This Suzuki Hayabusa Is Turbocharged…Because A Stock Hayabusa Is Just Not Enough, Right?


This Suzuki Hayabusa Is Turbocharged…Because A Stock Hayabusa Is Just Not Enough, Right?

The word Hayabusa is the Japanese word for the Peregrine Falcon, which is fitting that the super bike that was fast enough to panic both the Japanese and European manufacturers about a possible ban on sales was named after a bird that has been clocked at 242 miles an hour in the middle of a hunting dive. Suzuki’s GSX1300R was lauded from the second press fleets got ahold of it not only for it’s sheer speed, which it has plenty of, but that it was more than just the fastest way to scare the hell out of the rider…it would tour, handle, and cruise just fine, it just also happened to be able to crank out a 9.84@146 MPH quarter mile as well.

You’d think that would be plenty of power for most any rider, even the severely deranged. Nope. Roads Untraveled revisited Duane and checked out his 2005 ‘Busa, equipped with a turbocharger and an air shifter. It’s not an extended swing arm bike and overall, it looks fairly stock. But Duane is the guy who has the 1,036 horsepower Supra. Stock simply doesn’t cut it with this guy. Watch the way the speedometer moves…the speedometer is the big dial on the right that is spinning faster than any tach I’ve ever seen…

 


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