| Author | Message | ||
     Knickers |
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?artic le=40233 And with the 1190 running at Miller for the superbike challenge we might see some lap times ton compare to WSB. Exciting stuff. | ||
| Maul |
Sweet! Can't wait. | ||
| Spank |
Geoff May will be the rider for the rest of the season! | ||
| Slaughter |
Also confirmed on Erik Buell Racing's facebook page. COOL GO Erik Buell Racing! | ||
| Paint_shaker |
Go EBR!!!!!!! | ||
| Endoman33 |
Geoff May, way to go dude and congrats to EBR for being able to put this deal together!   | ||
| Boomerm2 |
Great, I can't wait to cheer on a Buell again. Way to go EBR and congratulations Geoff!!!! | ||
| Lemonchili_x1 |
*Very* cool news!!!!!  | ||
| Jens |
Yes, thats great news and as I heared Geoff is feeling very good on the bikes. Great to see E.B.R now also in the US back! | ||
| Smoke |
Best luck for Geoff May, EBR and Buell Racing!! tim | ||
| Ponti1 |
Great news!! Best of luck to EBR and Geoff May for the season ahead! | ||
| Trojan |
What are the rules (if any) for the 'Superbike GTO Challenge'? Is it an 'anything goes' unlimited race? I have never heard of it before. | ||
| Elvis |
Matt, If I remember correctly, there are two races: A middle-weight class with some displacement and technical limits for various configurations and an open class that is basically "anything goes". Of course with the level of refinement of the current liter-bikes, nobody is going to race a Hayabussa or a rotary they built in their garage, but the 1190RR with Geoff May riding should make things very interesting. Here were the results from last year: http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?lnk=r ss&article=36763 | ||
| Elvis |
Here's some info. You have to read it carefully, because the GTO rules look to be one sentence: http://www.superbikechallenge.com/ "The GTO race is open to motorcycles of unlimited displacement and origin, with forced induction (e.g., turbo- or super-charging) allowed only for bikes under 750cc displacement. " | ||
| Aeholton |
This is fantastic news! Go Buell Racing! | ||
| Blake |
That's the way GP rules should be written, and the AMA should include such a series, unlimited GP baby! The big factories won't have it. | ||
| 186bigtwin |
I like that !!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Jaimec |
When the Formula USA class was first formed, it only had one rule: "Motorcycles must have just two wheels." I remember seeing a race at Pocono pitting overbored, supercharged GSXR-1100s competing against full-on Factory Yamaha YZR500 two-strokes. Wildest racing ever. The two Factory Yamahas were almost a half a lap ahead of the field. One of them crashed (Rich Oliver??) and the backup YZR500 won handily. | ||
| Trojan |
"The GTO race is open to motorcycles of unlimited displacement and origin, with forced induction (e.g., turbo- or super-charging) allowed only for bikes under 750cc displacement. " If that's the case then EBR couldn't have picked a harder class to debut the 1190RR in (depending on who enters of course). I hope it performs well. It would be good to see the Tularis in competition again  | ||
| 46champ |
Matt since there isn't an AMA race as a support race a lot of the field is made up of AMA superbike riders with no restrictions on their bikes. | ||
| Firstbuell |
Trojan, most/none of us have ever seen the Tularis, much less heard it or watched it compete izzit over in UK now with the Dr. ? | ||
| Blake |
"If that's the case then EBR couldn't have picked a harder class to debut the 1190RR in (depending on who enters of course). " The Buell 1190RR was debuted in the German series and finished atop the box both races. Maybe Mladin will show up for some fun. | ||
| Blake |
"Matt since there isn't an AMA race as a support race a lot of the field is made up of AMA superbike riders with no restrictions on their bikes." Not sure about that. Didn't happen last year, at least not any factory riders. | ||
| 46champ |
Not sure about that. Didn't happen last year, at least not any factory riders. Blake it's the privateer riders looking for a payday. I saw some familiar names and thought there were more superbike riders. (Message edited by 46champ on April 27, 2010) | ||
| Rkc00 |
Here is one of Geoff at Daytona 2010  | ||
| Trojan |
most/none of us have ever seen the Tularis, much less heard it or watched it compete izzit over in UK now with the Dr. ? Yes apparently it is in Oxford as Rob Tuluie is now part of the Renault F1 team. Every so often (not often enough) he rolls the bike out for a track day or to scare the press to death, but it is such a shame that it doesn't have anywhere to race now. For those that have never seen the Tularis, it was a 'home built' racer powered by a 700cc Rotax 2 stroke snowmobile engine that had 'just' 140bhp and weighed 270lbs. he raced it with some success but only for fun, and it would make a great spectacle racing against big 4 strokes in an unlimited class  More info here: http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2006/04/21/tul-a ris-two-stroke-racer/ | ||
| Bads1 |
Matt, I remember the bike. It actually appeared on Speed Vision here a TV show here in the states that aired a couple years ago. They did about a 10 minute skit on it if memory serves. It was fast for sure. (Message edited by bads1 on April 28, 2010) | ||
| Trojan |
The Buell 1190RR was debuted in the German series and finished atop the box both races. I think the bikes in the German series were restricted n some way but I'm not sure. maybe not the twins but the 4 cylinder bikes probably were as even german Superbikes are almost stock engine wise. What I meant was that entering the 1190RR in a race that could conceivably feature all sorts of unrestricted 4 cylinder 1000cc superbikes will be a hard debut for any new bike. | ||
| Elvis |
In addition to the 1190RR, there are two other bikes that should be legal (based on my interpretation of the rules) that I'd love to see at Miller:   Unfortunately, the Roehr is (Supercharged?) so I think that would leave them out - Though it seems like the organizers could consider an exception for a "production" forced induction such as Roehr. . . . but while I'd love to see all those bikes and maybe a few more (Bimota for example), I'm guessing the manufacturers of those bikes realize that a well tuned R1 will probably give any of them a run for their money on an actual race-track, so they probably wouldn't participate and risk their exotic images. Of those, I'd think Motoczysz might be the one most likely to take up the challenge. If he's really serious about going to Moto-GP when they go back to 1000 cc, it seems like this would be an ideal opportunity to shake some things out. . . . though I sort of suspect the last thing he may want is to find out how his bike will do against real competition. | ||
| Trojan |
Of those, I'd think Motoczysz might be the one most likely to take up the challenge. If he's really serious about going to Moto-GP when they go back to 1000 cc, it seems like this would be an ideal opportunity to shake some things out. Yeah right...Maybe Motocysz should change their name to DeLorean! We've waited years for this thing to arrive and he has never raced it yet. Every time I read anything about MotoCysz he is on a new project and heading in a different direction without finishing the last project  MotoGP...600..electric bike..........so far nothing finished. You forgot to mention Vyrus in your list of exotic bikes that could race Their latest supercharged 1198R engined bike could be very useful in an unlimited race http://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/2010-vyrus- 987-review-89399.html |
