New Buell Motorcycle

Daekar

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Apparantly Buell has teamed up with Rotax to produce a 1125cc 140+ horsepower sportbike. I was afraid that they'd get rid of the belt-type final-drive, but it looks like they didn't. Those guys do a great job of thinking outside the box, too - on this model, they didn't have a second bracket on the back to hold the rear brake.. instead, to save weight, they just mounted it directly to the swingarm! That's usin' the old noodle. :)

Check out the mini-site accessable from the above link... it's going to be a 2008 model! :D
 

turkdc

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Cool bike! Good to see that they are putting something other than a Harley Davidson lawn mower engine into the thing! Looks like the bike will have a really nice power curve.

I am not a huge fan of Buells. The wheelbases seem short and the Buells I have ridden all seem kind of twitchy. Pretty bikes anyway.

turk
 
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