EBR 1190RX Track Day Reports from Indianoplis

[whodom]

Three reports from press track day at Indy this week:

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/2014/06/ebr-1190rx-md-first-ride/

http://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/buell/2014-ebr-1190rx-review-first-ride.html

And video report from Greg's Garage: http://vimeo.com/98161669

[Sport-Touring]

[veefer800canuck]

I stopped watching the video report when the VP of marketing said "It's got a real low center of gravity"


Honda proved that 30 years ago with the underslung fuel tank on the NSR500. It don't work.

Good thing he's in marketing and not in engineering.

[veefer800canuck]

No disrespect to the Man from Mukwonago, I mean, he could have gone selling insurance, but he didn't.  

[whodom]

I stopped watching the video report when the VP of marketing said "It's got a real low center of gravity"


Honda proved that 30 years ago with the underslung fuel tank on the NSR500. It don't work.

Good thing he's in marketing and not in engineering.

Hopefully they'll get him straightened out quickly.  IIRC, that guy was hired away from Aprilia, where he'd grown their US sales immensely in the last 3 or 4 years.  Hopefully he can do as well for EBR.

[HipGnosis]

Honda proved that 30 years ago with the underslung fuel tank on the NSR500. It don't work.

But wouldn't that cause the center of gravity to change as the fuel was depleted??  That'd have to be fun...

[veefer800canuck]

But wouldn't that cause the center of gravity to change as the fuel was depleted??  That'd have to be fun...

Yeah, they did away with it.

Mass centralization is where it's at. You want all the heaviest bits right about the middle of the bike. Not down low. That works for cars. Cars don't have a roll axis anywhere resembling that of a bike.