Buell 1125R RMR Daytona SportBike

Buell 1125R RMR Daytona SportBike

For an avid motorcyclist, one of the biggest question marks around Daytona AMA Pro Road Racing Sportbike class is what it feels like to ride one of these "sport bikes" in the race full adjustment of the factory. Recently, the motorcycle, USA given that opportunity, testing the Geico Powersports Richie Morris Racing Buell 1125R racebike around Road America road course of 4 miles in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.

In our comparison of Daytona Sportbike street bike was found that, in fact, a 2009 production Buell 1125R has a performance advantage compared to its class rivals - including the 2009 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R and Aprilia RSV1000R. But how does it compare with the bike of values ​​that is based out of? To our surprise, not so different.

In order to create better parity in the class, the rules of the DSB would not allow a lot of engine Modifications. Instead the set of rules gives more scope for changes to the chassis. So many of the changes the team focus on that area.

Most obvious is the goal naked in the aluminum frame and swingarm for enhanced racebike, which also allows a conventional chain / sprocket end rather than the stock belt. It is also surprising how different the bike race is plastics. The lower fairing and tail section of the 1125R racebike closer look at a European or Japanese sport bike, until the eye picks up these two huge balls of air on both sides and their upper fairing large, that remind all Buell.

Erik Buell Racing 1190RS Debuts at Indy

Erik Buell Racing 1190RS Debuts at Indy

Erik Buell has been bothering street legal version of its superbike 1190 per week. Now, the American creator and his second company sportbike sportbike of the same name, Erik Buell Racing, presented the EBR 1190RS Dealer Expo in Indy.

Promised in September 2010, the 1190RS is a street-legal evolution of the company racebike 1190RR. Family Buell components remain in place, as the front rotor ZTL and linkage-less rear suspension (both front shock fork and Ohlins supply units). The main differences between the RS and RR are the matrix of stacked headlights, turn signals mounted on the windshield mount taillight long.

The Code also makes use of dual exhaust right side, with the previous Buell, of course, known for their particular systems of low-lying escape. The 1190RS on display at the Indy sport a "Carbon Edition" moniker in the tail section. It is a fitting name as the new model very runny with the material comprising the featherweight body, tank and muffler.

Compared to last Erik Buell, the street-legal Superbike, the 1190RS is bigger and thinner. The larger the known double Rotax, bored with his previous 1125 size for now 1190cc displacement (Read more about the engine improvements in our Buell 1190RR 1190RR Superbike See First.) Thinner is the width of the visually RS sports a trimmer profile with the new front of the radiator, rather than wide the 1125R side mount units. The thinner upper fairing with stacked headlights, rather than the more conventional vertical set in 1125.