaust issue, last owner changed over to a D&D but never remover all that went with it an left the white wire hooked up witch comes out of the ECM an controls timing in relation to what the muffler is doing, So with that solved put 2'' extend foot pegs and it is fun and fast, mine is a 2006 and anything built after is when the crunch went into play and the 1125 was going to be the saving of buell but it never happened, we will see what comes out in 25......maybe just spare part bikes an the company will take all to deposit money and run, time is the best storyteller
Not sure I'd ever want a hydraulic clutch on a bike. Worked at Aprilia shop and witnessed how much fun those are to mess with. How about a tuber m2/s1?
1125 was the first rotax motor buell used. They had some issues compared to the HD motors, mostly charging issues or complete motor failures...1190 rotax im sure fixed most issues the 1125 had...kickstand sensor maybe, but slamming into gear on its own is weird as it must have had transmission issues as well
Im absolutely impressed with your art of story telling - but after 8 minutes, i got to book . . .- btw: I would have liked to give it more time, but not sure focus was on fixing the bike or is on your mishaps with it - If you are into Motorcycle technical talk, please reply, and I will be back to subscribe to your channel and will check you out further -
@@ClassicRider Thanks for the kind words. Since this was an old story about a test ride gone bad I wanted to share how things can go wrong sometimes out the blue. Lesson is that you should always be prepared. I was curious about what went wrong so I asked for people to try figuring it out.
@@BehindTheEnthusiast Well Im not one to competently comment on the bike being an Buell 1125CR; but can offer a best guess or two. My bikes( his and hers ) are vintage DOHC CB750's. They are carbureted and do not have an ECU. From your description of no start in Neutral but start and lunge forward with the clutch pulled - im curios how it could have been started in neutral in the first place and how it would be ridable without griding gears as you were in the friction zone itself when the clutch is fully engaged. That needs correction. As your 1125CR has intelligence, that is the first place I would look perhaps for a new firmware update. I feel Neutral is not known by all the exception handlers in the code - As far as riding that much horsepower ( 145 Bhp) on a bike that is under 400lb wet, is better for you than for me. My CB750's are 98 bhp tuned, and 600lb and ride comfortable at 90 mph abd feel like rocket sleds as it is. On a track like Mugello, you can use that 145 hp at 400 lb easily on its long straight. But that world for me wont go farther than in MotoSim. The Stall Out when coming to a stop on a carbureted machine like my CB750's is if the idle circuits are too lean, or in fact the fuel bowls are empty from running at high RPMs just before hand. The 1125Cr could be too lean on its idle if hearing misses, as most bikes are tuned lean these days - Hence in the ECU firmware update look for Idle mixture and also Clutch sensing I would figure, and perhaps where is neutral which might not be important once the clutch works correctly. About kind words - my wife says I have to watch out as sometimes I can come across terse with out meaning to -
@@haydenbrannan7187 Not really - my focus was not on ownership, nor when the vid was made. It was applicable to what I heard as far as bike problems for the first 8 minutes. If you have the same bike and or similar anomalies, and have an ECU, this might apply to you - btw: plz note other comments are only a few hours old -
@@ClassicRider if you listened to the first 8 minutes you heard him say that it wasn't his bike and it happened years ago.... so you selectively heard what ;you wanted to I guess. I never said the video was old, it isn't. I am not talking about when it was posted, rather what the guy in the video said when it started. Namely that "this happened years ago on a test ride" part at the very beginning of the video. It just seems like you are completely ignoring everything except 1 tiny part of the video where he actually talks about what the bike was doing. Just didn't understand how you made it to him stating the problems without hearing him say it was a test ride and years ago bc he does it multiple times. Doesn't matter when the comments were made I'm not sure what relevance that has...
Kind of surprised not one person has pointed out that it's a hydraulic clutch. It sounds like the clutch was dragging. Could have been the full synthetic oil they used that the clutch disks didn't like. Could have been the clutch mastercylinder needed to be bled.
I wouldn't hold an 1125 against the harley xbs as they are completely separate from harley. Yes they were sold by harley, but Eric Buell asked harley to design a new motor for the 1125 and they told him he could have the vrod motor. He couldn't come up with the reduced weight and ended up going with the rotax.
Very surprised your friends dealership couldn't fix the issue, but from the sounds of it it was about the time that they were fire selling them (cheap quick sales).
@@ryanshanahan91 Clutch problem sounds right to me. This was a used bike so not sure on the history or prior ownership. They probably got it cheap enough that they didn't want to waste money on fixing it.
i believe all the 1125s had charging issues. I think it was a faulty connector to the rectifier.
Definitely sounds like an issue with the hydraulic clutch. The OEM is known to leak and not be the best so an Oberon rebuildable unit is the fix. The voltage warning was likely your Voltage regulator was fried from overcharging, the 2009 Buell 1125 had has an increased electric power output over the 08 and will fry the VR unless the Rotor is taken off and a small hole machined in to provide oil cooling. HD didnt want to properly recall these items when the bikes were new and used a harness too reduce power instead. then they shut Buell down so the 2010 model with all the reliability improvements never made it to market. Clean slate bike will have some teething but they're great bikes when the above are addressed.
old school xb12Ss, have had it 3 months, done a oil change a new front and rear tire, had an exhaust issue, last owner changed over to a D&D but never remover all that went with it an left the white wire hooked up witch comes out of the ECM an controls timing in relation to what the muffler is doing, So with that solved put 2'' extend foot pegs and it is fun and fast, mine is a 2006 and anything built after is when the crunch went into play and the 1125 was going to be the saving of buell but it never happened, we will see what comes out in 25......maybe just spare part bikes an the company will take all to deposit money and run, time is the best storyteller
Not sure I'd ever want a hydraulic clutch on a bike. Worked at Aprilia shop and witnessed how much fun those are to mess with. How about a tuber m2/s1?
@@gmc-roots-blown273 Not a fan of them either. Much prefer cable.
1125 was the first rotax motor buell used. They had some issues compared to the HD motors, mostly charging issues or complete motor failures...1190 rotax im sure fixed most issues the 1125 had...kickstand sensor maybe, but slamming into gear on its own is weird as it must have had transmission issues as well
Im absolutely impressed with your art of story telling - but after 8 minutes, i got to book . . .- btw: I would have liked to give it more time, but not sure focus was on fixing the bike or is on your mishaps with it - If you are into Motorcycle technical talk, please reply, and I will be back to subscribe to your channel and will check you out further -
@@ClassicRider Thanks for the kind words. Since this was an old story about a test ride gone bad I wanted to share how things can go wrong sometimes out the blue. Lesson is that you should always be prepared. I was curious about what went wrong so I asked for people to try figuring it out.
@@BehindTheEnthusiast Well Im not one to competently comment on the bike being an Buell 1125CR; but can offer a best guess or two.
My bikes( his and hers ) are vintage DOHC CB750's. They are carbureted and do not have an ECU. From your description of no start in Neutral but start and lunge forward with the clutch pulled - im curios how it could have been started in neutral in the first place and how it would be ridable without griding gears as you were in the friction zone itself when the clutch is fully engaged. That needs correction. As your 1125CR has intelligence, that is the first place I would look perhaps for a new firmware update. I feel Neutral is not known by all the exception handlers in the code -
As far as riding that much horsepower ( 145 Bhp) on a bike that is under 400lb wet, is better for you than for me. My CB750's are 98 bhp tuned, and 600lb and ride comfortable at 90 mph abd feel like rocket sleds as it is.
On a track like Mugello, you can use that 145 hp at 400 lb easily on its long straight. But that world for me wont go farther than in MotoSim.
The Stall Out when coming to a stop on a carbureted machine like my CB750's is if the idle circuits are too lean, or in fact the fuel bowls are empty from running at high RPMs just before hand.
The 1125Cr could be too lean on its idle if hearing misses, as most bikes are tuned lean these days -
Hence in the ECU firmware update look for Idle mixture and also Clutch sensing I would figure, and perhaps where is neutral which might not be important once the clutch works correctly.
About kind words - my wife says I have to watch out as sometimes I can come across terse with out meaning to -
@@ClassicRider you do realize that it's not his bike right? nor was it recent... sounds like 6 years ago if I remember what he said in the beginning
@@haydenbrannan7187 Not really - my focus was not on ownership, nor when the vid was made. It was applicable to what I heard as far as bike problems for the first 8 minutes. If you have the same bike and or similar anomalies, and have an ECU, this might apply to you -
btw: plz note other comments are only a few hours old -
@@ClassicRider if you listened to the first 8 minutes you heard him say that it wasn't his bike and it happened years ago.... so you selectively heard what ;you wanted to I guess. I never said the video was old, it isn't. I am not talking about when it was posted, rather what the guy in the video said when it started. Namely that "this happened years ago on a test ride" part at the very beginning of the video. It just seems like you are completely ignoring everything except 1 tiny part of the video where he actually talks about what the bike was doing. Just didn't understand how you made it to him stating the problems without hearing him say it was a test ride and years ago bc he does it multiple times. Doesn't matter when the comments were made I'm not sure what relevance that has...
the problem is the name on the gas tank
What?