That would be nice. Erik building bikes again is all I want to see. I don't even care if they are strictly race bikes while he builds a name for them and may be five or ten years down the road start manufacturing. We need an American superbike.
I hope this happens, would be cool to see and all new motor like the one their using in the156 Project with Roland Sands.
http://www.autoevolution.com/news/po...ing-95718.html
That would be nice. Erik building bikes again is all I want to see. I don't even care if they are strictly race bikes while he builds a name for them and may be five or ten years down the road start manufacturing. We need an American superbike.
If you compare photos, the motor appears to be based on the one in the current Indian Scout, which seems to be a pretty good engine. It would be cool to see Victory build a street legal flat tracker or standard similar to this bike.
Too bad somebody can't show up at Pike's Peak with a race prepped EBR 1190SX. I'd love to see how it would compare to this thing. A guy on a modified Buell 1125CR (with EBR 1190 kit installed) came in SECOND a couple of years ago despite the fact that he dropped the bike in a turn half way up, had to pick it up, and continue.
Polaris also just bought brammo not too long ago. They are branching out with serious intentions. It could happen.
There is a dealer in Ozark that sells Victory. They pulled all the Brammo's out. He knows of a motor in the works within Polaris that is a twin that will smoke anything around. He believes they are using the Brammo frame and all that design to put this thing in it. So the rumor goes anyway.
I wonder if that motor is made in Wisconsin :p
just so long as we have buells again.
let's set the record straight here. Florin Tibu authored that article and he sux. this isn't the first time he lit off the internet rumor mills with wild-assed speculation with no basis other than hunches. guy is a butt-hole.
from an industry insider who knows these things well....here's the real story:
1- polaris will NEVER EVER resurrect EBR. one manufacturer does not come to the aid of another fallen manufacturer to bail them out and resurrect prior competition. not even logical. do not confuse this with gobbling up table scraps and bail-outs.
2-the folks at the helm of the polaris ship are incredibly smart. they see themselves as a V-twin company and do find a few of buell/ebr components and tech appealing to them.
3-polaris will never enter the "sportbike/rice-rocket" world. never. market incredibly saturated. what they are eyeing up is a type of standard and/or adventure bike. the adventure bike incredibly popular and continues to see growth and will for the forseeable next 10 year product cycle. polaris insiders believe there is healthy demand for a top quality competitively priced bike along the lines of the V-strom 1000 but with quality improvements and better componentry. they see table scraps from EBR demise entering into the picture as both upper mid-west companies.
that's all there is to it.