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Buell Lightning XB12S and Firebolt XB12R

Buell Lightning XB12S and Firebolt XB12R

If you needed an extra excuse to try a Buell motorcycle as the riding season starts again, Buell UK is offering one year’s free insurance (until 31 March 2006*) to riders over 30 years old on the radical streetfighter Lightning XB12S and the best handling motorcycle on the road** the Firebolt XB12R.

And as an added benefit, the Firebolt XB12R also comes with a £500 trade-in bonus while the Lightning XB12S receives a free classic Buell race-stripe body-kit.

Full to the brim with legendary Buell innovation, the Lightning and Firebolt models are the original XB platform stablemates; boasting the fuel-in-the-frame, oil-in-the-swingarm design that has helped Buell achieve cult status in the motorcycling world with its three design principles that make them fun and manoeuvrable – mass centralisation, frame rigidity and low un-sprung weight. Combined with the thumping 100bhp air-cooled V-twin, there are few machines on the road that can give a motorcyclist a more involving ride.