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H2R First Laps
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I think I just soiled myself....
Wow, the anti-wheelie makes the supercharger sound awesome at 200km/h coming out of a corner and the front lifts into the air! Almost sounds like a rally car on quick downshift blips 
Shaman
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Meh. The pull over 250 is impressive, but up until that it's just throwing power away to keep the bike from chucking a mental, and I doubt it's any quicker than an everyday liter bike. For the way I ride a bike, it's really not that compelling. The speed at the big end of the straight is wicked, though...
Fixed.
Am looking forward to a vid where this bike is put on a track side by side with, say, an S1000RR or an R1. It's hard to gauge just how fast this thing is -- and how much of that 300HP it's actually able to put to the ground in the real world thanks to anti-wheelie etc -- without some sort of baseline reference.
It rarely is.
Shaman
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So why bring it up? To be a dick? Oh, right. You did.
The rider pulled off about a 2:09. MotoGP guys are around 1:55, WSBK around 1:57, so that seems like a quick lap to me. Is it just me, or does that thing sound a bit snatchy with off-on throttle transitions?
Shaman
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Some riders mentioned that. Supercharger systems and turbo systems can suffer from boost surge, hard to say if Kawasaki has entirely worked it out (because obviously I haven't ridden one). One would suspect that they have, though... the snail is right up against the intake plenum, almost like a roots blower. That open exhaust on the H2R could cause some issues with building boost, too, which could explain a snatchy throttle application below say, 5000 rpm, with the engine hovering on the edge of surging.
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That paint-by-the-numbers gimmick with the tach would get old extremely fast for me. Is there a way you can turn it off, so all the numbers are lit all the time?
Kawi has the best tach going on the ZX-10R, they should be putting something like that on there
Kawi has the best tach going on the ZX-10R, they should be putting something like that on there
The MCN test notes the ZX10R was quicker around the track. That is pointless however, most non-race riders don't use the highest cornering speeds and just point and shoot on the straights. The ZX10R is for racing, the H2R is for track hoonigans.
Shaman
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Except that I don't know any track that would permit it, at a sound level of ... insane... haha Don't get me wrong, I'd love to give it a whirl but it's definitely questionable as anything but a collector's item or a brand mascot. I'm cool with that, too, just saying.
Shaman
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So I'm good to go, then.
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