You know, that has to be absolutely demoralizing to the guys he's going by and just lofting the front end at will, even in 4th or 5th gear as he's passing them.
Harald and the 1190 RR-B is definatly running out of competitors, but at the next race we go with the SBK´s and at the great Final at Biketoberfest from Oct. 7th-10th in Oschersleben the BEARS will return, inkl. the S 1000 RR... GREAT SPORT!
This weekend PRT rider Robin Taborsky compete with the XBR in MOST:
Another podium for Robin this weekend. Finished 3rd in the second PRO BEARS race at MOST / CZ. Next race is 27th - 29 of August at the legendary Schleizer Dreieck racetrack http://www.amc-schleizer-dreieck.de/
Blake, regarding that you have done the post # 100 in this thread I would like to use the moment to thank you very much for all your engagement over all these years for holding up the Buell flag and giving racers like us a podium. There is worldwide no other Buellcommunity what is gettin close to Badweb.
precisely in race two he put so much pressure on a CB 600 RR rider in front of him (who of course always accelerate on the straights and was blocking him in the corners)that after some laps that guy missed the brakepoint and parked horizontal in the gravelbed...
Maybe not nice to hear an angry shortstrokeattac Buell XB behind you showing up right / left of you from time to time... (-:
It was maybe one of the more intensive raceweekends.... what a story!
They cutted down because of neigborprotests (noise) the meeting on 2 days. Its an "natural" roadracetrack, so there are a lot of people live just beside the road. So all needed to be done now on Saturday and Sunday, so we signed in another race (IRRC with all IL-4 including a bunch of S 1000RR) to get more tracktime.
I will come back with the full story, here the quick benchmarks:
Harald Kitsch Erik-Buell-Racing 1190 RR-B Sound of Thunder
Saturday - Q1 Sound of Thunder Poleposition - Q1 IRRC 2nd - Q2 Sound of Thunder black flag for noise - Modification of exhaust (dB eater) - Q3 Sound of Thunder black flag for noise - Modification of exhaust (double dB eater) - Q2 IRRC 2nd - IRRC race fastest lap of the event over all, finished 3rd after got blocked by an rider at the overlapping (understand that I had not hugged him if he got down one day before the Sound of Thunderrace where we fight for the Championship)
Than I personal made a Autobahntest with the new VW Golf (thanks Hertz)to pick up our Assen lownoise Exhaustsystem, 900 km in 6h... nice car, that 1.2 liter fuel directinjectionturboengine runs nice, but have an electronic shutter at 200 km/h, what really ruin the performance (-: Also the fuelconsumption with 17Liter / 100 Km requires a bigger fueltank, this 3 fuelstops took so much time....
Sunday -Warm up unidentified Enginenoise (A-Bike RIP) -Weather is turning over the day from rain to sun quarterly, our start: 18.20! -Decission to go on slicks when the first raindrops came down again -Harald pull with the 1190 RR B-Bike from the first meter like crazy, try to get meters, meanwhile the field stay together wondering if raindrops on the helmet means that there could be also some wetness on the track... While they think, Harald go on lap 2 a laptime nearby his besttime,laying at the end a half lap distance between him and the followers. Some minutes later it starts really to rain. He is still going fast but have now any time he need to ride save. After 50% of the distance racecontrol stop the race. Another Pegasusraceteam victory for Harald Kitsch and the Erik Buell Racing 1190 RR-B
Robin Taborsky Buell XBR, Pro BEARS
Saturday
Q1 Pro BEARS 2nd Q2 Pro BEARS poleposition Q3 down after trying to fight back his lost pole
Sunday Warm up, all good, sorry just dont have the result
He picked the last race of the weekend. And now it starts to rain like judgement day...
A good moment for the, related to the competitors underpowered Buell. i asked how many experience you have with raintyres, Robin: not one inch! Wonderful to find that out 5 minites left for the start. So we had a speak about these guys who feel so comfortbabel on raintyres at the first time that they crash the bike after 10 laps, leading the field till they find out that also raintyres have that end of grip problem...
Robin started not great, but fight back to the front diectly in the first turns and was going wih the leaders (what I told him -what they do you also can do.... trust me).
It was wonderful to watch him running quickly on 3rd. In the last lap a Triumph Streettriple was going over and it was to see that it was not a real problem to fight back. He havent done it because he try to finish the race save and misunderstand that this was a Pro Thunderrider (both classes Pro BEARS and Pro Thunder race together). He was sure that he got another podium (IN HIS FIRST WETRACE EVER) and he was totally disappointed after he found out that he got 4th. The team was super happy with the result and he got a hard time by comments like: that YOU explain your ol´man, we give you now a lesson with pictures of your competitors or print a poster with the silhouettes of their bikes like they do it at the military with the aircrafts or ships of the combattants.
I think we never had so big laughs after finished 4th... maybe it was also for all of us a great ventile after a weekend under really great pressure.
So all is ready now for the big celebration in October, maybe the biggest Buellevent in Europe since years, with Racing, Buell Custombikeshow and Erik at the german Biketoberfest. Here is the programm:
