Purpose Built For The Track: 2007 Buell XBRR
It was purpose built for the track but all it is doing is hanging out on a wall. You are looking at a zero mile 2007 Buell XBRR that has been holding down decoration duty. If you wanted to go racing on an American made motorcycle with a big air cooled V twin, this was as good as it got. Approximately 50 were hand built and I can’t imagine there are many left over with not a wheel turned like this one. Fast forward a few years from 2007 and the dream had turned into a nightmare for Buell. The rocket scientists at Harley Davidson had killed the Buell brand and sold off MV Agusta for nothing, back to the same people they payed millions to a few years earlier. The XBRR would end up being the pinnacle for Erik Buell. Or would it?
Take a look at what the XBRR has evolved into at the new EBR (Erik Buell Racing).
I wasn’t kidding, it is up on a wall. Original MSRP on these bikes was a hefty $30,000. The seller is starting his auction at $21,000 with no takers as of this writing. As a track bike, I have to wonder if its’ time came and went with the new EBR 1190RS out there.
The info please:
Brand new, never started,Rare, Rare motorcycle. Only 50 of thiese bikes where scheduled to be built for racing only, but I believe they actually built 56. I’m pretty sure 25 went overseas and the rest are here in the states.Not sure how many were raced or still survive but I’ll bet there isn’t many new ones out there This is absolutely the fastest air cooled bike Harley ever produced or ever will. This will truely be one of the hardest bikes for collectors to find in the future. This one is number 35 of 50.Recomend this bike to collectors only since it has never been started ,but if you buy it you can do as you wish. Have a used one [number 20] but it won’t be for sale if this one sells.I’m keeping one. I can tell you these bikes are a monster and a blast to ride. Have the original brochures and numerous articles,tuning disk,and other info that goes with it. Race stand included . Retail price when new was around $30,000.By the way , the AMA museum doesn’t even have one of these bikes.
And this is probably the reason to be interested in a bike like this. To buy a piece of history that we will not see again unless Erik Buell can wrestle his name back from Harley Davdison. If you were wondering, even the race bikes have the fuel in the frame and oil in the swing arm.
Crank it up.
Ian
Before you slam poor little me: yes, I know there was the 1125R that would be considered the pinnacle of Buell performance before HD shut them down. My tiny brain just didn’t remember that due to the long hours here at RSBFS.
I remember the Daytona 200 when this bike debuted to great hype, and the promise of beating all of the four cylinder bikes.
Every single Buell broke and DNF’d. ‘Nuff said.
I was there at the Buell pit a year later when the 1125R got into first place, came in for fuel and caught fire. The Japanese pro bike riders made the same comment then as they did when the XBRR DNF’d… “it is only a matter of short time before a Buell is at the front”. The next year Danny Eslick ate the Daytona series. Now the 1190R and RS is out on the podium. ALL of them came from the superb data collected from the XBRR… says Buell and every team rider.