Maybe there is an easy hp to be got from that. Not that I could ever use that, but nice to know. You have to figure, though, the Ducati must be more on the bleeding edge to be pushing those numbers so the ultimate potential of each should tilt toward the Kawasaki, on displacement alone, if nothing else.
Not many years ago, to control this kind of power your name had to be Kenny Roberts or Mike Hailwood. Now, anyone with the money can walk off the street and ride it away with every expectation of getting back home. Since the beginning of motorcycles, the argument has raged over how much is too much.
The issue never will be settled, but this machine is sure to add fuel to the flames. But it is a technological toure de force. That kind of power from 1. You can go too fast on almost anything, wearing nothing more than a bikini. The big question is if you crash or not. If anything this Kwak is easy to ride,stable and predictable.
Back in the day BMW volunteered a hp limit, that was a joke, look at them today. In my opinion you can only do so much to guard your product against idiots. Well, I was just thinking about this very subject earlier today, how much is to much? In past when you wanted this kind of power, you had to build it yourself. This kept a lot of people away from powerful machines. But now you can get far more powerful machines, that are reliable, from several manufacturers, with a warranty.
These even factory trained technician s to help you keep it on the road. These days all it takes is deep pockets to play speed racer. All that power is nice, but my question is how does it handle?
Is it just a straight line rocket or can you rip up some corners too? Jim, thinking about your point of the unprepared kid with the less prepared GF, may I pass on a true happening? I was on the operating table, awake, having my second knee replacement done.
I went on about risk and how if you were going to engage in that type of riding, how the leathers saved your hide, etc. About 50 hoursepower for a cc single?
Now yer talkin! FZR has not beein in production for a loooong time. Are you talking about moto3 spec bike??? BobC Pro Posts: For comparison, the best figure I have seen for a standard Hayabusa is bhp. That's real horse power, not "pub talk" horse power. It's going to vary from bike to bike and dyno' to dyno. Seems like is a ball-park figure. I assume there is no ram-air effect on most dyno's.
Posts: Mine was No way when the crank is I've had 2 of them and both were the same Maybe the CDN bikes are lower from factory. Gary B Expert Class Posts: Very strong bike! Drowland Zone Head Posts: With stage one cams, Brocks pipe, PC3 it made hp and foot pounds torque.
Ambient temp, temp of the bike, break in process, dyno, whoes dynoing, elevation,ect. All I know is the zx and the Busa are two bad ass bikes and demand respect all day!!
Then there's Horex's triple-overhead camshaft VR6 , which is yet to begin production. It's claims of more than bhp are believable given that it is powered by a supercharged cc six cylinder engine. The bike was an instant classic the moment it first appeared at Koln Motorcycle Show this time last last year - a masterpiece of design and mechanical ingenuity that, IMHO, richly deserves success.
It's an unknown quantity still, bat has as much right to make such claims as Kawasaki. Ducati's bhp Desmosedici Racing Replica had a limited run of 1, motorcycles and sold out before production. The entire unit allocation for the United States sold out in five hours.
One of the most intricate motorcycles ever assembled in this number, the The bike has not been produced again, and with results not running Ducati's way at the moment, the company's efforts seem to have been focused on the upcoming Panigale twin cylinder road bike , which has the intoxicating raw numbers of weighing kg lb wet and producing bhp. When the production bikes get here, we'll know.
One thing's for sure though - the Ducati will be very close to the ZX14R, despite being a different genre of motorcycle. As the legendary Colin Chapman was famous for saying, "adding power makes you faster on the straights - subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere. Now, some of those aforementioned mega-beasties are limited edition models, and there's also an even more powerful set of VERY limited edition models with claims to more than bhp.
We might have missed one or two let us know and we'll add them to the article , but they include:. It produces a monolithic foot-pounds It's based on a production bike the ZX10R , but I'm not sure if it can be classified as a production bike. Several others fall into this category of adding forced aspiration to existing production engines to achieve phenomenal horsepower figures, and then wrapping the engine in an exotic frame and the finest aftermarket go-fast and look-good bits and charging a king's ransom to own one.
It uses a Suzuki gixxer motor with a blower and will be featured in depth on Gizmag shortly. It is not yet in production, though there is a prototype. You can download the brochure here. Both are in production, though the Ecosse's price and extraordinary specifications indicate a fair wait, as the bike sports the world's first all-titanium frame and the cc polished billet aluminum v-twin donk is made in the same factory.
The there's MotoGP-spec Ohlins suspension at each end, and radially-mounted 6-pot billet ISR front brake calipers 12 individual brake pads and the price If you want to insure one, might we suggest a reputable bookmaker.
For the sake of this article, we'll presume that by production, Kawasaki is talking about readily available motorcycles from a relatively local dealership. Yamaha's V-MAX has had many claimed figures on its horsepower output since it was first announced, but the Suzuki Hayabusa is unquestionably the bike that appears most likely to stand between Kawasaki and its claims for the ZXR. Verification of the claims in relation to the Hayabusa can be had in the form of an article written by nine-time World Champion Motorcycle drag racer Rickey Gadson , who ran the bike through the quarter mile at 9.
That puts it well ahead - about half a second behind the Suzuki Hayabusa over a quarter mile according to Gadson's own figures. On the strength of Gadson's reflections, the claims appear genuine.
Two-stroke engine technology produced immense power, but spewed hydrocarbons into the atmosphere at an alarming rate. Built in an era before we realized what we were doing to the environment, Kawasaki built its reputation for horsepower with the Kawasaki H1 Mach III cc three-cylinder, air-cooled two-stroke. I had such fond memories of the H1 that a few years ago, while I was building a motorcycle collection, I purchased a mint-condition H1 and restored it to absolutely original.
I rode it around the block a few times, but its speed was just not as awesome as it had been in the day, as I'd updated my frame of reference by riding bikes developed decades later. It was also an ecological disaster, had drum brakes, agricultural suspension, and just wasn't all that much fun. It's interesting that the H1 was the fastest thing on two wheels just over 40 years ago with just 60 bhp.
Honda's four of might have been the king of the road, with its civilized manners and longevity and broad usable power, but the CB couldn't hope to compete against the Mach IV for performance. Kawasaki is very unlike the other members of Japan's big four motorcycle manufacturers. Its roots are in heavy industrial and military machinery. Its factories are still staffed by thousands of people wearing the same green-grey uniforms they have worn for most of the last century.
The company is vast, with many divisions producing quite diverse technological systems: the Shinkansen Bullet train , entire energy plants, giant ships, jet engines, tractors, a range of military aircraft, helicopters, simulators, missiles, robots and space systems are just some of the genres of complex machinery that wear the Kawasaki name.
Most of the things Kawasaki builds are not seen as Kawasaki product by the public though because they are not branded. Hence, as the primary outward facing brand wearing the Kawasaki logo, the motorcycle company is required to reflect the company's brand values to the public. Once the Honda had ushered in a new era of motorcycling, Kawasaki responded with the Z1 four-cylinder cc four-stroke, completely redefining the limits of what was possible.
Every few years since, the company has gone out of its way to produce the fastest road bike on the market. Verification of this thought pattern in Akashi can be evidenced in the company's other "outward facing" showing of the Kawasaki brand, the Personal Water Craft PWC marketplace. Kawasaki pioneered this marketplace in the mid-seventies and the company's proprietary brand name Jet Ski is still synonymous with PWC to most folk.
Sea Doo might own the category, and sell a lot more units, but it hasn't stopped Kawasaki from spanking them from time to time, in exactly the same way as the motorcycle division had done to the rest of the world's manufacturers. The Kawasaki's Ultra X was a landmark model. The bhp Jet Ski eclipsed all before it in a similar evolution of the PWC to what we've seen in the motorcycle market from Kawasaki. Quite remarkably, the old ZX14 motor forms the basis for the cc supercharged Kawasaki motor in the Ultra X, so presumably the next version of the X will use the same motor too.
The needs of a PWC motor are quite different from those of a motorcycle - for starters, the engine is routinely subjected to long periods of sustained full throttle, far longer than you'd get with a motorcycle, and also from the very get-go to its top speed of 65 mph.
That the strength is there to sustain such punishment should be very comforting to Kawasaki motorcycle owners too.
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