The Development of Kawasaki's New Supercharged Motorcycle

Kawasaki's new supercharged motorcycle is a marvel of engineering and design. The company, known for its innovative approach to motorcycling, has taken the concept of supercharging to new heights with this latest model. According to sources, Kawasaki went ahead with their own heavy Industries project, despite the engineer's initial skepticism that it couldn't be done. "I'm sorry so Kawasaki went to their own heavy Industries you I do do Jet termines and all that," one engineer was quoted as saying.

The supercharger is the brainchild of this innovative approach, designed to move air at incredible speeds. "The supercharger moves air so quickly that it alleviates the need for an intercooler essentially right yes yeah I mean that's that's the brilliant thing about it they did it all inhouse even at $25,000 a bike I don't even think they break even on these because if this was a European motorcycle it would be $150,000 easy," another engineer revealed. The impeller itself is spinning faster than the speed of sound when it's up in the upper RPM range.

The motor that powers this supercharger is a true marvel of engineering. "Much higher oil capacity moves oil a lot quicker it's a purpose-built motor specifically for this application that's what I just find so fascinating and it's a first use of a dog ring transmission by us in a production bike," one engineer explained. The motor was designed to take the supercharger power delivery, as most bikes can't handle such incredible power.

The trellis frame of this motorcycle is another impressive feature, allowing for optimal weight distribution and balance. "Plus that supercharger moves what I read 200 lers of air per second yeah at at full speed the air coming through through the intake is going over 1,000 m a second," an engineer noted. The bike's design ensures a smooth ride, with a seat that holds the rider in place but still allows for comfort.

One thing that sets this motorcycle apart from its competitors is its exceptional power delivery. "I mean that mid-range torque to think that that H2 was the fastest thing in the world back in the day and I mean it it couldn't even hold unbelievable come on we'll take over another little spin," a rider exclaimed. The bike's acceleration is unparalleled, making it an ideal choice for those looking for a thrilling riding experience.

The production of this motorcycle has been a significant undertaking, with Kawasaki committing to a warranty that reflects their confidence in the product. "That's that's uh that's the amazing part you know if you really want to read a good technical piece on this motor and this motorcycle Uh Kevin Cameron he's the uh the guy at psycho world he writes an engineering column and he's a brilliant engineer he's one of those guys that can take uh complicated engineering and break it down so guys like me can understand what the heck you're talking about," an industry expert noted.

For its designers, the most exciting aspect of this motorcycle is its ability to be ridden. "I'm I'm going to ride it for the very first time yeah I've ordered one you got to you got to you got to do it I believe this is the first Kawasaki motorcycle to use the river mark on the front you know when uh Mr Kawasaki started his business in the 1870s he had a flag with that on it and they only use that symbol I guess on their best products and it's never been used on any of the engines or any of those bikes up right now Jesus my God at that Kawasaki gearbox with that reassuring kind of clunk noise I actually like it," one rider shared.

As riders take to the roads, they are struck by the sheer power and acceleration of this motorcycle. "I want to thank Kawasaki for building this motorcycle you know it's fascinating we see a company just wants to build the best possible thing they can build regardless of cost and this is an expensive motorcycle there's no doubt about it is that that much better than the ZX14 or any of those yeah but in a different way you know um it it's just uh it's the fastest accelerating vehicle you can buy um just the level of machine work and and I mean if you can just sit all day and look at these Wells and look at the uh the brochure the way that supercharger is put together it just boggles the mind," an engineer reflected.

As one rider noted, "I'm not good enough to make this bike do what it can do but uh might be fun Die Trying." With its incredible performance and cutting-edge design, Kawasaki's new supercharged motorcycle is sure to leave a lasting impression on the world of motorcycling.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome another episode of Jay Len's garage you might remember a while back we did kind of the world premiere of the Kawasaki H2 and h2r here at the garage well I I had to get one I'm sorry it's it's like the greatest bike I had to get one so I thought since we went over a lot of the technical stuff at that time and we'll go over it again maybe a little bit more depth a little bit later and we'll ride this bike let's talk about the history of the H2 I mean this is a legendary motorcycle it was the fastest accelerating bike ever when it came out but let's meet our Kawasaki guy Jeff hog Jeff how you doing good to see you good to see you okay these are 72 and that's a 7 these are what about 1,400 bucks when they were new yeah yeah who had $1,400 that was crazy that was a lot of money back then it was a lot of money back then so how old were you how old were you in these R you must have been a teenager H so yeah this one is a 73 so I would so I would have been 12 oh 12 okay I would have been 23 okay that's pretty good but it was the fastest accelerating and the evil handling actually kind of helped move the myth along didn't it it had that kind of flexible swing arm a little bit but a lot of guys got them to hand and and stop pretty good uh I think the myth was a lot worse than the actual product wasn't it uh yeah it it was just no one had seen this kind of acceleration you know the triple and individual pipes it was light years ahead of everything else that was out there at the time it was the fastest thing on the street just to put them in perspective for if you're like under 30 years old back in the 60s cars were faster than motorcycles they just were gto's hems cuz you had Harley's and triumphs and Honda 750s but a good road runner a good Corvette nine times out of 10 would outrun just about any motorcycle I remember the Norton Commando in 68 or 69 was the fastest bike you could buy and I think the top speed was 123 124 so just to put that in in perspective so when this came out oh my god with 74 horsepower which doesn't sound like anything now but yeah the Vincent Black Shadow had 55 horsepower that was considered crazy back in the ' 50s so when these came along with 74 horsepower and a lightweight and of course that that power band nothing happened below three grand and then it just pinned it I mean it's the whole sensation I've never driven one of these and I'm going to drive it today so I'm I'm anxious to uh to ride it not drive it uh I'm anxious to try one of these because this has always been one of those kind of bucket lless bikes in in my mind and it's it's still a goodlook motorcycle I I like it stock you know as a kid you want to put the expansion Chambers and all that stuff on here these were everywhere in SoCal and Across the Nation they were the bike to have and in theory and of course two strokes were outlawed after what 75 76 I think it was about the last two stroke emissions they would I mean blue smoke coming out the bag villagers chasing you with pitchforks I mean it got to be a little much boy it was fun while it lasted as you can see dis break the early ones had a drum break in front didn't they first generation not not yeah yeah correct it had a single disc up front still had the drum in the rear right now obviously two-stroke 750 C and this had the automatic lubrication right obviously many two strokes you had to mix the oil with the gas you didn't have to do that with this each manufacturer had its own py Lube all the different oems had a different version of their oil injection system and horrendous gas mileage he's got like down into the so you have to understand the way Kawasaki thinks I think different than the other manufacturers they're always trying to one up which I love when the Honda 750 came out uh Kawasaki was actually ready with the four stroke but I think it wasn't 900 CC's and they figured you know let's wait let Honda have their thing and then they came out with the 900 after that Z1 and of course the Z1 was the future that was the writing on the wall but the last gasp was the two-stroke they knew emissions were coming they knew you wouldn't be able to make these much longer so they just went kind of all out to build the fastest accelerating production motorcycle you could buy and that's what this is the Kawasaki H2 they came with what a 400 cc originally and a 500 back in the day back in the 60s and early 70s the British made the best chassis and the Japanese made the best engines so what they would do a lot of guys would mate the two of them there'd be uh you know English frames with Kawasaki Motors Honda Motors and that's what a lot of guys weren't racing with it wasn't until mid 70s early 80s that the Japanese frame technology began to equal and overtake some of the European manufacturers I mean it's going to be fun to to uh to ride one of these now this is Kickstart only right uh correct yeah so I when was the last time we saw a Kickstarter so but the nice thing about two strokes are pretty easy just kind of drop your foot and vroom and then they go and they sound like bees in a can triple pipes it's rare to find one without aftermarket pipes on there everybody was always wanting even more power no it's just fun to see it stock it's hard to convey how fast this motorcycle was I mean it just blew off everything on the street back in the day uh I mean today middleweight bikes blow the doors off I mean it's just it's just funny how how it changes but it's not so much even how fast it was it felt even faster cuz when that power band kicked in it was like whoa you know the front end would come up I mean just just really really exciting yeah was a very visceral very yeah yeah which is actually the image Kawasaki was uh trying to convey yeah and this is the same motor that like ivanu haml and Gary Nixon when he rode for us these are the motors that they were riding really and and the drag strip as well Tony nicasia all the guys that from the day yeah this was the power plant of choice okay we'll take this one for a ride then we come back we get into that one o all right welcome back to 1972 uh as you see we have our Kickstarter which might be foreign to a lot of new bikers when you start a Kickstart bike the GoPro is not 1972 that's fairly new the camera yeah you want to put this up turn your key on sometimes one or two kicks let's see what we got here now that sound compared to a Harley or a Triumph a lot of guys are in no way but after a while that got to be the sound those the stock pipes too pretty loud nice thing about two strokes is hardly any compression so he just dro your foot and they go let's uh I'm really excited to take this ride I got a ad minut as I'm excited about riding this one as I am the new one it's a bit like going back and seeing your whole your old high school girlfriend and she looks exactly the same know every motorcyclist should drive a two-stroke at least once it's just a fascinating experience it's a whole different Power Band it just comes on so hard all of a sudden when you hit 3500 or so believe me back in the 60s and 7s there was nothing more embarrassing for Harley Rider than to get blown off by a Japanese two-stroke oh my God the indignity that power band's right about here nice thing is with the blue smoke you kill all the mosquitoes behind you I feel like that scene that m Max you know where he goes lost to the V8 intercepted you know this bike kind of reminds me of the Lamborghini mura in the sense that when it was new it was flawed because you couldn't really run it at 1010 you saw all the fults but if you wrote it at 710 it was an absolute pleasure and that's what this is I find the braking fine braking is adequate handling is okay obviously if you're trying to race somebody or compete the flaws come through but to ride it is a Classic Bike it just makes an excellent fun ride it's a classic you know still pulls pretty good the scary thing with two strokes was that the summertime they get hot and seiz but by the time the mid 70s came along they pretty much Tak care of that just Power Band one am I now 5 grand seven does make you wonder where two stroke motorcycles would be if they've been allowed to continue you know if theyve gone to 1100 1200 cc bike be fascinating to see I just love the Simplicity of it no electric start no radiator no oil or none of that I've got a couple of two stroke bikes like Suzuki X6 tesler which was the hot bike than the E gr and of course the Scot Sing Squirrel but neither of compared to this oh my God this this thing is a lot of fun but boy you can tell how far we've come with breaking and it just kind of I'm pulling that front brake and you know what everything's a little a little Loosey Goosey but that's the way they did it back in the day I love this bike I've got to try and find one of these I've got to get me an H2 right but now we're going to go back and we'll try the the new H2 you know something I think that's going to be a little scary come on we take Grandpa back and put him in the garage well what a lot of fun this thing is to ride boy it brings back a lot of memories it's it's just so funny that what was once the fastest thing in the world is now that's okay I mean now you're just keeping up with traffic but it's still quick and boy it's a lot of fun to ride you know the Vintage riding experience is really really a fun thing cuz it just so different from that let's go over to the uh yeah H2 that was the king of the streets in 72 right let think if you would have had this in 72 yeah yeah you'd be dead yeah you'd actually be dead they do a track version of it called the h2r 326 with the ram 326 the ram okay you think about this the company says build the fastest meanest bike we can and that's what the h2r is and the only difference between the h2r and this is is really cam shafts head gasket ECU exhaust and exhaust and exhaust is straight through exhaust a supercharged motorcycle is it heavier than the standard sport bike yeah it is a little bit but I think that doesn't detract from it all it still makes it the fastest accelerating motorcycle Evers was it 525 lbs with fluid which is not crazy there the reason why it's a single-sided swing arm is because of the aerodynamics right because they wanted everything to be narrower usually it's you know to make it more exotic looking a lot of the Italian marks do it that way right but that's actually a functionality piece to bring everything together so they wouldn't have the swinger on this side to bring the exhaust in closer so that the profile was narrower right for the aerodynamics and the other thing is it's not a race bike it's a road bike Y and consequently handlebar height you're not way down there you're not totally hunched over in the thing the other thing I find fascinating is that uh Kawasaki has this supercharger and originally they went to aftermarket manufacturer saying we need a supercharger they can do this but we don't want to use an intercooler because it's too bulky and everybody said no they can't be done I'm sorry so Kawasaki went to their own heavy Industries you I do do Jet termines and all that and devised this uh supercharger which moves air so quickly that it alleviates the need for an intercooler essentially right yes yeah I mean that's that's the brilliant thing about it they did it all inhouse even at $25,000 a bike I don't even think they break even on these because if this was a European motorcycle it would be $150,000 easy I mean this trellis frame look at these Wells uh we've been over this before plus that supercharger moves what I read 200 lers of air per second yeah at at full speed the air coming through through the intake is going over 1,000 m a second yeah it's and what you're hearing is is essentially when on the overrun you're hearing like little Sonic booms because it's it's it's moving so quickly yeah the impeller the impeller itself is spinning faster than the speed of sound when it's up in the upper uh uh RP right I mean think about that the supercharge is spinning 140,000 RPM it's a brand new motor yep uh much higher oil capacity moves oil a lot quicker it's a purpose-built motor specifically for this application that's what I just find so fascinating and it's a first use of a dog ring transmission by us in a production bike yeah the whole motor was was made to take the supercharger power delivery because a lot of the bikes you can take uh some of our competitor stuff and put a supercharger on there and get the power out of it right but the crank case the crank uh the rods none of that the none of that was made to take that kind of power this thing was made to last and it comes with a warranty right yeah that's that's uh that's the amazing part you know if you really want to read a good technical piece on this motor and this motorcycle Uh Kevin Cameron he's the uh the guy at psycho world he writes an engineering column and he's a brilliant engineer he's one of those guys that can take uh complicated engineering and break it down so guys like me can understand what the heck you're talking about and I always go to him in his columns and he wrote some brilliant stuff on this motorcycle it's just a fascinating bike I'm I'm going to ride it for the very first time yeah I've ordered one you got to you got to you got to do it I believe this is the first Kawasaki motorcycle to use the river mark on the front you know when uh Mr Kawasaki started his business in the 1870s he had a flag with that on it and they only use that symbol I guess on their best products and it's never been used on any of the engines or any of those bikes up right now Jesus my God at that Kawasaki gearbox with that reassuring kind of clunk noise I actually like it I must say I love this seat it holds you in but the most important aspect of this thing is that it's truly a road bike it's just an incredible this bike comes down to three words I am not worthy I mean it's I'm scaring myself to death on this thing it's the first time I've ridden it it's going to take a while to get used to it but uh it's the most power machine powerful machine I've ever WR it's really unbelievable uh that mid-range torque to think that that H2 was the fastest thing in the world back in the day and I mean it it couldn't even hold unbelievable come on we'll take over another little spin we'll head back to the shop well that's pretty incredible with the exception of maybe neutral being a little hard to find it's unbelievable I want to thank Kawasaki for building this motorcycle you know it's fascinating we see a company just wants to build the best possible thing they can build regardless of cost and this is an expensive motorcycle there's no doubt about it is that that much better than the ZX14 or any of those yeah but in a different way you know um it it's just uh it's the fastest accelerating vehicle you can buy um just the level of machine work and and I mean if you can just sit all day and look at these Wells and look at the uh the brochure the way that supercharger is put together it just boggles the mind you know to move the bar this much forward all the time it's really fascinating I mean this is seems like a thousand years ahead of the original H2 you know it's kind of wobbly and whatever I look I'm not good enough to make this bike do what it can do but uh might be fun Die Trying This is going to get parked right next to the F1 McLaren oh yeah see you guys next weekwelcome another episode of Jay Len's garage you might remember a while back we did kind of the world premiere of the Kawasaki H2 and h2r here at the garage well I I had to get one I'm sorry it's it's like the greatest bike I had to get one so I thought since we went over a lot of the technical stuff at that time and we'll go over it again maybe a little bit more depth a little bit later and we'll ride this bike let's talk about the history of the H2 I mean this is a legendary motorcycle it was the fastest accelerating bike ever when it came out but let's meet our Kawasaki guy Jeff hog Jeff how you doing good to see you good to see you okay these are 72 and that's a 7 these are what about 1,400 bucks when they were new yeah yeah who had $1,400 that was crazy that was a lot of money back then it was a lot of money back then so how old were you how old were you in these R you must have been a teenager H so yeah this one is a 73 so I would so I would have been 12 oh 12 okay I would have been 23 okay that's pretty good but it was the fastest accelerating and the evil handling actually kind of helped move the myth along didn't it it had that kind of flexible swing arm a little bit but a lot of guys got them to hand and and stop pretty good uh I think the myth was a lot worse than the actual product wasn't it uh yeah it it was just no one had seen this kind of acceleration you know the triple and individual pipes it was light years ahead of everything else that was out there at the time it was the fastest thing on the street just to put them in perspective for if you're like under 30 years old back in the 60s cars were faster than motorcycles they just were gto's hems cuz you had Harley's and triumphs and Honda 750s but a good road runner a good Corvette nine times out of 10 would outrun just about any motorcycle I remember the Norton Commando in 68 or 69 was the fastest bike you could buy and I think the top speed was 123 124 so just to put that in in perspective so when this came out oh my god with 74 horsepower which doesn't sound like anything now but yeah the Vincent Black Shadow had 55 horsepower that was considered crazy back in the ' 50s so when these came along with 74 horsepower and a lightweight and of course that that power band nothing happened below three grand and then it just pinned it I mean it's the whole sensation I've never driven one of these and I'm going to drive it today so I'm I'm anxious to uh to ride it not drive it uh I'm anxious to try one of these because this has always been one of those kind of bucket lless bikes in in my mind and it's it's still a goodlook motorcycle I I like it stock you know as a kid you want to put the expansion Chambers and all that stuff on here these were everywhere in SoCal and Across the Nation they were the bike to have and in theory and of course two strokes were outlawed after what 75 76 I think it was about the last two stroke emissions they would I mean blue smoke coming out the bag villagers chasing you with pitchforks I mean it got to be a little much boy it was fun while it lasted as you can see dis break the early ones had a drum break in front didn't they first generation not not yeah yeah correct it had a single disc up front still had the drum in the rear right now obviously two-stroke 750 C and this had the automatic lubrication right obviously many two strokes you had to mix the oil with the gas you didn't have to do that with this each manufacturer had its own py Lube all the different oems had a different version of their oil injection system and horrendous gas mileage he's got like down into the so you have to understand the way Kawasaki thinks I think different than the other manufacturers they're always trying to one up which I love when the Honda 750 came out uh Kawasaki was actually ready with the four stroke but I think it wasn't 900 CC's and they figured you know let's wait let Honda have their thing and then they came out with the 900 after that Z1 and of course the Z1 was the future that was the writing on the wall but the last gasp was the two-stroke they knew emissions were coming they knew you wouldn't be able to make these much longer so they just went kind of all out to build the fastest accelerating production motorcycle you could buy and that's what this is the Kawasaki H2 they came with what a 400 cc originally and a 500 back in the day back in the 60s and early 70s the British made the best chassis and the Japanese made the best engines so what they would do a lot of guys would mate the two of them there'd be uh you know English frames with Kawasaki Motors Honda Motors and that's what a lot of guys weren't racing with it wasn't until mid 70s early 80s that the Japanese frame technology began to equal and overtake some of the European manufacturers I mean it's going to be fun to to uh to ride one of these now this is Kickstart only right uh correct yeah so I when was the last time we saw a Kickstarter so but the nice thing about two strokes are pretty easy just kind of drop your foot and vroom and then they go and they sound like bees in a can triple pipes it's rare to find one without aftermarket pipes on there everybody was always wanting even more power no it's just fun to see it stock it's hard to convey how fast this motorcycle was I mean it just blew off everything on the street back in the day uh I mean today middleweight bikes blow the doors off I mean it's just it's just funny how how it changes but it's not so much even how fast it was it felt even faster cuz when that power band kicked in it was like whoa you know the front end would come up I mean just just really really exciting yeah was a very visceral very yeah yeah which is actually the image Kawasaki was uh trying to convey yeah and this is the same motor that like ivanu haml and Gary Nixon when he rode for us these are the motors that they were riding really and and the drag strip as well Tony nicasia all the guys that from the day yeah this was the power plant of choice okay we'll take this one for a ride then we come back we get into that one o all right welcome back to 1972 uh as you see we have our Kickstarter which might be foreign to a lot of new bikers when you start a Kickstart bike the GoPro is not 1972 that's fairly new the camera yeah you want to put this up turn your key on sometimes one or two kicks let's see what we got here now that sound compared to a Harley or a Triumph a lot of guys are in no way but after a while that got to be the sound those the stock pipes too pretty loud nice thing about two strokes is hardly any compression so he just dro your foot and they go let's uh I'm really excited to take this ride I got a ad minut as I'm excited about riding this one as I am the new one it's a bit like going back and seeing your whole your old high school girlfriend and she looks exactly the same know every motorcyclist should drive a two-stroke at least once it's just a fascinating experience it's a whole different Power Band it just comes on so hard all of a sudden when you hit 3500 or so believe me back in the 60s and 7s there was nothing more embarrassing for Harley Rider than to get blown off by a Japanese two-stroke oh my God the indignity that power band's right about here nice thing is with the blue smoke you kill all the mosquitoes behind you I feel like that scene that m Max you know where he goes lost to the V8 intercepted you know this bike kind of reminds me of the Lamborghini mura in the sense that when it was new it was flawed because you couldn't really run it at 1010 you saw all the fults but if you wrote it at 710 it was an absolute pleasure and that's what this is I find the braking fine braking is adequate handling is okay obviously if you're trying to race somebody or compete the flaws come through but to ride it is a Classic Bike it just makes an excellent fun ride it's a classic you know still pulls pretty good the scary thing with two strokes was that the summertime they get hot and seiz but by the time the mid 70s came along they pretty much Tak care of that just Power Band one am I now 5 grand seven does make you wonder where two stroke motorcycles would be if they've been allowed to continue you know if theyve gone to 1100 1200 cc bike be fascinating to see I just love the Simplicity of it no electric start no radiator no oil or none of that I've got a couple of two stroke bikes like Suzuki X6 tesler which was the hot bike than the E gr and of course the Scot Sing Squirrel but neither of compared to this oh my God this this thing is a lot of fun but boy you can tell how far we've come with breaking and it just kind of I'm pulling that front brake and you know what everything's a little a little Loosey Goosey but that's the way they did it back in the day I love this bike I've got to try and find one of these I've got to get me an H2 right but now we're going to go back and we'll try the the new H2 you know something I think that's going to be a little scary come on we take Grandpa back and put him in the garage well what a lot of fun this thing is to ride boy it brings back a lot of memories it's it's just so funny that what was once the fastest thing in the world is now that's okay I mean now you're just keeping up with traffic but it's still quick and boy it's a lot of fun to ride you know the Vintage riding experience is really really a fun thing cuz it just so different from that let's go over to the uh yeah H2 that was the king of the streets in 72 right let think if you would have had this in 72 yeah yeah you'd be dead yeah you'd actually be dead they do a track version of it called the h2r 326 with the ram 326 the ram okay you think about this the company says build the fastest meanest bike we can and that's what the h2r is and the only difference between the h2r and this is is really cam shafts head gasket ECU exhaust and exhaust and exhaust is straight through exhaust a supercharged motorcycle is it heavier than the standard sport bike yeah it is a little bit but I think that doesn't detract from it all it still makes it the fastest accelerating motorcycle Evers was it 525 lbs with fluid which is not crazy there the reason why it's a single-sided swing arm is because of the aerodynamics right because they wanted everything to be narrower usually it's you know to make it more exotic looking a lot of the Italian marks do it that way right but that's actually a functionality piece to bring everything together so they wouldn't have the swinger on this side to bring the exhaust in closer so that the profile was narrower right for the aerodynamics and the other thing is it's not a race bike it's a road bike Y and consequently handlebar height you're not way down there you're not totally hunched over in the thing the other thing I find fascinating is that uh Kawasaki has this supercharger and originally they went to aftermarket manufacturer saying we need a supercharger they can do this but we don't want to use an intercooler because it's too bulky and everybody said no they can't be done I'm sorry so Kawasaki went to their own heavy Industries you I do do Jet termines and all that and devised this uh supercharger which moves air so quickly that it alleviates the need for an intercooler essentially right yes yeah I mean that's that's the brilliant thing about it they did it all inhouse even at $25,000 a bike I don't even think they break even on these because if this was a European motorcycle it would be $150,000 easy I mean this trellis frame look at these Wells uh we've been over this before plus that supercharger moves what I read 200 lers of air per second yeah at at full speed the air coming through through the intake is going over 1,000 m a second yeah it's and what you're hearing is is essentially when on the overrun you're hearing like little Sonic booms because it's it's it's moving so quickly yeah the impeller the impeller itself is spinning faster than the speed of sound when it's up in the upper uh uh RP right I mean think about that the supercharge is spinning 140,000 RPM it's a brand new motor yep uh much higher oil capacity moves oil a lot quicker it's a purpose-built motor specifically for this application that's what I just find so fascinating and it's a first use of a dog ring transmission by us in a production bike yeah the whole motor was was made to take the supercharger power delivery because a lot of the bikes you can take uh some of our competitor stuff and put a supercharger on there and get the power out of it right but the crank case the crank uh the rods none of that the none of that was made to take that kind of power this thing was made to last and it comes with a warranty right yeah that's that's uh that's the amazing part you know if you really want to read a good technical piece on this motor and this motorcycle Uh Kevin Cameron he's the uh the guy at psycho world he writes an engineering column and he's a brilliant engineer he's one of those guys that can take uh complicated engineering and break it down so guys like me can understand what the heck you're talking about and I always go to him in his columns and he wrote some brilliant stuff on this motorcycle it's just a fascinating bike I'm I'm going to ride it for the very first time yeah I've ordered one you got to you got to you got to do it I believe this is the first Kawasaki motorcycle to use the river mark on the front you know when uh Mr Kawasaki started his business in the 1870s he had a flag with that on it and they only use that symbol I guess on their best products and it's never been used on any of the engines or any of those bikes up right now Jesus my God at that Kawasaki gearbox with that reassuring kind of clunk noise I actually like it I must say I love this seat it holds you in but the most important aspect of this thing is that it's truly a road bike it's just an incredible this bike comes down to three words I am not worthy I mean it's I'm scaring myself to death on this thing it's the first time I've ridden it it's going to take a while to get used to it but uh it's the most power machine powerful machine I've ever WR it's really unbelievable uh that mid-range torque to think that that H2 was the fastest thing in the world back in the day and I mean it it couldn't even hold unbelievable come on we'll take over another little spin we'll head back to the shop well that's pretty incredible with the exception of maybe neutral being a little hard to find it's unbelievable I want to thank Kawasaki for building this motorcycle you know it's fascinating we see a company just wants to build the best possible thing they can build regardless of cost and this is an expensive motorcycle there's no doubt about it is that that much better than the ZX14 or any of those yeah but in a different way you know um it it's just uh it's the fastest accelerating vehicle you can buy um just the level of machine work and and I mean if you can just sit all day and look at these Wells and look at the uh the brochure the way that supercharger is put together it just boggles the mind you know to move the bar this much forward all the time it's really fascinating I mean this is seems like a thousand years ahead of the original H2 you know it's kind of wobbly and whatever I look I'm not good enough to make this bike do what it can do but uh might be fun Die Trying This is going to get parked right next to the F1 McLaren oh yeah see you guys next week\n"