Recall Register

Buell M2 Cyclone: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 10 recall campaigns for the Buell M2 Cyclone, model years 1997 to 2000. NHTSA has 10 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 4 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19978
  2. 19987
  3. 19995
  4. 20001
Buell M2 Cyclone: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 Buell M2 Cyclone NHTSA page13120%6,219
1999 Buell M2 Cyclone53120%40,528
1998 Buell M2 Cyclone700%59,060
1997 Buell M2 Cyclone84160%59,565

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

11 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Buell M2 Cyclone: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Suspension636.47
Service Brakes, Hydraulic181.82
Exterior Lighting90.91
Power Train90.91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Buell M2 Cyclone, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 7 campaigns.
Complaints about the Buell M2 Cyclone, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Buell: all 11 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Buell M2 Cyclone: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/buell/m2-cyclone/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
BUELL MOTORCYCLE CO.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Buell M2 Cyclone model years have the most recall campaigns?
1997 with 8, 1998 with 7, 1999 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Buell M2 Cyclone model year has the most complaints?
The 1997 model year, with 4 of the 10 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Buell M2 Cyclone name?
Suspension: 7 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 2 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Buell M2 Cyclone?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.