damn...id say the way erik looks, hes on the verge of a breakdown, and id say hes been hittin the bottle pretty hard since gettin the news. sad news tho.
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| Author: | madski [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Harley is killing Buell and selling off MV |
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/HarleyDav ... l?x=0&.v=1 Shame to see them kill the Buell brand. Never been a huge fan but at least it was an American sport bike. Wonder who will pick up MV? Erik Buell's personal message, sad... http://www.buell.com/en_us/ |
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| Author: | chia [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling of MV |
damn...id say the way erik looks, hes on the verge of a breakdown, and id say hes been hittin the bottle pretty hard since gettin the news. sad news tho.
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| Author: | Phenix_Rider [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling of MV |
Should be interesting to see where "working the technical innovations into future HD's" goes. A "revolution in technology" seems to mean rubber mounting an engine 
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| Author: | madski [ Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling of MV |
Well there is that other American sport bike company: http://www.fischer1.com/Fischer_motorcycles.htm They are actually shipping bikes and apparently ramping up production to fill increasing orders. I would so rock one of those buggers - looks like a riot of a bike, what an SV should have been and the price ain't all that bad either. http://blogs.superstreetbike.com/659377 ... index.html |
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| Author: | Phenix_Rider [ Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:05 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling of MV |
| Author: | madski [ Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling off MV |
other than the Hyosung motor that bike looks like a winner - that's a lot of good stuff for 8k. |
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| Author: | Phenix_Rider [ Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling off MV |
| Author: | madski [ Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling off MV |
i looks like a pretty amazing little bike and they claim they will be supporting it in the twin classes with WERA and CCS next year. will be interesting to see how they do vs. SV's in there. i know a lot of guys have tried running 180's on the back of SV's and most have gone back to the 160. not that i was ever that fast on mine but i never really felt like it needed anything bigger than that in the back. i think the biggest reason they tried upsizing the rear was to get a better selection of tires. |
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| Author: | Phenix_Rider [ Sat Oct 17, 2009 8:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling off MV |
| Author: | madski [ Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Harley is killing Buell and selling off MV |
I spoke to Zoran at TWF about this pretty extensively when I had my SV. He probably knows more about those bikes than any other human being alive. He makes a conversion kit for F4 wheels to work with the SV. But he did not see any benefit in it either. There are a lot of high end street/track tires that are not made in a 160. The CIII is a prime example. There is also less in the way of DOT's and slicks. Another big reason guys used to look into the conversion was so they could get cheap take-offs which is very plentiful in 180 but fairly rare in 160. |
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