Kawasaki H2 2015 ridden at Rockingham by Neevesy | First Ride | Motorcyclenews.com
- 5 years ago
A steady start reveals that there isn't much difficult about riding the Kawasaki H2. Lucky owners will be relieved to hear that beyond the hype it's just a normal bike that pulls very hard when the motor is 'on the pipe. But it doesn't carry it's bulky 238kg weight well on track.
It's not the supercharged part of the H2's make-up that makes it such a handful around Rockingham - that's relatively unremarkable - but the weight, the instability on and off the power and the low speed throttle response. A Suzuki Hayabusa would have been easier to ride.
At the beginning of the day (in this video) I didn¹t enjoy riding the H2 around the track, but during the afternoon it grows on me. It¹s actually fun to control something so out of shape, leaving huge back lines on acceleration and snaking into corners with the rear tyre and supercharger squealing in protest.
Now, a day later, I can¹t stop thinking about this scary, fun, mental, annoying, brilliant, flawed, snatchy, smooth, slow, fast contradiction of a beast. It¹s stirred-up more emotions than any bike I¹ve ever ridden. I think I like it.
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It's not the supercharged part of the H2's make-up that makes it such a handful around Rockingham - that's relatively unremarkable - but the weight, the instability on and off the power and the low speed throttle response. A Suzuki Hayabusa would have been easier to ride.
At the beginning of the day (in this video) I didn¹t enjoy riding the H2 around the track, but during the afternoon it grows on me. It¹s actually fun to control something so out of shape, leaving huge back lines on acceleration and snaking into corners with the rear tyre and supercharger squealing in protest.
Now, a day later, I can¹t stop thinking about this scary, fun, mental, annoying, brilliant, flawed, snatchy, smooth, slow, fast contradiction of a beast. It¹s stirred-up more emotions than any bike I¹ve ever ridden. I think I like it.
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