Buell Motorcycle Company will be halting production at their East Troy factory in Wisconsin for two months. The facility will close on October 30th and reopen on January 4th. Buell recently won their first AMA road racing championship. Danny Eslick took the 2009 Daytona SportBike championship on a Buell 1125R over Josh Herrin in the final round of the championship at the New Jersey Motorsports Park.
Buell is a subsidiary of Harley-Davidson which has closed down several plants permanently and others temporarily. The good news for H-D is that they recently completed negotiations that will see them selling their bikes in India in 2010. India’s economy is growing, and they are the second largest bike market in the world behind China.