Erik Buell is right: Everything would have been different if Buell Motorcycles had built this bike first, as he intended, instead of the quirky 1125R that parent company Harley-Davidson demanded in 2007. Motor Company management feared competing with Japanese and European manufacturers head-on, so rather than green-light a pure superbike they commissioned the offbeat 1125R. That bike’s failure to connect beyond a small group of outlier enthusiasts was the beginning of the end for the Buell brand.
Erik always believed he had the engineering and technological prowess to take on foreign competition. Now liberated from Harley and   … Pictures & More
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