Written by Marlon Slack
Bottpower are a Spanish custom shop that make parts for high performance twins. Seriously cool parts. Carbon fibre tanks and seats, perfectly machined triple clamps and even entire frames. Much of their work ended up on their iconic Pikes Hill motorcycle in 2017. It was fast, it handled like a dream and it was gorgeous. But it wasn?t built for the road. So Bottpower decided to build street legal version ? a gorgeous 2007 Buell Ulysses they?ve dubbed the XR1R.

We?ll slow it down for a moment in case you?re new to the party and haven?t heard of Buell before. Buell was an offshoot of Harley Davidson that made American twins that actually handled. Most ran up spec versions of Sportster engines with twin spark heads, flash cams and light flywheels.  They also had an innovative chassis design, running fuel in the frame and oil in the swingarm. People loved them. Not everyone. But a certain kind of person.
Today, years after the company was wound up Buell still have their devotees. Nobody more so than the Bottpower, who have made it their life mission to make Buell?s incredible handling twins even better ? as exhibited by this XR1R. ?We?ve used many cool parts that we?ve been using for a while,? Bottpower?s David Sanchez states, ?but also many new items which we?ve tested in a constant quest to improve quality and performance?.

The donor for the XR1R was the Ulysses, the adventure touring model of the Buell line up. Straight away the team swapped...