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Do it. When the bike is no longer in production and you have one, it will be one of the most unique bikes you own, regardless of what else is in your garage. Even more unique and interesting than your SL, I wager. Only other thing in the running would be a Vyrus 986 M2 or 987 C3 4V, but the Tesi will always be the original design.
Sorry for the derailment fellas, I just want to see Jello get one of these fancy Bimotas too. Living my dream, he is.
Ok.... Now you have my attention..... Hmmmm.....
300hp...Wow... I can't even imagine what this is going to feel like. I am on the fence on this one. I don't know if I like it yet or not.
The rear is horrible, otherwise... Hmmmm...
Damn it. I do I need another bike....
You could swap for a slipper clutch easy.... maybe swap in a S4RS motor too....
Damn you rich people! That living vicariously thing just doesn't do it for me
Back to the thread topic, this view of H2R at the unveiling makes it look quite compact. I bet this thing looks much better in person. I really wonder what the road-going H2 is going to look like in normal bodywork and street-legal exhaust. They say this track-only carbon fiber monster is going to cost Superleggera money, so I wonder what the H2 will cost. And Christ, please offer it in something other than that nasty green.
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MCN says that the road-going H2 will be reduced around 80hp from this H2R. Of course, they did predict that it would have a beam-type frame and NOT a trellis, even though they knew about the trellis frame in the recent Kwak patent filings.
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An 80 HP reduction sounds probable, and yet it still surpasses anything else on the market. I'm sure the power delivery on a supercharged sportbike, even at 220-225 HP, is going to be unlike anything most riders have experienced. If the reduction is primarily due to an electronic governor, I don't imagine it will be too difficult to unleash the restricted ponies.
Sounds reasonable. Why restrict it at all from the H2R? And why so much? The Japanese mindset is just strange to me.
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I suspect they are concerned about provoking regulation. So introduce something that is a clearly ahead of others, but not too far ahead on paper to raise drama and the ire of regulators.
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this thing is WICKED
Am I seeing the right pics???
The track bike has no lower fairing or catch pan? Is this the first time these engineers have made a bike? All newbs or something? Or is this for novice/C group only? Makes about as much sense as the R or SL coming without a pan.
The track bike has no lower fairing or catch pan? Is this the first time these engineers have made a bike? All newbs or something? Or is this for novice/C group only? Makes about as much sense as the R or SL coming without a pan.
Most tracks I've been to don't require a fluid retention pan for track days, just for sanctioned racing. Since this bike won't qualify for any current racing series, there's not a need for one. Maybe it's also related to cooling, as someone previously mentioned, 300 hp is going to generate some serious heat - even for us hardened Panigale people
You're probably right, since there was a lot of scuttlebutt about Kawasaki breaking the "gentlemen's" agreement among the Japanese OEMs to not have a product that exceeds the 300 km/hr capability. With this 2 product strategy, they have their cake and eat it too: The H2R is track-only so has the max HP and will certainly exceed 200 mph, and the H2 is street only, with less hp and probably some electronic limiter to keep it at 300 km/hr. But damn it will certainly get there quickly.
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It will be interesting to see whether the street-able H2 will feature lower fairings and a belly pan. Considering the extensive wind tunnel testing and attention to aero qualities that went into the development of the bike's bodywork, the fact that the H2R is not not equipped with lower fairings should allude to the immense amount of heat this engine is capable of generating.
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