The American V-Twin brings thoughts of open straight roads and a very specific sound. Potato, Potato, Potato. At one point a brilliant motorcycle designer thought that there was a way for the American V-Twin to be known for something else. Sublime handling. Erik Buell started producing bikes and very quickly developed a reputation for amazing…
Update 1.29.19: This bike has SOLD! Congratulations to buyer and seller! -dc This 2014 Buell 1190RX has been stored properly, ridden rarely, modded carefully and babied by one owner. It has a tasteful collection of carbon fiber accent pieces and a Dean Adams exhaust with the accompanying ECU tune, but is otherwise as it rolled…
There really isn’t a way to describe quite how sad it is that Buell went the way of the dinosaur, but here we sit, with just a few examples of some truly American, truly brawny world-beating machines kicking around the Internet to remind of what once was. The wild, slightly redneck, fully awesome creations of…
This bike is why I get frustrated by Harley’s modern offerings. I’m not suggesting a sportbike is the answer to their financial woes, but trading on outdated “Bad to the Bone” Sons of Anarchy stereotypes clearly isn’t working. Upstart [irony!] Indian already beat them to the punch with their new FTR1200, exactly the bike I’ve…
The Buell M2 Cyclone was their more vanilla model, a little heavier than the Lightning and without Thunderbolt touring gear. This insider hotrod was featured in Cycle World and has an even torquier engine, Euro gearing and later bodywork. 1998 Buell M2 Cyclone for sale on eBay The big Sporty engine aboard the M2 was…
Patriotic bike enthusiast, racer, and entrepreneur Erik Buell had a dream: to make an all-American sportbike. That would have been nearly impossible for a small-timer to do if he’d insisted on creating an engine from scratch to power the bike, so Buell took a proven, iconic American motor and stuck it into his new motorcycle.…
Note: Some of the pictures in this post are from the web not from the listed ebay auction. 2012 EBR 1190RS on ebay Ahh…what could have been….the EBR 1190RS, “built to prove an american sportbike could compete with the best in the world”. Sure we have heard that line before but from a technical…
The announcement earlier this month that EBR/Erik Buell Racing is discontinuing operations is pretty sad. EBR was probably the best “all-american-sportbike” effort we have seen in quite a while. While others such as Roehr, Fischer, Motoczysz came and went in a blink, EBR lasted over 6 years and were effectively a continuation of the concepts…