The Ulysses is a rare Buell - official production numbers below:
XB12X Ulysses (Adventure Sport. 7432 built)
XB12XP Ulysses (Police Model. 137 built.)
XB12XT Ulysses (Adventure Sport Touring. 1911 built)
The CityX: XB9SX aka "XB9CX" Lightning CityX (City Cross Urban Assault Bike. 9632 built.)
It was possible to kill a Blast, just fall over and wham the gear shiftier. I bought a Riders Edge Blast from North Carolina. Had a transmission problem, all of them listed on eBay did. looked like a fun winter project. Wound up splitting the cases to fix the shift drum and shift forks. Bigish job. The engine also had signs of having been run out of oil so I also replaced cams, cam followers, piston, rings and barrel. The exhaust valve seat also was coming loose and was just a few more miles until it would have failed. It's back together, runs okay now...but, it's a blast, built just about as cheap as they could.
Remove the engine from a Blast here's what's left:
Here's what comes off. Lots connected to the engine:
Engine on the bench:
Cases split, Brother B's paw on the left holding the transmission's gear clusters:
This is the shift drum. As you can see the gear shift lever got whammed and deformed the shift fork grove pealing up metal from the drum.
The drum consists of a solid drum and an outer sleeve pinned to the drum. It's the outer sleeve that got deformed.
This is what the deformation did to the shift fork, ouch.
All back together. Happy thumper now. All sorts of new parts installed. I paid more for the repair parts than I did for the bike.
It lives happy thereafter...
- BB