Chad Reed passes both Ken Roczen and James Stewart for his first win since 2012.
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There really aren’t words to accurately describe how big Chad Reed’s win was on Saturday night—but rest assured people will be talking about it for a long time. Let’s let Chad have a turn with Monday Conversation, logged right after he stepped down from the podium. Oh, and sorry, JT$!
Racer X: Take us through it from the start.
Chad Reed: The start, we did something a little bit different on the lockdown [start device on the front fork], changed that a little bit and just tried to trust it. Honestly last year the bike was very difficult to start on. And I think I just got gun shy. And then all off-season I’ve been ripping starts and I’m like, wow, feeling good and confident … More
Erik Buell’s motorcycle assembly line has been running about a month, and already Buell is worried about not having enough space as he ramps up production and kicks his engineering efforts into overdrive.
“These are wonderful problems to have,” Buell says as he walks through the plant where the first Erik Buell Racing production motorcycles are being assembled for delivery in February.
The plant’s layout was designed by a former automotive industry engineer who was fed up with big companies and, like Buell, wanted to challenge the status quo … More