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     Elvis |
I posted this over in the racing section, but I think more people hang out it here, so I thought it was worth a mention. Shawn Higbee is apparently making a grass-roots privateer effort in the AMA in 2009 after it seems RMR couldn't get enough sponsorship support. He is detailing his efforts in his blog on his web-site and I find it FASCINATING and I think some of you will be interested as well. I'm sure he could use all the support he could get and there are a lot of people on this board who will be interested in his efforts, so check it out when you get a chance: http://www.higbee-racing.com/ http://shawnhigbee.wordpress.com/ | ||
| Barker |
GO Shawn!, GO Privateers! GO Buell! Too bad one particular sponsorship did not go thru. Currently I cant go in to details. If yall know my involvement in AMA racing, you could figure out what I am talking about and which sponsor was sooooo close to sponsoring a Buell team. Would have been awesome.  | ||
| Bads1 |
spill it???? | ||
| Barker |
IMHO, An American bike w/ American Rider w/ American sponsor. It would have been epic. (Message edited by barker on February 18, 2009) | ||
| Elvis |
*Edited to avoid putting Barker in a bad spot* (Message edited by elvis on February 18, 2009) | ||
| Barker |
IMHO way better than a Lizard. Yall come find me @ March Badness and we can talk. | ||
| Elvis |
I think sponsors should realize there's a difference between Suzuki riders and Buell riders. There are so many Suzukis out there racing at so many levels with so many sponsors everything gets blurred together. And Suzuki owners, for the most part, are just people who bought a motorcycle. They're not part of a community. If a sponsor puts their name on a Buell, they'll get noticed. | ||
| Elvis |
Just updated with a very cool Willow Springs write-up. Apparently he had some troubles and couldn't get any practice laps, so did the open class to get a few laps in before the races he was really concentrating on. I'm not quite sure, but it also looks like he's using the carbon-fiber full fairing that's been going around IMS. http://shawnhigbee.wordpress.com/ | ||
| Elvis |
http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?artic le=35592 HEAVYWEIGHT TWINS: 1. Shawn Higbee (Bue 1125R) 2. Eric Nolan (Duc) 3. Bob Setbacken (Duc) 4. Damon Stewart (Hon RC51) 5. Tyler Purcell (Duc 748) FORMULA TWINS HEAVYWEIGHT: 1. Shawn Higbee (Bue 1125R) 2. Bob Setbacken (Duc) 3. Eric Nolan(Duc) 4. Tyler Purcell (Duc 748) 5. Rick May 6. Damon Stewart (Hon RC51) TOYOTA GOLD CUP UNLIMITED FORMULA 1: 1. Jeffrey Tigert (Hon CBR1000RR) 2. Karl Lowry (Yam YZF-R1) 3. Brant Wiwi (Yam YZF-R1) 4. Reno Karimian (Suz GSX-R1000) 5. Shawn Higbee (Bue 1125R) 6. Mitchell Wissner (Suz GSX-R1000) 7. Matt Quigley (Suz GSX-R1000) 8. Chris Duran (Yam YZF-R1) 9. Scott Tillery (Suz GSX-R1000) 10. Mike Martin (Yam YZF-R1) | ||
| Court |
Ya gotta love it . . . not only is he one heck of a nice guy, he's an amazing rider. . .
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| Wolfridgerider |
I wanted to show those Gixxers some 1125R taillight going into turn one That't great! I'm getting jacked up just thinking about the #1 board going sideways and waiting for the green flag to fly!! Best drug EVER!! I can't wait for Mid Ohio!! GO BUELL!!! | ||
| Slaughter |
Shawn WAS running the new Buell Racing bodywork and because it was so cool out there, there's no statement can be made about the cooling as compared to the FlexiGlas fairings... but the bike LOOKED good! He didn't have time Saturday for practice so he started "cold" on Sunday... but look at the results. The F1 race was won by Jeff Tigert - you have to realize that he's "the Shawn Higbee" of HRC... yes, Tigert is as close as you can be to a works rider. That race has a $10K purse in addition to Buell money... and Shawn is SIILL on a virtually stock motor (only race pipe and tuning) | ||
| Rex |
Congratulations to Shawn! Looks like another website to keep track of and read weekly...whoohoooooooooooooo. Go Buell! REX |
