| | | | Road / Track test: 2008 Buell 1125R production launch – Fit for fight |  Written: 14/03/2008 : 12:32. Read 4298 times (77/day). | | The integrality of this filed article is for Premium Members. | The 1125R is fundamentally the same as when I rode it at Laguna Seca last year. However, some genuine improvements have been made to the production bike. Better fuel injection is the important one. The 1125R is a beast of torque!
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Whilst chewing on something that could have been last nights kill at the local Spanish bull ring, I contemplate what sort of beast the Buell 1125R is. Not long ago I watched the brilliant film “There will be blood” based on the book called “Oil!” from 1937. There’s no oil in the 1125R swingarm as in other Buell’s, but there will be blood if Buell doesn’t get the marketing and packaging right for the 1125R soon. Daniel Day Lewis character in the film doesn’t take criticism lightly and Buell has had to put up with a lot of pure shite on the 1125R coverage so far. Certain people play the Matador against the 1125R and we know that this is not fair. Perhaps Buell should launch at Pamplona next year…
But not all is unjustified, the fuel injection needed improvements and that heat shield on the right hand side of the engine does help and makes it a lot better than the air-cooled models. In my opinion there never was anything major wrong with the 1125R on the racetrack, it’s on the road the problems started.
The 1125cc V72 pulls like Ferdinand the Ox from as low as 4.000rpm and feels more powerful than other superbike V-twins in the next 3.000rpms. In a nutshell this is what makes the 1125R so much fun to ride both on track and road.
The changes made to the 1125R since I last rode it in California involves improved fuel injection and throttle response, tweaked suspension and a new heat shield on the right hand side of the engine.
One of the things that I remember the most about the fuelling was doing a few first gear wheelies downhill in the Laguna Seca area last year. They didn’t come that easy as the fuelling made them a bit unpredictable. Wheelies definitely are good for something when testing a bike. One of the very first things that I did on my rendezvous with the 1125R in Spain was to give it some throttle in first on cold tyres and the front just rose predictably and smoothly. That’s improvement for you and despite the fact that it’s still not perfect, hardly any oversized performance V-twin are. Through town I still noticed something I didn’t like too much, but I could easily ride it without nervously ...
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