| Author | Message | ||
     Davegess |
Jens, can you guys send a press release out to places like Road Racing World ans some of the other mags? I would include Cycle News and the big one two. I think you will get a lot of attention. If you need help I will be glad to volunteer. Dave | ||
| Jens |
I just let a statement on Eriks Facebook side, regarding the result and laptimes after somebody from Danmark telling the people the SBK competitors were standing on profileroadtyres. Thats Bullshit, most of them were standing on Slicks, many on the same Dunlops we used. Julius Ilmberger, who compete this year in the stocksport Championship, was on profiled Supersport Competition Tyres, but not because of the rulebook, he choosed that because he used that race for testing his stocksport setup. I am really gettin a bit tiered of these Buellhaters, you can do what you like, they always come with new storys.... We know very well were we stand with the EBR 1190 RR and Harald. In Spain we had a lot of IDM pilots on the track, so we know laptimes, same track, same day. Trust me, the bike is a very solid foundation to go with the big guys (-: Jens | ||
| Jens |
@ Dave, thank you very much for these offer. I am a bit late with all after these flightchaos in Europe rerarding the ashcloud problems. I will prepare the pressrelease today and I aprecciate your help. Jens | ||
| Elvis |
Don't let them get to you, Jens. You and your team-mates are heroes!  | ||
| 186bigtwin |
The 1190 sounds like a great platform, like all race engines a year or two of development will make a world of difference. Ducati didn't start out with the 1198cc engine, remember all the way back to the 851? I believe the 1190 will be the equal of any twin on the race track soon and sounds like it's doing really good right now. Quite a testament for so new a race tool...... | ||
| Jens |
The 1190 RR-B first victory video is out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-r0aTgrN64 Video in high resolution: http://gallery.me.com/thomas_wanner#100164 (Message edited by Jens on May 01, 2010) | ||
| Buell2001b |
Jens great video guys thnaks for keeping us up to date | ||
| Betzy |
Congrats, Go Buell!!!!!!! | ||
| Jens |
Upcoming event: 31. Ducati Clubraces Assen / NL 28.-30th of May 2010 http://www.ducaticlub.nl/?action=read&id=237 After in Daytona is no more highest level V-Twin races, the Ducaticlubrace in Assen might be the most important (and hardest)event for V-Twin Racing (at least in Europe). Pegasusraceteam with rider Harald Kitsch compete with the 1190 RR in the Sound of Thunderraces. We had a (in general very positive) final shakedown last weekend in Oschersleben (Harald rode the fastest Buell laptime of a Buell motorcycle ever there) but we found in the end a major technical problem. We work hard on a solution to get the things solved and looking forward for a great race weekend. We need to leave tomorrow afternoon, so it looks like there is a long worknight in front of the team...(-: Thanks for the support Jens | ||
| Smoke |
Best Luck in the upcoming events Jens!! tim | ||
| Xb1125r |
Jens, best of luck. you guys make Buellers very proud. thanks for the hard work | ||
| Jens |
Ducati Clubraces 2010 Assen TT- Course # 1 Harald Kitsch, E.B.R 1190 RR - Victory Heat1, 3rd Heat2 Another european Rock´n Roll Raceweekend for the friends of Buell Racing. Assen is actually the most important race worldwide for Twins - as long as Daytona does not offer a separate Twin-class at the Bikeweek. For us it's the most important race of the year as the best European drivers meet there - and some of them are supported with factory-bikes (example the KTM RC8, the Ducati 1198 we competed with in the SoT). As there are more strict noise limits in Assen (104 dB) than in our German series we had to prepare a special muffler setup which was on the E.B.R 1190 not so simple. Only way was a connectingtube after the small racecan to a huge canister mounted beside the undertray. Assen events rulebook said the exhaust could not be longer than the vertical line of the reartyre, so the tube came out directly behind the right footpeg. Not good for the footposition on the straights, but in the corners it should work. We mapped the bike with this setup and found that the loss of HP was near to nothing - size matters.... We had booked a trackday on Thursday and an extra practice day on Friday to give Harald some tracktime. While we moved into the pitbox at Wednesday night we received a call from Harald, he´s still home unable to move because of a lumbago, waiting for the doctor to arrive at his home. We had some headache with the 1190 on our final tracktest the weekend before at Oschersleben, so the half team was working nightshifts during the week to fix the bikes and now all is ready, weather is fine, but the rider could not move. Nobody said racing is easy... So we skipped Thursday’s tracktime so Harald can see a specialist to make him fit for the weekend. He arrived in the evening to pick up the papers at the riders welcome, where the next shock comes up, we are only signed in for the races, the extra day on Friday was paid, but something got wrong. We explain the problem and Ton, Secretary of the Ducaticlub, told us to show up next day, he put us on the waitinglist and if there will be “no show ups” we can get tracktime. We manage it to go out for the 2 afternoon turns, because of a 88 dB noiselimited we used Haralds GSX, better than nothing on this very quick track, where missing the right line directly cost 4-5 seconds. Wheather was friendly with dry conditions and Harald was doing his laps. Meanwhile we showed the first bike at the technical inspection. When you as a mainly german Team what´s racing Buells go to the Ducati Clubraces in the Netherlands you should be very well prepared. So we study the Rulebook into the last detail before and found that T-bikes are not allowed. But a phonecall in the week before let it look all ok, T-Bikes in the Sound of Thunder are ok, said the Ducaticlub. The event is hold under the FIM / KNMW -Koninklijke Nederlandse Motorrijders Vereniging (Royal Dutch Motorcycle Organisation) authority and these people had the responsebility about the rules. And the moment of truth comes up after our “B” bike passed the inspection (including noisetest - we had 98 dB) and we try to get a proof for our “A” bike. No Go! The rulebook say no T-Bikes (as we know) but Ducaticlub and KNMW had different views, so they decided to talk internal on a meeting on Saturdaymorning about that. Funny because some competitors had already stickers on the T-Bike... Sky was still looking fine, but the weather report said clear latest for the Sunday (race day) rain and that’s what you need a T-Bike for. So on Friday evening, the team was standing there with a controlsticker on the “B” bike with the big radiateurs, a rider with his teeth tightly pressed together, having in front time practices (no free practice) on Saturday and two races (no warm up) on Sunday. Nobody said racing is funny..... We came to get a podium finish and we had a good setup for dry-racing - but still no experience with the 1190 in the rain. Next morning, before the first time practice the raceofficials hadn’t made no decission yet about the T-Bikes in the Sound of Thunder. So Harald went out with the proofed B-Bike to Q1 and 9 laps later for the moment we we’re on pole. Racing is great........ Around noon we got the sticker on the “A” bike after raceofficials decided that T-bikes will be allowed in the Sound of Thunder. In late afternoon in Q2 Harald came in for a quick tire change when we thought the bike starts to burn - heavy smoke in the rear section - but it's been only Harald's boot which caught fire when he pressed it too tightly to the connection tube of the second muffler (-: Anyhow we kept the pole and found with the “A” bike another 7/10 in laptime. Racing can be wonderful..... Haralds laptimes remained the quickest ones of the weekend, but that was under dry conditions - but for tomorrow we need to deal with rain and the bike was never out in the wet, so we had no rain setup ridden out. We had a too hard setup for rain conditions and Harald got no chance to get the power to the track. Paul Mooijman on the KTM RC8R and Gerald Perdon on his Ducati 1198 were together with Harald battling for the victory in both races. So we ended with one victory and one P3 in Assen - much more than we expected - a result we dreamed about! Since we've been the best bike of the national series in both races we got the full 25 points for each race and are actually leading the Sound of Thunder series with 100 out of 100 possible points. But after the race is ahead the race - we've to prepare everything for the next races June 24.-27. in Oschersleben at the Festival Italia - and in between there is the famous Midsummernight-Meeting of the German Buellowners where Pegasusraceteam will have some bikes on display. 4 more Buellracers competed at the 31. Ducati Clubraces in Assen in the Thunderbike competition: Ronnie Kreeft -from AST Suspension (3.), Bas Leek (1.), Jean Claude Luijcx -the racing Buelldealer (15.) and Gilbert Backx (9.). Also there a great succes for the bikes out of East Troy: Poleposition for Ronnie und victory for Bas! Pictures: http://www.pegasusraceteam.com/html/assen_gallery_ 2010.html Jens | ||
| Davegess |
Great report! Good job! Congrats! | ||
| Court |
Jens: You and your team are amazing! Thanks for an amazing report. Court | ||
| Thepod |
Awesome, please keep doing what you are doing. All the Erik Buell Racing and Buell fans appreciate your effort. | ||
| Smoke |
WOOHOO!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!! GO BUELL RACERS!!! tim | ||
| Reepicheep |
Great job! Thanks for the report! | ||
| Doerman |
So much fun to look through the pictures and reading your account of the race weekend! Pictures don't lie. A great team coherence shines through. Thank you for sharing with us. What you guys are doing and accomplishing is a BIG DEAL! | ||
| Fenderbender |
Fantastic! Keep it up! | ||
| Rpm4x4 |
That is awesome! Thanks for the details. | ||
| Just_john |
A great accurate report by Jens, I know because I was there with other Buellers from the UK supporting him! I can confirm that Dutch rain is very wet! | ||
| Jens |
Thank you all for your support. Sorry to them who sended mails about T-Shirts or other merchandising, we are still working on a payable solution to get the stuff over to the USA and on a solution for order and paypal payments. We are on it... Team gettin packed for the 2010 www.festival-italia.de at Oschersleben for round 5 & 6 of the Sound of Thunder Championship with Harald Kitsch. The 1190 RR-B is again in pieces, so we hope to get the bike ready for the competition. Robin Taborsky our youngster will compete in the Pro BEARS with the Buell XB 12R. Teams Pro Thunder rider Manni Kehrmann can not start after the doctors found some further going injuries in his shoulder and knee from his crash with his Supermono in Assen. It´s Teampricipal Thomas Wanner´s birthday today, so we will work hard to make him a present the upcoming weekend. Jens | ||
| Thomas_w |
...best gift would be all necessary bikes running and at least 2 podiums in SoS  Placed the onboard-video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYvBR2y__vs&feature =youtube_gdata There is no sound - at least I don't get any complains about the music  | ||
| Firstbuell |
& a very "Happy Birthday" to Thomas Wanner is there a present? well, Herr Wanner's giving us BadWebbers the present - an 1190RR team that's visibly successful | ||
| Mark_1 |
Good Luck!! and great job!!! | ||
| Imonabuss |
Happy belated birthday, Thomas! Thanks for putting together such a great team, and for running the 1190! We are all big fans of Pegasusraceteam! | ||
| Court |
>>>>We are all big fans of Pegasusraceteam! That's an accurate statement!  Jens: PM an address that I can use to post to you. | ||
| Blake |
Thanks for the video link Thomas! Happy belated birthday. Go Pegasus Race Team! | ||
| Jens |
Good morning America! We had a wonderful day on the track yesterday. Bikes were all doing great. Harald is so fast with the now runnning just super 1190 RR-B. Looks like the problem is solved. Robin cuttin the laptimes with the XBR, pure fun to see the young gun gettin faster (-: How times are changing: Team had a long night by celebrating Thomas birthday and ending up by watching "On any Sunday" and "The world fastest Indian" on our beamer, bringing US motorculture to the green-white-red tinted paddock. Finally we repeated at 2.30 that 10 minute "Harald Kitsch riding the sh## out of the Erik Buell racing 1190 RR-B" at Assen video, with big speakers ((-: you must hear that! We will try to get a highspeed connection today to load it up at youtube, so have a look in some hours, special on this weekend when this track is the bigboys playground. Thanks all for your support! Had yeaterday some nice videoshooting with Thomas on the Camerabike out on the track, so Oscherslebenvideo comes up soon. (Message edited by Jens on June 26, 2010) | ||
| Jens |
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