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harrisman 30-07-05 11:53 AM

supervox wrote
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harrisman wrote:
so what if styling is similar it is still totally unique!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hmmmmmmmmm - methinks there might be something a teensy weensy bit wrong with this sentence !!!
i meant unique as in there aint anybody else on the market tht makes anything like his work!!!!!!! sorry my incorrect use of language!!

northwind 30-07-05 01:37 PM

Who in the world would want a road going turbo 1500cc Busa? I can understand it for posing on, or dragging, or if you really want to get in Streetfighters, but it's not going to make much of a commuter is it :)

Supercharger would make more sense than turbo in this application, I assume, since it's generally more usable on the road, right?

BURNER 30-07-05 03:46 PM

There are a few nutters who use turbos on the road, they save the NOS for the strip....

Way back in the 80's there was a turbo bike from each of the japanese manufacturers, Yamaha put a turbo and a square fairing on their XJ650, I rode one was kinda fun but gutless low down.
http://www.xj650.de/galerie/xj650_turbo/xj650_turbo.htm

Honda had a CX500 turbo, maybe even CX650 turbo in the free world.
Ugly as sin the lot of 'em.
http://www.honda.ca/MotorcycleEng/Cl...1981+CX500.htm

The Suzuki XN85 was no better ...
http://www.motorbikes.be/en/Suzuki/1...%2085%20Turbo/

Best of that bad bunch was the Kawasaki GPZ 750 Turbo
http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/Bike%20...rbo%201984.htm

northwind 30-07-05 04:26 PM

Turbos for a sensible engine I can understand, but turbos for an already oversized Busa engine on the road just seems a bit daft. Though I know people do build street legal drag bikes of course.


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