Cycle World: EBR 1190RS - Exclusive First Ride

[Schneegz]

From Cycle World:

Erik Buell Racing 1190RS - Exclusive First Ride
Ultra-light EBR 1190RS superbike from Erik Buell Racing.
By Steve Anderson, Photography By Tim White
May 2011



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After riding it for about 50 laps at Road America, during a test session that had originally been intended for EBR racer Geoff May alone, I was almost speechless. But May, who was trying the street machine for the first time, wasn’t: “This thing is too good to be a streetbike,” he said as he pulled his helmet off after his first laps on an EBR 1190 with a headlight, turnsignals and taillight. “It’s faster than my 1125RR.”

He wasn’t kidding. The completely stock EBR 1190RS, serial number 11—the first production version—in the Carbon-Fiber Edition, weighed just 384 pounds at the curb, full of everything except fuel. With the optional race muffler and race ECU, the way it appeared at Road America, it weighed just 369 pounds with a dry tank, or 397 pounds with fuel brimming. And it made as much or more power (175-plus horsepower) than the 1125cc bike May had been racing and placing in the top ten in AMA SuperBike, and with which he even briefly led the 2010 Barber SuperBike race. Meanwhile, the new skinny fairing offered a substantial aerodynamic improvement over more bulbous fairings from the Buell era. The equation was simple: similar power with more torque, similar weight as the pure racing bike and significantly better aerodynamics. No wonder the 1190RS in Stage 1 trim (muffler, ECU) was literally faster than its pure racing predecessor.

Holy crap!  397lb full of fuel?!  In a street legal 1190cc V-twin?!  Yes, I realize that's with the EBR accessory exhaust, but still!

Anyway, there's more at the link, so check it out.  

[Brad1445]

I'll go buy four other bikes from proven manufactures.  Unless they introduced drug testing at EBR

[2DFlyer]

I'll go buy four other bikes from proven manufactures.  Unless they introduced drug testing at EBR

I don't fit the demographic either but I'll be surprised if he's got left overs at the end of the model year.