The Buell Motorcycle Company is an American motorcycle manufacturer based in East Troy, Wisconsin and founded by ex-Harley-Davidson engineer Erik Buell. The company first partnered with Harley-Davidson in 1993, and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harley by 2003. On November 17, 2006, Buell announced that it had produced and shipped its 100,000th motorcycle.
History
The first Buell motorcycle, the RW750, was built in 1983 purely for competing in the AMA Formula 1 motorcycle road racing championship. At that time, Erik Buell was a top contending privateer motorcycle racer. After completion of the first two RW750 racing machines, one of which was sold to another racing team, the Formula 1 series was cancelled. Buell then turned his focus towards racing-inspired, street-going machines using engines manufactured by Harley. In 1993, Harley-Davidson Incorporated joined in partnership with Buell Motor Company as a 49% stakeholding minority partner and the company formed was renamed “Buell Motorcycle Company”. In 1998 Harley purchased majority control of Buell, and it has been a subsidiary ever since. Since then, Buell has used modified Harley-Davidson Sportster engines to power its motorcycles.
QLINK’s Legacy 250 is powered by a lightweight, 244cc, 4-stroke, liquid-cooled engine. Despite its entry-level price tag of US$3,250, this bike has many features of a much more expensive machine.
Let’s start with the liquid-cooled engine, which can aid reliability, is a feature not normally found on a bike in this price range. Comparable bikes such as the Honda Rebel, Honda Nighthawk, Yamaha VStar 250 and Suzuki GZ250 don’t have it.
Another feature of the Legacy is the front and rear disc brakes. Though disc brakes on a 244cc bike might not be mandatory, they will certainly give the newbie a little more confidence while stopping than drum brakes. The Rebel, VStar 250 and GZ250 have disc brakes up front and mechanical drums in the rear, while the Nighthawk uses drums up front and in the rear.
An array of creature comforts is also included on the Legacy, including a built-in audio system with FM radio and USB port. Located under the seat, the USB port allows the rider to play downloaded music on an iPod, MP3 player or memory stick. Controls for the audio system are located right below the handlebars.
Currently there are only a few models of bikes with motorcycle antilock brakes and no antilock braking system that retrofits on most existing motorcycles. A big part of the issue with a retrofit motorcycle ABS is that there would have to be dozens of versions made to fit the numerous different makes and models of motorcycles.
The cost to design and engineer all of these ABS versions would obviously be extremely expensive. The cost to the rider to get a retro-fit antilock motorcycle brakes would most likely cost $2,000 plus. Although motorcycle anti lock brakes would carry a lot of value, the high price would affect the number of antilock systems sold and subsequently make it a difficult for any company to justify bringing a retrofit motorcycle antilock brake system to market. Read more…
The Crocker Motorcycle Company was an American manufacturer of single-cylinder speedway racing motorcycles from 1932, powerful V-twin road motorcycles from 1936, and the “Scootabout,” one of the first modern styled motor scooters, in the late 1930s. Production ceased in 1942.
In 1999 a new corporation was formed to manufacture replica parts, and now produces complete Crockers in kit form, following the original specifications.
Sokół 1000 (also known as CWS 1000 and M 111) was the heaviest Polish pre-war motorcycle manufactured by the PZInż works, both for civilian and military use in the Polish Army.
History
In late 1927 the Polish Army created a specification for a general purpose heavy motorcycle that was to replace the Harley-Davidson motorcycles used by then. By 1932 the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe works prepared a short series of roughly 200 CWS M55 motorcycles equipped with a sidecar. Although heavily-based on American designs (the bike itself was based upon Harley-Davidson, while the engine was almost a direct copy of Indian), the machine proved to be unreliable.
The Buell Motorcycle Company is an American motorcycle manufacturer based in East Troy, Wisconsin and founded by ex-Harley-Davidson engineer Erik Buell. The company first partnered with Harley-Davidson in 1993, and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harley by 2003. On November 17, 2006, Buell announced that it had produced and shipped its 100,000th motorcycle.
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