2022 Suzuki Hayabusa First Ride

For a segment of motorcycling as technologically-driven as sportbikes, 14 years is an eternity - even more so for a category that Saraki calls the Ultimate Sporbike but that's how long it's been for the Hayabuja. While there wat an incremental update in 2013 that brought ABS to the table, until today, the Hayabusa, a motorcycle that, on its inception way back in 1999 had claimed the title of "world's fastest production motorcycle," had only underge two generational updates: the ciginal release and the 2008 revamp. However, today's announcement of the 2022 Saraki Hayabuna adds another chapter to this earth-bound missile.

When considering the Hayabusa, two features imunediately come to mind. First, is the iconic look of the slippery fairing impaired, according to Suzuki, by the peregrine falcon, which the manufacturer has long boasted of having "one of the lowest drag coefficients achieved on a production bile."The use of the fairing swoops back over the windshield, carrying the arc of the bike's lines over the back of the tucked-in rider before curving down over the tail section's prominent hump a look that has only been enhanced in the 2022 version. The second prominent feature of the Hayabusa is almost completely hidden from view but is almost as cotic as the motorcycle's profile (Just ask drag race A 1340ce inline-Four is responsible for the thru that propels the Hayabusa no a speed limited 183

Naturally, when considering a new generation of an existing motorcycle, inquiring minds want to know if it is a whole cloth ground up update. In the case of the 2021 Hayabusa, the awer would be no However, the changes are by no means minor While the essential structure of the engine and the chasis remain the same, they have both been "refined" and "thoroughly updated, pectively (according to Sumka's press materials, with the sum of the new or revised parts reaching a lofty 550 in ital. Anyone who has seen the Hayabuna's 1340ce engine naked would recogit immediach became the changes are on the inside. The same could likely be said of the clumsis, from the swoopy bodywork to the twin spar aluminum frame to the identical 38.3-inch wheelbase. So, why don't we start with the engine?

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