WASABI BURN: Kawasaki W800 by Schlachtwerk - motorcycles

WASABI BURN: Kawasaki W800 by Schlachtwerk



Written by Martin Hodgson
Nobody goes for Sushi to only have just one piece, and the world’s best Kawasaki W builder has taken the same attitude to his bikes! So having crafted a killer Kawasaki powered drag bike called ‘Wasabi’ with all the fun, flavour and exhilaration of the real thing, Schlachtwerk’s Tommy Thoring decided that the second dish needed to be just the same, only available on the takeaway menu! So with his team of world-class chefs, he’s back with his second Wasabi offering and this one takes all of the drag racing hardware to the street for one hell of a traffic light GP racer.

?Yes, the name of this build is wasabi again, like the race one too. It?s a little mean Japanese based toy with some nice German engineered ingredients,? Tommy smiles! Immediately you can hear people make comments about the lack of fuel capacity for a street bike, but that would totally be missing the point. This is about having some fun with friends, proving what they learn on the track can work on the road and most of all having a street-legal bike that can pop down to the cafe and then kill a supercar on the quick squirt home!
?The style is Schlachtwerk in the purest form, reduced and minimalistic. The lightest W for street use I ever built. To be honest it?s only built for eye candy, only cause I could do it, with some help of friends.? Those friends are the same men that helped Tommy piece together the drag bike to great success, Ulf builds remar...
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