Erik's new vid clip - seen this yet?

[CANADAXB]

Take a look - there is hope...

http://www.erikbuellracing.com/index.htm

 

[dave_xb12r]

Yeah it was posted on the buell website a week ago. At least HD let him post that.

 

[CANADAXB]

Thanks Dave - just looked and saw it too..I see he said thanks to HD. That must have been hard to do....

 

[OLDnINTHEWAY]

Hey, he forgot to thank OLDnINTHEWAY[confused]

 

[maybebuell]

nice to see Harley will support Eric with motorcycles and parts

 

[Bolt]

Yes, there is hope & eric looked like a happy man, good for him.

 

[ramjr55]

Yeah I got made respect for a guy that doesn't give up on his dream and puts his feelings and passion out there.

 

[browland]

YAY xb race exhaust woooo

 

[JOEL9]

i wonder if he has a warehouse full of xb race pipes somewere or maybe they're comming out with a new one.

 

[BRomanowski]

Awesome, I didn't think we were going to get any XB parts!!

 

[icepop77]

I'm hoping he can get back to building bikes in a couple of years. I have a 12 year old son who wants to buy a new Buell the day he's old enough to get his license. Hopefully, Erik will be building production sportbikes by that point.

 

[agfish18]

giggidy

 

[boreas]

Yes..... race exhaust[cool]

 

[Bolt]

this may inspire eric to develope new inovations& patents-hopefully he's learned his lesson with HD-imagine what the next gen will be like-

Clearly,it made no sense to drop the newest&best line of bikes that were toping the charts.I can't help but wonder if there's something we all don't know behind the dreadfull decision to drop Buell-was really all about the money &keeping HD from going under?

 

[dave_xb12r]

It could be as simple as supply and demand

 

[Bolt]

Maybee, but from what I was seeing ,Buell was selling bikes & winning races.

 

[icepop77]

It could be as simple as supply and demand

Part of creating demand is good marketing. Buell was probably the worst marketed brand name in motorcycling in the last 30 years.

 

[CANADAXB]

+1. The best? HD? Ducati? What's your thoughts?

 

[Bolt]

Icepop77-Maybee bad marketing but anybody paying attention was turning their head at the product racing by.

Canada xb-that's a sticky question, the bast at what?
If you mean all around all points-ducati Is way up there-
But honestly I do think it's Buell -that's why I own two of em-
It all comes down to personal taste!

 

[icepop77]

@Bolt: enthusiasts (like us) have made that purchase based on "race day". The 20-something buyer who walks into a dealer with the itching for a sportbike will only buy a Kawayamasuzonda because that's what they see on TV and that's also what you can find in a typical non-HD dealer. Put Buells in one of those dealers and I guarantee those 20-something guys will buy up a Buell every now and then instead and following the herd on their Japanese inline 4s. That's how I would market Buell, "Break away from the herd, be different".