H2

[David W]

Good for you.  In my opinion the Fireblade pissed all over every ZX9 ever built, at least as a Sportsbike.  Faster, lighter and better handling.  Only thing I could maybe see a ZX9 doing better is two-up touring.

Between the lot I used to ride with we had the last of the old shape blades, a 929 and C/E/F ZX9's - I rode them all and there was little between them. Most of the road test's at the time came to the same conclusion.

Have you ridden all these bikes?

Most of them.

[Bullet]

If you lads are done arguing    

PICS!!

http://www.bikeland.org/story.php?storyID=76855

leaked a touch early unsurprisingly, like they always do!

[m6rk]

[Gobert]

It's not that bad...........

[monkeyb0b]

Its kinda busy isn't it ...

[Gobert]

It's different but then it's sort of what I expected from Kawasaki.

[monkeyb0b]

Well its announced and they are saying 296bhp in a track version and 200bhp in the road version

[MOzZereLLa]

New S1RR will be 200BHP.

Be interesting to see what lights, indicators and a reg plate do to it.

I'm very interested to know if it will race in Superbikes.

[Alzo]

We need electronics to control the 193bhp in the current S1000rr...with road bikes and our Speed camera and Mobile camera Laden roads less is more...a 100bhp Street Triple will put more smiles on the masses than any of these bikes...the H2 is missing the point.

[komp]

We need electronics to control the 193bhp in the current S1000rr...with roads bike and our Speed camera and Mobile camera Laden roads less is more...a 100bhp Street Triple will put more smiles on the masses than any of these bikes...the H2 is missing the point.

tend to agree,  but cant help thinking its a gimic bike, a technical exercise so to speak
surely they don't expect to shift that many of them?
sports bike sales are already in decline, I don't think more power is the way forward!

[monkeyb0b]

Things like this tend to run down model lines so perhaps this a technical exercise that will appear on other models over the years

Will be interested to see what else it adds when the s1000r is kicking out similar figures. Should we expect big gaps in services and 65mpg?

[Bullet]

other than the silly wings I rather like it actually    Admittedly I'd have liked it more if it was making 1000cc superbike power from a much smaller engine with higher mpg like I was expecting. 

[Gilby104]

Agreed there is not necessarily a need for faster road bikes but the concept of making more power from an engine to you can decrease engine size / weight / consumption to make all bikes better is exciting.

Bike looks ugly.... but I like it.

[0luke0]

I like the clocks on it, better than the ZX10 ones

[Alzo]

This small engine high power notion is also flawed...has anyone driven these latest engined cars...the lack of torque is horrendous and they need thrashed....daily ownership must be tedious...we could end up with 2 stroke power characteristics from 4 stroke engines...as a fan of triple engines I'll have the torque...and you can stick your 296bhp Bar figure up your ass.