DevilStars Club Buell Italia

Palmer:

Boy am I in trouble on both sides of the Atlantic.

First I post about 1,000 words for you to translate, look at the clock and see it's nearly midnight in Rome. My wife, the feisty Italian gal, smacked me upside the head and said "what do you think you're doing?".

Then I have Aunt Mary translating (and she's crying she's so happy to be reading Italian) and she gets to the part about her being 92. Well, I was wrong, she's turning 90 and tells me that she's "young for her age". She also pointed out that she came to America at 7, not 11.

By mid-week there won't be an Italian on either side of the pond that's not mad at me.



I'll get you some information on the hubless wheel and some good photos.

Note that the front and rear wheels appear quite different.

On a motorcycle the front and rear wheels "see" very different types of forces. An optimal design, for both wheels, will therefore always be different. When you see matching front and rear wheels you are looking at an engineering compromise to meet a marketing goal . . . aesthetics.

The folks at EBR were tasked with designing the best motorcycle they could. The idea of compromising on the lightest wheels ever put on a motorcycle in history, just to make them look the same, was unacceptable.

I'll be seeing Erik in the next few days and will get more detailed information so that I can explain the hubless design. The "big picture" is that the hub sees nearly no load with the ZTL2 braking system and does not, therefore, need to have all the structure, and mass, of a conventional system that has tremendous braking forces passing from the tire to the wheel to the spokes to the hub to the rotor to the caliper. The ZTL takes the spokes and hub out of that equation.

I'll get more detailed information for you. I'll also get some good fotos of the 1190RS race bike (which is IDENTICAL to the street bike) at Mid-Ohio this next weekend. If you would like I can try to post live updates here from the track.

Ciao,
Court

Quoto il Peo,mi è scesa una lacrimuccia nonostante i miei 45 anni!

Non rispecchiano le Buell che vorrei però va bene così e mi fa piacere vedere che si sono dati una mossa per far si che cio che ha fatto zio Erik non vada vanificato.

Questo è certo, l'HD è l'anti-Buell, HD killed the Buell star, non dimentichiamolo.
Ma EBR con le sue proposte attuali per me purtroppo non è una possibile alternativa a ciò che fu la Buell.
Proprio no, neanche sforzandomi, nemmeno se al mondo esistessero solo il vecchio Erik e le 4 jap.

notizie fresche in arrivo ?