Geoff May & Erik Buell Racing

[Jezuz]

So is the 1190 racing against liter bikes finally? Or are they still putting it against the 600 class?

It's AMA Superbike. Superbike means 1 liter 4 cylinders, or 1.2 liter twins.

 

[moshaholic2]

The 1125 never raced against the 600s, that was the XBRR (1200).

+1000000

Probably one of the most annoying "comments" made toward buells is the, "they had to race in the 600 class" comment.

I'm super excited for the Miller race (as it also is a WSBK race). The track is much faster than Infineon though, so keeping up momentum out of the corners is going to be key.

 

[Jezuz]

Actually, Buell raced a 1125R on the 2009 AMA Daytona SportBike Championship against 600cc Inline4 bikes, like the R6, GSXR600 etc.
It made about the same amount of hp, more torque etc. People like European magazine test riders (neutral) that rode both, said that the Buell had an X amount of advantages over the I4s, but also X amount of disadvantages, thus making it a fair to race side by side in their opinion.

Buell also released a race-specific 1125RR version (notice the second R) in 2009, to compete in the AMA Superbike series, against the likes of GSXR1000, R1 etc.

 

[moshaholic2]

True, they did race in the daytona class with an additional weight penalty added on. Kind of like the 1190 last season until AMA modernized their rules for thos season.

 

[gotboost2jz]

They also raced an 1125 at a couple other events (Mid Ohio being one) against 600's. I wasn't aware the RR was made for superbike.
This is good to hear. It frustrated me watching buell race in the 600 class and all the 600 fans whinning about it saying they couldn't compete elsewhere.

 

[onelogue]

Last week ends race finish. Danny Eslick put on quite a show at the end

 

[vaxb12r]

Onelogue thanks for the post, I missed it thanks to work. And on the conversation about the 1125r danny eslick raced it to the dsb championship win in 2010. Same year there was also a team running an aprillia rsv4 im the same class. That year an rsv4 won the wsbk championship. It was one of the first years of the dmg managed ama and their new classes so some kinks to work out. First race may did in superbike he was on a bike identical to danny's and got 8th I believe. That gave danny's championship a bit of a black eye but a repeate on a gsxr cleared that up. But luckily thats in the past we got a badass bike not fully developed getting podiums with both riders and the addition of some of project one atlantas mechanics means that development will go faster.

 

[Loki]

Thanks for the video!

 

[gotboost2jz]

That was exhilarating to watch! I need to watch SB races more often!

 

[Jezuz]

...and the addition of some of project one atlantas mechanics means that development will go faster.

So, that's confirmed then?

 

[vaxb12r]

Ya, I read it on one of the quick weekend wrap ups on roadracingworld. It barely got a paragraph. Kinda sucks because I really like that team but I won't complain if they are with ebr![up]

 

[nativeXb12Rbuell]

AMA PRO youtube channel


and in case you haven't seen this , here!




from AMAProRacing.com
The rest of the top ten is a tightly-contested group of seven riders, and six manufacturers, separated by just 18 points. Leading that pack is Hayes’ AMA Pro SuperBike freshman teammate Josh Herrin (Monster Energy Graves Yamaha) with 84 markers, followed by Larry Pegram (Foremost Insurance Pegram BMW), Geoff May (Team Amsoil/Hero EBR), Steve Rapp (Attack Performance Kawasaki), Danny Eslick (Hero Moto Corp. EBR), Chris Fillmore (Team HMC KTM) and Chris Clark (Yoshimura Racing Suzuki).


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and forget about Shawn Higbee riding the other EBR 1190RS in the AMA Superbike races.

goodluck to all the EBR riders/racers !

 

[nativeXb12Rbuell]

BigM Weekend
SuperBike Qualifying 2 - SuperBike
May 27, 2012
Miller Motorsports Park

BigM Weekend

May 28, 2012

SuperBike Warm-Up 2 - SuperBike

Miller Motorsports Park, Tooele, UT
1.#54 Roger Hayden National Guard Jordan Suzuki
2.#99 Geoff May Team Amsoil/Hero

 

[nativeXb12Rbuell]

spoiler!.............





Big M Weekend


Miller Motorsports Park
Tooele, UT
May 26 - 28, 2012
AMA SuperBike Results..

 

[vaxb12r]

I just watched the race, ebr's are bad ass concidering no electronics and they are soo strong at the end.

 

[gotboost2jz]

That was a fun race. The little battle between May and Bostrom was nice and the ending between Herrin and Young was intense! They made contact, Herrin lost ground, and still came back to pass for the 2nd place finish. Great last few laps in that race

Too bad Eslick got such a bad start :/

 

[Jezuz]

2012 AMA SuperBike Friday Barber:
1. Josh Hayes (Yamaha) 1:25.696
2. Geoff May (EBR) 1:26.061
3. Ben Bostrom (Suzuki) 1:26.153

from http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/836/13517/Motorcycle-Article/AMA-Pro-Racing-Barber-Friday-2012.aspx

Race 1 results:
May 4th, Eslick 7th

http://live.amaproracing.com/rr/

 

[Jezuz]

Race 2 results:
May 4th, Eslick out

May is 4th on the points [up]

 

[ANIMOSITY]

4th in points and all on a bike with no traction control!

 

[Jezuz]

Actually on this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE4l76h2DTM they say that they'd like TCS for next year, because it'll make their life easier 'cause they'll have to work less, even though it'll probably not make them faster.
Great results though, and no TCS means that both rider and bike get extra compliments for tallent and setup respectively, and for hard work as well.