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     Jens |
Each year Volker Schirmer from Buell Hannover celebrate the Seasonopener as the Buell Trackday at the Oschersleben Racetrack. This year the event is again nearly booked out. 130 Buellriders signed in and of course all racers who like to show up with their bikes in the 2007 season. The press is there like all years to grab a Buell for a Tracktest. Special Bike this year is the “State of the Art” XB 12 R with a complete Öhlins suspension Setup and the Termignoni exhaust. We came over directly from the 50th Bremerhaven Fishtownraces where Tommy Schuler with “Thors Hammer” the Twincarb Hillbilly-Motors Tubeframe Racebike finished in the class Fishtowntwins as 10th competing with the 4 Valve watercooled Ducatis and Aprillias. Also at Oschersleben our friends from the XBORG Raceteam with the Buell XB RSS Racebike. Both bikes are powered by a 1200cc “Shortstroke Attack” M-TeK engine. In the Tubeframe setup the engine have more power, but the drivebility of the XB is because of the adjustable injectionsystem much smoother. Heiko and Christian worked over night to repair the XBORG bike after Mikes crash in Bremerhaven and now the Bike is ready for testing. We had a date with Jessica Baruth for some first tests on the XB. Jessi comes from the Red Buell Rookie Honda Cup and race very succesful in the IDM Supermoto Prestigeclass. Here she will ride for the first time a bike with this weight and power. Jessi is a real talent and from lap to lap it was visible that she was getting more and more control over the bike. In the end when it was drying up, she comes to the limitation of the stock fork, we mounted as spare after the crash of Mike... Well done! -we will see how it goes further with here and Buell. Tommy was over the day still working on the Carb. setup, because here on the quick track our old problems coming back. Nice Match of the day had Volker Schirmer on the XB RR with Julius Ilmberger on the XBORG XB, great to watch. Thanks to Volker for organizing this outstanding Event, the Hillbilly-Motors and XBORG Crew and of course the Photographers Barbara, Olaf an Klaus who made so much great Shoots under this weatherconditions. Pictures: http://www.hillbilly-motors.com/html/buell_trackda y_2007.html Best regards Jens www.hillbilly-motors.com | ||
| Coolice |
Thanks for the report Jens! Say hi to Volker, he was at Daytona with us for the MotoST and 200 this year. We have a Buell trackday this Thursday at Road America! Can't wait!  | ||
| Court |
Great report and it looks like you have a wonderful time. I love the way the website is in German and English. Well done Jens! | ||
| Jens |
Mike, I will say hello from you. Court, well we try hard and let the Buellworld notice it (-: Jens | ||
| Jackbequick |
Very interesting reading, thanks for posting it. It is ironic that reports like the French V-Twin races, this one, and the Buell track day thread in Germany present the racing and on track activities of Buells in France and Germany, in at least some ways, as being more widespread and active than they are here in the U.S. It would be great to see more activity like that at tracks here in the U.S. It is the natural path to evolving the riders and machinery, having fans, and fans having fun. Getting the fans out to the track really feeds the process. As much disdain as I have for the circus/soap serial that NASCAR has become, it would have been interesting to think about what might have happened if Bill France and Bill France Jr. had been motorcycle racers. Jack (Message edited by jackbequick on June 05, 2007) |
