Custom: Manx Norton Moderne If you wanted to capture the spirit of the original Manx Norton in a modern bike, which would you choose? Sebastien Beaupere picked the Buell XB because of its powerful air-cooled motor. Originally intending to stick that engine in a featherbed-style frame, he became convinced he couldn’t best the stock Buell item. He did swap in an original Manx seat, hand-formed aluminum bodywork and air-intak... By HFL Staff News - Mar 15 2011 -
EBR 1190RS: America, fuck yeah These are the first images of the EBR 1190RS, snapped in East Troy this morning just after the bike was finished and just before it was loaded on a truck bound for the Indy Dealer Expo. We’ll be updating this story continuously, Erik’s sending us specs and better photos as we speak. Update: more and larger photos for a total of 16. Update 2: with a race exhaust, the RS will weigh in at less ... By HFL Staff News - Feb 18 2011 -
The race-engineered Buell hardtail How do you turn a profit operating a tiny European race team that runs bikes from a tiny American manufacturer? If you’re Pegasus, you leverage your experience and expertise racing Buells into designing parts for the hundreds of thousands of brand loyalists who suddenly find themselves hung out to dry by Harley. First, they unveiled the EBR 1190RR Typhon and plan to sell conversion parts for the... By HFL Staff News - Feb 2 2011 -
Photos: Erik Buell Racing 1190 Typhon On Friday, we exclusively brought you the first photos and details of the EBR 1190 Typhon, a concept built by Pegasus, the largest Buell race team in the world. Today, we’re exclusively bringing you a high-res professional photo shoot of the bike, plus a few more details on how you can ride something similar. Winning the European Sound of Thunder championship with an EBR 1190RR-B, Germany’s ... By HFL Staff News - Nov 28 2010 -
Erik Buell’s latest patent combines exhaust, swingarm Erik Buell likes to say that the motorcycles he makes, including the EBR 1190RS debuting this winter, have only just caught up with designs he first penned 20 years ago. Here’s a rare glimpse inside some of his latest thinking, this patent for an exhaust-incorporating swingarm was just published. Somewhat confusingly titled a “Movable Exhaust System” in the patent, the concept here is re... By HFL Staff News - Nov 22 2010 -
Custom: Pegasus Race Team 1125RR “Crazy Cab” Remember the experimental Buell 1125R race bike built by Pegasus Race Team? It’s been converted into a two-seat track taxi that their champion rider, Harald Kitsch, uses to show nice young ladies what he does for a living. Riding this two-up, he was only nine seconds a lap slower than his fastest race lap at Oschersleben aboard the EBR 1190RR and on pace with S1000RR-mounted competitors. The ex... By HFL Staff News - Oct 29 2010 -
The biggest Buell race team in the world Look only at the results, and it’s be easy to assume that Pegasus Race Team is a big operation. Campaigning 1190RRs, 1125Rs and XB12s in the German Sound of Thunder and BEARS series, the team wins. A lot, including the Sound of Thunder championship this year on a bike no one else is racing, the EBR 1190RR. But that success belies a tiny operation; just a dozen or so volunteers. I just spent four... By HFL Staff News - Oct 13 2010 -
Erik Buell on the 1190RS, IBM moon suits and the future of the American sportsbike This weekend, Erik Buell and I both found ourselves in Germany, at Oschersleben’s Biketoberfest. Watching Harald Kitsch and Pegasus Race Team use their EBR 1190RR to dominate the final race of a championship they’d already won two races ago, it suddenly seemed like a good opportunity to talk to Erik about where he’s going post-Harley. He pulled himself away from the swarms (seriously) of Ger... By HFL Staff News - Oct 12 2010 -
The official line on Buell’s new street bikes Last week we showed you merchandise from Erik Buell’s record label and sponsor of his race team that promoted the Erik Buell Racing 1190RS, a forthcoming street bike from the former Harley employee. Now, we’ve got official word from EBR, confirming the that street-legal bikes are coming. Update: AMA EBR racer Geoff May talks 1190RS in below video. For some reason, EBR isn’t responding to... By HFL Staff News - Sep 13 2010 -
Buell 1190RS gets official, marketing gets officially weird This whole guerrilla slow-release-marketing-teaser-video thing that bike makers have finally caught on to might be going a bit too far. As usual, there's not a lot to go on, but what we know so far is the Erik Buell Racing 1190RS will be seen in a teaser video of some sort on Tuesday, September 14th. Plus the dude from Queensryche is involved, and is debuting his new band's hot upcoming single. No... By Grant Ray News - Sep 7 2010 -
Harley paying dealers $5,000 for every Buell sold A dealer incentive that stinks of desperation. By HFL Staff News - Oct 20 2009 -
Turns Out Harley Just Killed Buell Without Doing The Math Helluva job, Harley. By HFL Staff Industry - Oct 16 2009 -
