Leno recieves '09 GSXR1000

[Dave]

Woot!

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Dave

Woot!

[101lifts2]

Originally Posted by tached1000rr

Here's my beef, Jay Leno can afford to buy his bike, Suzuki should review their records for that loyal repeat buying "average guy" and give him a damn bike.

Life is not fair, I accepted that a long time ago, but Michael Jordan walks into a restaurant and his meal is on the house, same for a movie, and some ballgame. When do stars/icons actually have to spend their own money?

Look deeper home boy. Its cheap advertising for Suzuki. Prolly costs 4k to build one of these and that is cheap for Leno to advertise.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by 101lifts2

Look deeper home boy. Its cheap advertising for Suzuki. Prolly costs 4k to build one of these and that is cheap for Leno to advertise.

You know thats a fact.

[101lifts2]

Originally Posted by marko138

You know thats a fact.

The 4k? LOL...Well if the dealer invoice is around 8500..I would say yes about 4-5K. Anyway cheap advertising.

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

They are racing a V2 1000 cc bike against 600 cc I4s so yes, they do belong on this list for now anyway. I hear what you are saying and I agree that Aprillia is better than Buell or Ducati in that respect. I still give the most props to BMW. They are a huge corporation and I believe were a sponsor at one time. They probably could have managed to muscle their way in with a 1200+ cc boxer engined bike if they had wanted to but they chose to build a bike that would be competitive without having a 40+% cc advantage written into the rulebook.

While I make fun of it myself.. Buell is running a stock engined bike against race machines.

You can take that any way you see it. But, a company of less than 200 people (including receptionists, mail clerks etc) is doing their best to run against companies that have hundreds of thousands of employees and countless millions of dollars of development.

Besides, back when Nickey won ama in 2002(?). i4s were restricted, and the twins had an advantage. Soooo a huge corporation with limitless money had restrictions in place to help them run. Why not Buell?

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Tmall

While I make fun of it myself.. Buell is running a stock engined bike against race machines.

You can take that any way you see it. But, a company of less than 200 people (including receptionists, mail clerks etc) is doing their best to run against companies that have hundreds of thousands of employees and countless millions of dollars of development.

Besides, back when Nickey won ama in 2002(?). i4s were restricted, and the twins had an advantage. Soooo a huge corporation with limitless money had restrictions in place to help them run. Why not Buell?

I've never understood the knock on Buell. I really don't. Anyone who knows Erik's story and struggle to become what he has today should love this guy.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Tmall

While I make fun of it myself.. Buell is running a stock engined bike against race machines.

You can take that any way you see it. But, a company of less than 200 people (including receptionists, mail clerks etc) is doing their best to run against companies that have hundreds of thousands of employees and countless millions of dollars of development.

Besides, back when Nickey won ama in 2002(?). i4s were restricted, and the twins had an advantage. Soooo a huge corporation with limitless money had restrictions in place to help them run. Why not Buell?

so they should be allowed to play with special rules because noone works there?

[Tmall]

Originally Posted by Dave

so they should be allowed to play with special rules because noone works there?

That is EXACTLY what I said....
Or you could have read what I wrote and realized that they made concessions so a billion dollar company could compete. So, why not a much smaller company?

I'm not overly defending them. I'd like to see them running with like displacment bikes, but is what it is. And if you don't like it, change the channel or found your own race org.

[RACER X]

i've met Eric Buell 1x, he used to build bicycles before m/c's