AIMEXPO: EBR To Display 2013 Lineup

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AIMExpo Press Release: The American International Motorcycle Expo announced today that Erik Buell Racing will be hosting its dealers at the groundbreaking event in October. EBR joins an expanding list of motorcycle OEMs participating in AIMExpo, the powersports industry’s first combined trade, consumer and media event in North America. Since introducing its first street motorcycle [...]

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AMASBK: RSRacecraft Tests In Las Vegas

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RSRacecraft Press Release: RSRacecraft spent valuable time last weekend testing at the Las Vegas Classic Course.  In attendance were all three riders, Cory West, Dustin Dominguez and Brandon Cleland. Each rider getting their first chance to throw a leg over their prospective RSRacecraft built motorcycles. The main objective last weekend  was to get familiar with [...]

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AMASBK: Hero To Sponsor EBR 2013 Campaign

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Erik Buell Racing Press Release: EBR (Erik Buell Racing) announced today the awaited news on sponsorship for the 2013 AMA Pro Racing season. Erik Buell: “We are very happy to announce that Hero MotoCorp will be returning as the title sponsor for the Team Hero EBR 1190RS in the 2013 AMA Pro Racing American Superbike [...]

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AMASBK: RSRacecraft Announces 2013 Team

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RSRacecraft Press Release: RSRacecraft is pleased to announce the addition of Cory West to their team for 2013.  Dustin Dominguez  will join Cory West on the EBR 1190RS race bikes in the in the AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike Class for 2013. This rounds out the team with Brandon Cleland who will be racing AMA [...]

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The State of the Superbike The ins and outs of class warfare.

The State of the Superbike

We have two upsets for the price of one this month. Aprilia vanquishes the bleeding-edge Ducati for top honors among the Exotics while the apparent overdog Workhorse, the BMW S1000RR, returns to Munich to lick its wounds inflicted by, of all things, a Honda! A Honda without traction control or an unabashedly in-your-eardrums engine note [...]

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2012 Superbike Shootout Nine bikes, two tracks, Workhorses and Exotics, we search for the ultimate roadlegal track weapon in two price ranges.

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  Workhorse Shootout Exotic Shootout   Superbike by the Numbers Street Smarts   Rubber Wonders The Pirelli Question   A Shout Out to the Shootout The State of the Superbike  

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2012 Superbike Shootout: By the Numbers A statistical breakdown of hot laps.

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Located near the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Miller Motorsports Park is one of America’s premier roadrace venues. MMP offers multiple course configurations ranging from a lengthy, 4.5-mile Full Course to a 3.08-mile Perimeter Course or, when spit in half, comprises two distinctly different 2.2-mile circuits, aptly named the East Course and West [...]

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2012 Superbike Shootout: Exotics Seeking ultimate performance regardless of the price.

Exotics: Superbikes 2012

Not part of the proletariate? Or just so addicted to the upper echelon of performance motorcycles that you’ll spend whatever it takes to have the finest in moto exotica? Then you’ve come to the right place. The group we gathered for our all-out track attack on Miller Motorsports Park’s West Course covers a range of [...]

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Street Smarts Superbikes all, but home is really on the road.

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On the street, these nine superbikes are like caged animals, which is exactly why we took them to Miller Motorsports Park to feed. At a world-class racing venue, you can unlock their pens and let their predatory instincts take over. The reality, however, is that most people who purchase one of these potent machines will [...]

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Super Twins Are Danny Eslick and Geoff May on track to give Erik Buell Racing its first AMA Pro SuperBike win?

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The numbers don’t add up. That’s the consensus around the AMA Pro SuperBike paddock regarding chassis specifications of the Erik Buell Racing 1190RS. Twenty-two degrees of rake and 86mm of trail are simply too radical; the big Twin shouldn’t be competitive. But the factory EBRs ridden by Danny Eslick and Geoff May defy convention. “Fiercely [...]

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