Beauty and the Beast all rolled up in one

[yellowperil]

Hayabusa, 200 HP and 200 MPH (Approx) and I'm glad I'm too old to get one.

[Baz]

Thought this was going to be another thread about the newest Sports Illustrated cover......

[flatbutt]

Not a pretty bike but oh so scary fast.

[pwd72s]

What's that movie title? Oh yeah...No place for old men.

[Evans, Marv]

When I got my '03 Yamaha with 140+ hp. years ago, I thought it was scarry. I don't think I'd like 200 hp.

[A930Rocket]

I can’t imagine a chain spinning that by 200 miles an hour.

[HardDrive]

Not my cup of tea, but you can't deny the raw performance.

[Steve Carlton]

Hayabusa is Japanese for Peregrine Falcon. It was speed-limited to 199 mph when it first came out.

[vash]

i rode a friends older model. it was stupid fast. it was huge and big feeling between my legs, but it squirted away from red lights.

when i got back on my 600, i almost looked down for the pedals.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

What's that movie title? Oh yeah...No place for old men.

Old bikers don't get old by accident.

[WPOZZZ]

[oldE]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Old bikers don't get old by accident.

Truer words were never spoken.

Best
Les

[908/930]

I would take the Kawasaki supercharged H2 given the choice, 230hp 105 lb ft, 524lbs, those Suzuki's are pretty nice but heavy. I think all the super bikes Ducati/BMW are at around 220hp now, just don't turn off the wheelie control. My ZX1100D was pretty quick back in 1995 with only 145hp at the crank, cruse at 120mph without effort.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Hayabusa is Japanese for Peregrine Falcon. It was speed-limited to 199 mph when it first came out.

Actually 186…

As for the name, it’s a little more clever than one would first notice. It was meant to dethrone Honda’s Blackbird and it just so happens that peregrine falcons like to dine on blackbirds…

[Steve Carlton]

My memory was a little fuzzy. I believe the first Hayabusa was not speed limited, and the 2000 on models were limited to 300 kph = 186 mph. The 1999 was a bit faster.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

My memory was a little fuzzy. I believe the first Hayabusa was not speed limited, and the 2000 on models were limited to 300 kph = 186 mph. The 1999 was a bit faster.

All of them have been limited to 300 KPH, or 186 mph, from day one. Unrestricted, they go faster than that.

[Sooner or later]

I don't believe the 1999 was limited.

[javadog]

The agreement to limit the speeds was reached in 1999, the same year the Busa was released. It’s essentially a handshake agreement, I don’t know that anybody has ever seen it on paper anywhere.

There was a little variation in the speeds that these things would reach over the years, from one individual bike to another, from one magazine test to another.

The fastest one is the current one, unrestricted it’ll knock on the door of 210.

[javadog]

I should also point out that the 2008 and later models were significantly more powerful than the 1999-2007 versions…

[Sooner or later]

It took affect in the 2000 model year. Plenty of sources state there was no limit for the 1999 model.