What?s it like to ride a 400bhp motorcycle"
When Fagan rang me up and told me that we were heading to a private runway to ride a Hayabusa, I was, as you can imagine, quite excited about the prospect. And then he told me that it wasn?t any ordinary Hayabusa, it was a Hayabusa with a TTS Performance supercharger on it. It was a Hayabusa with 400bhp.
As most people know, a standard Suzuki Hayabusa is a very fast motorbike. For 20-odd years, they?ve been scaring the socks off anyone brave enough to swing a leg over one, in the same way that anything with nigh-on 200bhp has.
In all fairness though, the world is a little bit more used to 200bhp now. When you compare the stock gen 3 Hayabusa?s 187bhp to the genuine 200bhp+ of some of todays top-of-the-range sports bikes, whilst still ballistically fast, the ?Busa has almost been relegated to the ?sports tourer? category. It?s big, comfortable, and yes it?s fast, but it?s not really up there amongst the fastest bikes in the world anymore.
That?s until TTS Performance fit one of their superchargers to it.
The TTS supercharged ?Busa is a gen 2 model (2008?2018). The gen 2 ?Busas, according to Suzuki came out of the factory with 194bhp. This one?s got more than double. And whilst I couldn?t wait to take it for a spin, I was actually rather pleased to see there was a standard Hayabusa parked next to the supercharged weapon. I thought it was probably a good idea to try and get my eye in with a 200bhp bike before I stepped up to 400bhp.
Baby steps
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