B-King 1300 released

[cmit37]

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?page=motorcyclenews.articles.articleCategory.a rticle&resourceId=5641457&articleCategory=NEWS_NEW-BIKES
http://www.raptorsandrockets.com/News/2007_Suzuki.htm

[mattSV]

http://www.raptorsandrockets.com/images/Suzuki/Suzuki_B-king_1300_r.JPG

Looks very very 8) but where is the supercharger :evil:

[Peter Henry]

I really like what they are doing with that 1300 muscle bike, very nice apart from those awful ventilator shaft exhausts!

The K7 definitely gives me the impression that they have all but run out of ideas and just added a couple of gimmiicks. I think sales of K6 GSX's are going to go through the roof over the coming months.

But yeah,yeah what do I know? :?

[Razor]

So much for MCN saying that the B-King would have the 6 cylinder stratosphere motor. What a whopper.

[chazzyb]

B-King: Oh dear. I can see that flying out of the showroom in similar numbers to Yam's MT-01.

[Ceri JC]

"Riders will now be able to choose between three different kinds of power delivery simply by pressing a switch on the bars."

A great idea, but why not put this on to a sports tourer (not the SV; I mean some alternative to the VFR800i)? I think it'd be great on "working" bikes, but lets be honest, anything with a 'busa engine is primarily going to be used as a toy and I imagine most people will want it full power all the time.

[Viney]

That picture is years old!!

[northwind]

"everything that was promised". But not supercharged eh? Interesting though, Suzuki were saying that the GSX1400 would be their "last naked musclebike"

[Razor]

I think it'll be more GSR 1300 than B-King concept, should still be a cracking bike tho. :wink:

[zx6man]

"Riders will now be able to choose between three different kinds of power delivery simply by pressing a switch on the bars."

A great idea, but why not put this on to a sports tourer (not the SV; I mean some alternative to the VFR800i)? I think it'd be great on "working" bikes, but lets be honest, anything with a 'busa engine is primarily going to be used as a toy and I imagine most people will want it full power all the time.

the gsxr 1000 has the bar map switch

[DanAbnormal]

the gsxr 1000 has the bar map switch

Another bike that doesn't really need it. I mean it's at the top of the Supersports food chain......does it have a slow mode?! You very rarely see a sports mode on sports cars afterall.

Unless of course it's all to do with track stuff in which case it would have many uses.

[northwind]

Slow switch wouldn't go amiss in fact. It's midnight on a tuesday and it's pouring, and you have to ride back home along country a-roads on a 160bhp race rep... You wouldn't say no to soft power delivery I'll bet.