• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

2015 Kawasaki Ninja H2R: Producing an earth-moving 300hp.

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2015 KAWASAKI NINJA H2™R SPECIFICATIONS
Engine Supercharged, in-line Four, liquid-cooled
Displacement 998cc
Supercharger Centrifugal, scroll-type
Maximum Power approx 300hp
Frame Trellis, high-tensile steel
Tires F: 120/600 R17 (racing slick)
R: 190/650 R17 (racing slick)
NOTES
1. The Ninja H2R is a closed-course model; it may not be ridden on public roads
2. The Ninja H2R is a mass-production model
3. The street model (Ninja H2) will be released at EICMA

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How? It's supercharged :) plus its the non street legal version so there are a ton of other things. I think its amazing. Way to go kawi for doing a sportbike the unconventional way. Its about showing what they can do and standing out in a market of clones. First modern looking 250, 636 for street riders rather then a 600, topping the hyabusa by 100 cc's and making it lighter, and now this. Lets face it, their 450 is a powerhouse too. I used to look at kawi as second rate bikes but over about the last 10 years, they've slowly changed my mind. Thanks for the post ray. Its been slowly released a portion at a time. Nice to see the whole thing
 
justintendo said:
kaw has always built great bikes, and quite a few breakthru ones...the z1, h2, and ninja were all powerhouses when first introduced. imho the zrx is the best ujm ever made..
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Kawi made a 3-cylinder road racer bike ( not sure what you call them back then) back when I was a teenager, maybe 15, 16 yrs old ('74, '75?)...it was in class of its own and well ahead of its time... Probably out out run everything made for the road and track for that time ... Not sure if it was a ninja or what but nothing I remember on 2 wheels could compete with it.
 
ray_ray said:
Kawi made a 3-cylinder road racer bike ( not sure what you call them back then) back when I was a teenager, maybe 15, 16 yrs old ('74, '75?)...it was in class of its own and well ahead of its time... Probably out out run everything made for the road and track for that time ... Not sure if it was a ninja or what but nothing I remember on 2 wheels could compete with it.
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I remember that kawi 3 cylinder 2t, a buddy had one in our 20's it was scary fast. We never could get it running to its potential cause of the 3 carbs, they were a bitch to try and tune. What do you think about a supercharger on the zx10?image.jpg 300 hp would be a fun ride, bet that thing costs 50k or more. Beautiful bike
 
Teambowles said:
I remember that kawi 3 cylinder 2t, a buddy had one in our 20's it was scary fast. We never could get it running to its potential cause of the 3 carbs, they were a bitch to try and tune.

Quite easy to tune with a mirror behind the carbs so you could watch the slides. Owned a 750, 500 and 400 triple. Didn't handle so great but went good in a straight line for way back then.
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Notice how long the swingarm looks.. almost like a drag bike. (could just be when it's stripped appears that way?) Ton of horsepower.. but will it be able to turn and handle? that's what really counts.

But, SH*TLOAD of HP! Me thinks also gonna see a few of them "implode"! ;-)
 
Kawi bikes although sometimes ugly are solidly built and fast a hell. I will give two thumbs up for a superchager on my ZX10R even though mine does 192 mph now lol
 

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Justintendo mentioned the old H2, Z1 Kawasakis.. so great to see Kawi release their new H2R, and paying homage to its' roots.... here was my 1972 H2 Mach IV 750 "widowmaker"....:o
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I'm not a street-bike guy, but I would think that much HP would be unridable in anything other then a straight line!
 
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