Kawasaki H2 roadbike

[duke63]

£25k for the roadbike. Weight looks a bit on the hefty side.







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[C00kiemonster]

No thanks.

[Kwacky]

Why is a small car attached to the right rear?

[D6]

Not keen on it looking like that (road trim)

[Kwacky]

I would be tempted to rip the front fairing off and have it as a naked.

[Monty]

I would be temped to redesign it completely.

[Blade]

What Monty says

[Kwacky]

The tank, frame, tail and swingarm all look good.

That can would have to go, know doubt knocking off about 40kg. The front fairing doesn't work for me as a road bike.

[edd1e]

No thanks...

[Blade]

Its just not a coherent design and apart from a supercharger I just can't see anything special and tbh I don't see that as that special.

Each to there own but would rather own a zx10r personally.

[Kwacky]

If you click on the MCN link it lists all the new stuff on there.

I'm repeating myself but I think this is a design project and we'll see some of the stuff they've developed appear on their more regular bikes.

[C00kiemonster]

Supercharger on a ninja 400 and I'm in

[Blade]

If you click on the MCN link it lists all the new stuff on there.

I'm repeating myself but I think this is a design project and we'll see some of the stuff they've developed appear on their more regular bikes.

I know what your saying and all though the tech spec is impressive its par for the course these days on 2015 sportsbikes, aka 1299, R1, S1000RR etc... The only thing that seperates it as special is the supercharger IMO.

I agree its a project and like you hope the tech is past onto other models especially a lightweight ninja 400 or 600 as that would be truly mind blowing (excuse the pun). The litre class don't need extra power but I guess as a project and pr exercise the 1000cc and 296 bhp gets people attention which I think is perhaps the main point.

[Kwacky]

I suspect that people were expecting a Kwak version of a production MotoGP bike or soomething like the zx10r with a supercharger. This bike isn't one you can associate with a current type of bike. The weight alone means it's not going to be competitive with the current litre bikes, with or without the supercharger.

I see it more of a modern Yamaha TRX850 than a sportsbike.

[DaytonAndy]

Shhh, it'll hear you.

[kiwikrasher]

Batman would like it... But I don't.

[Blade]

I admit I was expecting a motogp type bike or a supercharged zx10.

[Deegee]

I'm going to fly in the face of popular opinion and say I like the front, it's a mixture of the front of a1950's Cadillac and Darth Vader's face mask (both of which make it cool), I also like the badge that says "Supercharged" and the dash, the rest isn't doing it for me.
Wtf they think they're doing with that exhaust I have no idea, I always thought the ridiculous can that Aprilia fitted to the RSV4 was biggest daftest can ever seen, but even the new R1's can looks small compared to Kawasaki's offering on the H2 road offering. I'm sure somewhere a family car had to die to get the steel for that.

[duke63]

Don't Kawasaki put the cat converters in the end can? That way if you change the can, you lose the cat.

[C00kiemonster]

Jay Leno has both of them here....
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAo0LWQ ... e=youtu.be[/video]

Can't seem to add a direct YouTube vid on tapatalk so linky above...