When Harley-Davidson shuttered its Buell Motorcycle Company subsidiary in October 2009, America’s greatest motorcycle pioneer of the last three decades, Erik Buell, seemed to be out of the bike-building business.Â
But anyone who is familiar with the ever-tenacious Erik Buell knew that we’d again see him and his influence in another streetbike. It was only a matter of time.
Well, that time became this weekend  … Details
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Chad Reed returns to the top of the podium in San Diego as a soaking-wet crowd of over 53,000 motorcycle racing fans withstood the rain inside Qualcomm Stadium on Saturday night for the 2011 Monster Energy AMA / FIM Supercross, the final race of 5 in Southern California this season.
In his debut season piloting his own Two Two Motorsports team, Chad Reed on his 2011 Honda CRF 450 R captured his sixth-career San Diego win in the 450 Supercross class.
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It looks like we didn’t have to wait until tomorrow to see the 2011 Erik Buell Racing 1190RS finally out in the open (and with its clothes on this time). Finally breaking cover, we can see the details of the EBR 1190RS that Erik Buell has been hiding from his fans for all this time. Called the Erik Buell Racing 1190RS Carbon Edition, the name implies what material the bike mostly consists of, as this is supposed to be the premium model that will be sold in limited quantities to help get the 1190RS homologated for racing duty  … Pictures & Details
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Erik Buell, founder of Buell Motorcycle Co., is making a comeback with a limited-production street bike that will be made in East Troy.
Tuesday, Buell said he would have the motorcycle ready this spring, for sale in small numbers.
“The first round of bikes are going to be collectibles, exotic, special-edition,” he said.
Motorcycle industry journalists have speculated that a sequel was …  More
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