There’s a brand new Buell bike on the way in which. Yes, you learn that proper: a brand new Buell. And, not like any earlier Buell, this new bike is a heels-in-the-air, high-bar, cruiser.
The new Buell Super Cruiser was unveiled on Friday with its designer, Roland Sands, in California. The new bike has Buell’s ET-V2 engine, a 1190cc or 72.6 ci, 72-degree V-twin with liquid cooling. Buell says it makes 185 horsepower, with 101.6 lb.-ft (138 Nm) of torque. But, in accordance with Buell CEO, Sands was capable of maintain the sportbike proportions and 17-inch wheels, so the bike will doubtless deal with equally to Buell’s present crop of sportbikes, in the event you decrease the bars, that’s.
“We wanted to keep the performance of the engine, the rear swingarm, and that’s key to why it handles so well,” Buell CEO Bill Melvin informed Bike EXIF. “We also made the decision to keep the front-end race suspension and perimeter brakes and sport bike wheels. We kept that whole package.”
The Super Cruiser retains most of the elements of Buell’s present 1190SX sportbike.
So far, all we’d seen was a number of glimpses from Buell’s Instagram of the brand new bike, the place we noticed a entrance wheel, a seat, and a clutch cowl. The new bike, although, seems prefer it makes liberal use of Sands’ aftermarket catalog for the seat, bars, and different bits. The bike has a brief club-style fairing, and conventional – and dare we even say it – Harley-like – strains. It does break with custom with the cool uncovered mono-shock below the seat.
Buell sportbikes are identified for having gasoline within the body to maintain the burden low and to counteract the heavy high finish of the tall V-twin engines. The new Super Cruiser, although, has a standard fuel tank. Also, not like a Harley, it has a radiator mounted up entrance.
Loads has been written in regards to the historical past of the Buell firm and the brand new Buell homeowners. We can’t speculate on the way forward for the corporate, however we will say that it’s an all-American enterprise. This is the third incarnation of Buell, type of.
The firm was began by charismatic racer Erik Buell within the early Nineteen Eighties, after which Harley-Davidson purchased into the corporate within the Nineties, earlier than divesting a few decade later. Buell later based Erik Buell Racing, which produced a sequence of sportbikes with the 1190 motor. Then, in 2021, the corporate was once more re-launched with the Pegasus emblem and a number of other new sporty fashions.
The Buell Hammerhead appears to observe within the custom of the older Buell sportbikes. Several years after the final Buell or EBK model, the brand new Hammerhead makes use of the identical motor however provides a sporty fairing. The firm has plans to promote a number of new fashions, together with a sport tourer and a dust bike, which you’ll be able to order, or pre-order, now.
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Source: www.bikeexif.com