Suzuki Hayabusa:

Quick glance at the new bike shows the same silhouette as before, but Hayabusa buffs will immediately note some subtle differences. This bike has spent hours in the wind tunnel, the results showing in the new headlight, more smoothly contoured fairing and the double-bubble windscreen that is a half-inch higher than before factor in a lowered fuel tank, and now it is easier to crawl under the paint at the drag strip or flat-out across Your Own Private Bonneville Salt Flat.

Out back, no turn signal stalks; the blinkers now live in their own speed pods in the tail section. The latter appears to have been stretched for cleaner passage through the air, while wheelbase remains unchanged at 58.5 inches; the overall length of bike has grown 2.3 inches, fender tip to fender tip.


Hidden behind the new bodywork is the same basic mountain-motor inline-four, but with some speed-demon tweaks. First a 2 mm bore job (now 81.0 x 65.0 mm bore / stroke) takes displacement from 1299 cc up to 1340 cc. Compression ratio goes from 11.0:1 to 12.5:1, a significant boost. Now we add titanium valves.

12 percent bump in horsepower's going by our 2006 Hayabusa test bike?would yield 179 hp at the rear wheel! A similar jump in torque would mean 110 foot-pounds. No word in the early press materials as to what kind of electronic hocus-pocus (if any) will be used to keep the new Hayabusa from becoming a human fly-swatter at the drag strip.

 

Fuel Tank Capacity : 21 liters

Kerb Weight: 220 Kgs.

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