Lots of Recent EBR Press

[whodom]

Several great articles on EBR and Hero recently:

Hero vs. Honda: Battle of the Titans (starring Erik Buell)-   http://www.gizmag.com/hero-honda-battle-buell/30727/

Cycle News: Interview with Erik Buell- http://cyclenews.uberflip.com/i/262687

EBR Receives $10k Grant to Attend European Motorcycle Show:  http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/business/246151391.html

and

http://ultimatemotorcycling.com/erik-buell-racing-heads-motodays-fiera-roma-thanks-grant/

WSBK Phillip Island: Progress made as EBR debuts
http://www.crash.net/wsbk/news/200384/1/progress-made-as-erik-buell-racing-debuts.html

Cycle News Test of EBR 1190RS (yes, RS)- http://cyclenews.uberflip.com/i/229152

Things are apparently rocking along in East Troy!  

[Sport-Touring]

[tankhead]

I hope that Cycle world interview finally puts the "Rotax" engines rumors to bed.  Comes straight from the man's mouth....."not sharing any components from any other Rotax engine...... 1125R only had 3 total components from Rotax originally......all of the assembling was done in house....Rotax makes no contribution whatsoever to their manufacture now.....

Thanks for posting.

[veefer800canuck]

Crucially for EBR, the 1190RX is considerably down on top speed compared with its rivals, with May reaching the speed gun at 278km/h. This is compared with Sylvain Guintoli, who was the quickest rider in straight line at 314km/h.

This does not bode well. It's gonna be a long season if they can't rent some solid rocket boosters.

[whodom]

This does not bode well. It's gonna be a long season if they can't rent some solid rocket boosters.

Remember, they had NO WSBK practice prior to this week.  New crews and new bikes on different tires running different fuel (compared to AMA) with riders with no prior experience on this track.  STEEP learning curve.  It's only reasonable to expect it to take them a while (maybe a long while) to be competetive. May started out ~8 seconds down a lap on the first day of testing, dropped that to ~4 seconds a lap by the second day of testing.   Patience, grasshopper.  

Considering EBR started from scratch 4 years ago the fact that they're even here is a miracle.