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- INTERMOT innovations PS explosion
- BMW: new superbike and sporty roadster
- Suzuki is racing again
- Supersport side note
- R1 successor: Yamaha makes trade fair visitors fidget
- Ducati invents a new brand and a new market
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No more nice, adjusted and restrained. What the auto group has long thrown overboard can now also be seen in the bikes at INTERMOT: performance is something wonderful.
Uwe Seitz
14/10/2014
“The driving experience is like nothing,” the Kawasaki test driver whispers confidentially when we are in front of the Intermot late in the evening Kawasaki Ninja H2R stand. The man can judge that. He’s been around for a long time and is an avowed full throttle fetishist. “I can’t describe how the thing pushes,” he adds and shows his forearm, which is covered with goose bumps. Kawasaki has now tackled it, the piling-up, the pretended bourgeois sanity of the industry is over. The H2R will have 300 hp. The turbine experts from the Kawasaki group lure them out of the ZX-10R in-line quad with a radial compressor. The bike should weigh a maximum of as much as the superbike (around 200 kilos), and nobody wants to let it out yet. The price for the non-approved R version, which is also said to be limited in number, is not official.
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50,000 euros haunt the room and seem realistic in view of the finest carbon. Incidentally, the eye-catching wings are not supposed to be an optical gimmick, but rather have been designed by the space experts at Kawasaki Heavy Industries so that the H2R can move cleanly on the road with its powerful thrust. In contrast to turbochargers, the Kawa compressor start should start much earlier, serve the corresponding thrust from the lower rev range in an unimagined way and be noticeable for everyone despite the electronic safety net. In a slimmed-down presentation then in the series offshoot H2, which will be presented in a few weeks in Milan and will cost around half of the R-Ninja. The number of horsepower should be just over 200. The redesigned ones were also presented by Kawasaki Versys 1000 and her little 650 sister. Instead of bulging eyes, the sporty, long-legged tourer now has a significantly sharper look. The small Versys got a few technical innovations, with the 1000’s chassis and engine almost everything remained the same.
BMW: new superbike and sporty roadster
The BMW superbike S 1000 RR is still the boss in the ring of potent supersport rockets. So that it stays that way, Bayern have developed further. On the engine, new ducts, a different intake camshaft and valves ensure more pressure. The torque curve in particular has been improved. In the range between 9500 and 12000 rpm, which is so important in racing, it should now be almost all 113 Nm.
The asymmetrical headlights have been redesigned and reversed. A lot has happened on the chassis as well. The wheelbase has shrunk a bit, the caster has been reduced slightly with the steeper steering head angle. On the frame, the technicians changed the rigidity and flexibility in certain areas. Noticeable is the “horn” on the frame to which the footrests are screwed. Racetrack drivers could swallow at the thought of their RR crashing sideways into this filigree-looking frame part. The semi-active chassis of the HP4 is now also available for the RR, which can also be ordered with a blipper circuit. We will deliver all details and the first driving impression in PS 12 from November 12th.
The R 1200 R roadster is new and significantly sportier. Instead of the Biedermann look like its predecessor, the newly designed naked bike with its water-cooled 125 hp boxer looks agile and aggressive. The most important innovation is the telescopic fork, which replaces the Telelever and promises similar sportiness to the R nine T. However, the wheelbase has grown for more stability, and the long suspension travel speaks more for comfort than hard attacks on country roads. From a horsepower point of view, we were completely surprised by the sporty line of the RS version. Now we are waiting for Milan and the premiere of the RX, the 1000cc four-cylinder in the long-legged segment.
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Suzuki is racing again
The fact that MotoGP team boss Davide Brivio came to Cologne for Intermot was Suzuki’s signal to really step on the gas again. Although the newly installed ABS and the MotoGP paintwork on the GSX-R 1000 do not make a new racer summer, the signs are pointing to attack and a completely new Suzuki Superbike will be in stores by 2016 at the latest.
Currently, however, there are offshoots of the GSX-R that have the names GSX-S 1000 and listen to the GSX-S 1000 F. The engine of the two variants comes from the legendary K5 series, and if you listened carefully, there should still be a lot of horsepower left over from the 178 horsepower at the time, despite the better timing and perhaps because of the lighter pistons and the new air filter. The Langhuber could thus be well over 150 hp. 160 HP would be a word and would lift the GSX-S, which weighs around 210 kilos, to the top of Japanese naked bikes. Traction control and ABS are of course on board. If the wind pressure gets too much with so much smoke, you can order a fully paneled variant with high handlebars with the F version, which Suzuki itself places higher in a sporty way than the paneled Z 1000 version from competitor Kawasaki, the Z 1000 SX.
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Supersport side note
An ABS should once again be a small decision-making aid for all those who still want to buy a GSX-R 1000 before a MotoGP replica comes for the brand’s superbike fans next year. Suzuki wanted to make the sporting commitment that has flared up again clearly visible by making all Supersport models from the GSX-R 600 to the 1000 series available in MotoGP regalia. Randy de Puniet will use the XRH-1 at the wildcard start in the race in Valencia at the MotoGP final. The Suzuki works drivers for next season have already been determined: The Spaniards Aleix Espargaro and Maveric Vin ales will try to bring Suzuki back to the top in the GP.
R1 successor: Yamaha makes trade fair visitors fidget
Superbike fans were loved by Yamaha suddenly disappointed at the Cologne show. The premiere of the completely new Yamaha superbike has been postponed to the Eicma in Milan. Instead, the brand with the tuning forks showed a different racer, even if the name here seems a bit misleading. From the veteran XJR 1300 Yamaha made two versions that clearly indulge the “retro” zeitgeist. The thick air-cooled four-cylinder remained untouched with its 98 hp and 108 Newton meters of torque. However, the prices that are rumored for the big bike are interesting. Around 10,500 euros haunted the exhibition halls for the naked version and around 2,000 euros more for the Cafe Racer half-shell version. And at the end of the performance there was a promise to reconcile the racer faction with two super athletes in Milan. New R1 and a highly bred SP version? Let’s wait.
Ducati invents a new brand and a new market
What Ducati pulled off on the evening of a long press day, deserves a special mention. It was clear that the Scrambler in Cologne, but nobody expected that the mere unveiling would become the launch of a new brand. “Scrambler” is now its own brand under the aegis of Ducati and braces the fun-driven, air-cooled retro bikes from the otherwise high-tech, super sporty and powerful Ducati model range. Instead of a racing lifestyle, the scramblers are dominated by dolce vita with soft ice cream, jet helmets and a wafting hippie sound. Enough raved, because above all that means four new bikes that weigh around 185 kilos and are equipped with a single engine, the 802 cc, air-cooled twin with an output of 75 hp.
On the other hand, applied thicker KTM – literally. Because the big 1190 Adventure and the big drive of the 1290 Super Duke became the 1290 Super Adventure. 160 hp and 140 Newton meters of torque in an adventure bike are a real pound. The price of just under 18,000 euros, however, is also true.
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