After the Pegasus Race Team and rider Harald Kitsch won with the brand new EBR 1190 RR-B the 2010 Sound of Thunder Championship, the Team was looking for a new challenge. Together with the at Wolfsburg/Germany located Automotive Design- and Development company Gruner Engineering, they realised based on the 185 HP Erik Buell Racing Superbike the prototype of an radical naked bike. “Our idea was with our years of experience in Buell racing to concept the ultimate Streetfighter with outstanding performance and a unique design” said Team Manager Jens Krüper. The result was a study which have in fact, control blades and air splitters to lead, at possible top speeds beyond 250 km / h, the air masses around the fork and frame. While the rider got a more minimalized frontscreen in the size of the old Buell S1 bikes. Heiko Jessat, project manager at Gruner Engineering: ” To combinate a cool minimized Look with real good aerodynamics is a real challenge, especially if something is so powerful as that EBR Superbike”. Which, except for the EBR racing exhaust system, with its adjustable clip-ons, the digital cockpit, and other fine parts, ready to go for the public roads. A look on the details give the impression of a motorcycle in very advanced stage of the project. Thomas Wanner, owner of Pegasus Race teams from Switzerland, is very satisfied with the result, “We now consider what spin-offs we gain from the Typhon study, there will be coming first some parts to rebuild the Buell XB models and 1125R/CR, but further thinking is explicitly not excluded.” Erik Buell’s statement about the 1190 Typhon: “EBR is working intensely right now on getting the new 1190RS Superbike model ready for production, which is consuming all our resources. We had been talking with our friends at Pegasus about our plans for a streetfighter model that would follow the 1190RS, and mentioning we could not work on it at this time. Pegasus asked if they could build a concept model to show, so we sent many CAD models over for them and our friends at Gruner to use to speed up the design process. They did a great job in a very short time!” Pegasus Race Team is the only team outside the U.S. that race the Erik Buell Racing 1190 RR-B Superbikes. With rider Harald Kitsch the Team will compete 2011 in the Art Motor SBK open against the Superbikes, youngster Robin Taborsky will start in the revutalized BEARS -a competition of high-end bikes from Europe and USA. Gruner is an engineering services company in the automotive industry with a focus on concept, design, engineering and prototyping. Team and bike is still present until 5th of December at the German Essen Motor Show in Building 6, Stand 101 Technical information: Erik Buell Racing 1190 Typhon Aluminium frame with integrated fuel tank and aluminium swingarm Watercooled 1190 ccm V 2 Rotaxmotor 185 HP / 11.500 U/min (rpm) Weight 161 Kg (355 pounds), ready without fuel