Inside Info About Kawasaki's Radical H2 Sportbike?

Motorcycle.com Staff
by Motorcycle.com Staff

Possible details dug up on the web

There’s been a lot of buzz about Kawasaki’s relentlessly teased H2 sportbike, but information with any details is thus far practically non-existent. The only things certain are that it will be powered by a supercharged inline-Four engine and packaged in a fully faired sportbike platform.

For more information, check out: 2015 Kawasakis Not Yet Announced.

inside info about kawasaki s radical h2 sportbike, Will the H2 s engine s lineage include the ZX 10R
Will the H2’s engine’s lineage include the ZX-10R?
inside info about kawasaki s radical h2 sportbike, Or the Z1000 as we originally anticipated
Or the Z1000, as we originally anticipated?

But a little digging on the interwebs turned up NinjaH2.org in which we found this thread: http://www.ninjah2.org/forum/engine/1289-kawasaki-ninja-h2-insider-confirmation-engine.html

The source claims some sort of insider info, a friend of a friend thing, and he purports the supercharged engine will meet or exceed 225 crankshaft horsepower. Interestingly, the source says the H2’s inline-Four powerplant might be a bespoke design, neither the Z1000/Ninja 1000 roots we guessed nor the ZX-10R’s.

inside info about kawasaki s radical h2 sportbike, Perhaps the H2 s engine will be the unholy spawn of the Z1000 left and the ZX 10R right that rises up to bludgeon them both in their sleep
Perhaps the H2’s engine will be the unholy spawn of the Z1000 (left) and the ZX-10R (right) that rises up to bludgeon them both in their sleep.

We’re not 100% sure if the engine will be an all-new design or a variant of one of Kawasaki’s two current liter-class mills, but, based on MO’s own conversations with Kawasaki insiders, we can believe the post’s closing line: “This thing will be absolutely the quickest and most powerful Kawasaki motorcycle of all time, by far.”

inside info about kawasaki s radical h2 sportbike, The 2015 Kawasaki H2 engine Careful it ll cut ya
The 2015 Kawasaki H2 engine. Careful, it’ll cut ya.
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