Super Suzook
SUPER SUZOOK
Matthew Miles
WHATEVER HAPPENED to Herbert Kainzinger, the matter-of-fact German who fabricated “King Maximum,” the 1680cc, 240-horsepower Yamaha V-Max featured in the June, 1997, issue of CW?
Not to worry, the 51-year-old is still hot-rodding motorcycles-in a big way, in fact, as verified by this $76,000 Suzuki Hayabusa. Built for a European customer who couldn’t lay his hands on a Yoshimura Hayabusa X-1, Kainzinger’s creation began life as a stock streetbike, but now more closely resembles a factory Superbike.
Forget for a moment the bike’s beautifully turned-out,
X-l-lookalike appearance, because the numbers alone are staggering: 203 horsepower at the rear wheel, 108 foot-pounds of torque, 415-pound dry weight. How’d he do that? To achieve the bigger-is-better
1400cc displacement, Kainzinger bumped the cylinder bores 5mm to 84mm. Cosworth pistons boosted compression to 13.0:1, and are mated to titanium Pankl con-rods. The crankshaft and clutch are stock, but 5.5 pounds collectively. Kainzinger handfabbed the colossal radiator, and Yoshimura supplied the bodywork, gas tank, rearsets and titanium exhaust. As for the chassis, Kainzinger shortened the wheelbase nearly 3 inches with adjustable tripleclamps (allied to a 43mm Öhlins fork) and a GSX-R750 swingarm. Front brakes are six-piston Nissins clamping Spiegler rotors, and wheels are magnesium Marchesinis. Yummy...
Want one? Too bad. Kainzinger (www.tuningcompany.de) vowed he’d build but one bigbore ’Busa. He is, however, open to other suggestions. Anyone for a 165-bhp Yamaha YZF-R1? -Matthew Miles
