Kawasaki H2R, 300hp supercharged motorcycle
 

Today Kawasaki unveiled the much anticipated H2R, and holy cow it has a supercharged 1000cc engine making 300hp. The power-to-weight ratio of this thing is off the charts.

I've owned a 1000cc bike before and it "only" produced ~180hp and it was plenty fast. I can't imagine riding a bike with an extra 120 ponies. Interesting to see how the traction control and abs will work with this monster.

Too bad it's track-only for now, but they did mention a street-legal version coming out later this year.

Here's an article on the bike: 2015 Kawasaki Ninja H2R Unveiled at INTERMOT 2014 Motorcycle Show

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wow...Im a kawai fan as I have a 636 myself...this thing must hit ludicrous speed.

If they sell a street legal version, it had better come with a donor card. It's an impressive bit of engineering, but it's too much bike for 99% of the population.

I wonder if it is possible to drop one of these into a Miata. LOL I read somewhere that it had a 14k redline.

Is it weird that i kinda want to make love to it?? :leghump:

Jeebus, my 04 gixxer 1000 put 178hp to the wheel and it made my cornhole pucker. This is not for the faint of heart.

Omg. I want one.

Way too much unusable horsepower. My 02 blackbird was a beast with 145hp at the wheel.

I...just came.......drooooollllll!!!

You'll never get insurance

Now that you've mentioned it, you can very, very faintly see the numbers on the tachometer in the last picture. Number 12 is easiest to see and the units go by increments of 2. And you are correct, the redline reads at 14k.

Some of the newer 600cc bikes redline at 17k now.

Wouldn't need it, it's a track only bike.

Even for the street version, getting insurance on this will be hard and/or expensive. For the track only version of the bike, if you get a loan you will have to have insurance for the bike itself, not liabiity.

I would at least get life insurance.