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Originally Posted by Speed Demon 828  Eboos, try and look at the buell as if you weren't a salesman for them. They touted the bike as the 1125r superbike.
Now take that 1125r and park it next to a 1098 or an Aprillia mille and tell me which ones are superbikes? Or campare it to a GXSRZXCBRRR1 and how do you think it will fare?
It's has no class- what i mean is it does not fit in any superbike class. Those bikes will destroy that thing.
It seems more like a Ducati ST to me. |
Yea that's what I was kind of trying to say. The motor didn't have as much punch as a 999, which gets eaten alive by the 1098!
I got off the thing and compared notes with Brian Catterson (Editor of Motorcyclist) and my first comments were 'Nice streetbike, not so nice racebike'. I'm sure someone will race it and 'go pretty fast' (hell Nate Kern rips the BMW!) but it's not quite ready for Superbike primetime.
Hey it's a nice little streetbike and a step in the right direction for Buell. *applause*. Anything that gets people off mass-produced UJM's is cool with me.
Tuesday I'll be riding at Laguna on a 848, the 1125R's will be there as well. Now that will be a interesting comparison....