VOLUME 57 ISSUE 3 JANUARY 21, 2020 P33
EBR 1190 Race Bikes Up for
Sale in Sweden
I
f you've ever wanted to own a
real EBR factory-prepped race
bike, you're in luck. NCCR in
Sweden is in possession of eight
EBR 1190 race bikes, ridden by
the likes of Larry Pegram and
Niccolo Canepa in WorldSBK, to
Mark Miller's TT bike and Cory
West's and Shelina Moreda's Pan
Delta machines raced in the Chi-
nese Superbike Championship.
NCCR ran the Erik Buell
Racing (EBR) team between
2009-2011 under the Pegasus
Race Team banner, with Splitlath
Motorsports running Miller's
and Moreda's EBR machines,
and taking over the reins of the
EBR racing division from 2015
onwards.
The machines Larry Pegram,
Aaron Yates and Geoff May
raced in the WorldSBK Cham-
pionship were wrapped in Hero
Motorcycles colors, as at the
time the Indian company had
teamed up with Erik Buell. It was
a partnership that would ulti-
mately come to naught and bring
about the closure (one of a few)
of EBR.
"All bikes are full factory race
specification with all original
parts fitted at the factory in East
Troy by Chief Mechanic Tony
Pogue under the personal direc-
tion of Erik Buell himself, the
engines were all built by Shane
Myers to Erik's specifications,"
said Splitlath Motorsports' John
Dimblow. "All maintenance over
the entire life of the bikes has
been carried out by Tony Pogue
alone, no one else has been al-
lowed to touch the bikes."
The website for the bikes may
be in Swedish, but the descrip-
tions are in English. The bikes
these days would make an
amazing club racer, especially
in the AHRMA Twins series.
Prices start $39,000, with the
WorldSBK-spec machines going
for about $50K.
Shelina Moreda wrote a piece
for Cycle News on her time rac-
ing in the Chinese series on the
EBR back in 2017. Check out
her feature "An American Girl In
China." CN
Want to have a
rather exotic EBR
WorldSBK racer for
your collection?
Now you can!
