The Suzuki Hayabusa (or GSX1300R) is a sport bike motorcycle made by Suzuki since 1999. It immediately won acclaim
as the world's fastest production motorcycle,
with a top speed of 188 to 194 miles per hour (303 to 312 km/h).
Hayabusa is Japanese word for "peregrine falcon",
a bird that often serves as a metaphor for speed due to its vertical hunting
dive, or stoop, speed of
180 to 202 miles per hour (290 to 325 km/h), the fastest of any bird. In particular, the choice of name was
made because the peregrine falcon preys on blackbirds, which reflected the intent of the
original Hayabusa to unseat the Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird as the world's fastest
production motorcycle. Eventually,
the Hayabusa managed to surpass the Super Blackbird by at least a full 10 miles
per hour (16 km/h) and won the
Besides
its speed, the Hayabusa’s all-round performance, in that it does not
drastically compromise other qualities like handling, comfort, reliability,
noise, fuel economy.
The first generation had a
1,299 cc (79.3 cu in) liquid-cooled, inline-4 engine with sixteen valves driven by double-overhead
cams. This configuration, technologically unremarkable for that
time, delivered a record-setting claimed 173 brake horsepower (129 kW) at
the crankshaft by virtue of the largest displacement ever
in a sport bike, and a ram air system that forced cool, pressurized air into
the cylinders at speed. Combined
with sophisticated aerodynamics, this powerful engine pushed the Hayabusa's top
speed far above the Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird by a significant leap, contrasting
with the incremental gains that preceded the Suzuki hyper sport entry. The 1997
carbureted CBR1100XX had previously only inched past the previous top speed
record holder, the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11 of 1990.
The
Hayabusa engine had an abundance of power throughout its entire rpm band. The
1,299 cc powerplant was the largest and most powerful sport bike engine
when introduced in 1999.
The ram
air ducts at the front of the drooping, rounded nose squeezed frontal area away
from the headlight, and this, along with the need for a narrow frontal area,
necessitated a stacked headlight and high beam behind a single lens. Moreover,
the need to reduce the extreme drag encountered at high speeds determined the
Hayabusa's entire bulbous, and much-criticized, bodywork design.
The engine used a gear-driven counterbalancer to reduce vibration to the point that
the engine could be solidly mounted to the frame, for the purpose of increasing
chassis rigidity. Employing a conventional twin beam frame, fully adjustable upside down forks, using specially developed Bridgestone tires, and being relatively light at
473 pounds (215 kg) dry, the Hayabusa's handling was considered excellent
for a machine of this class.
It produces a horsepower of
172.2hp at 10,100 rpm and a torque of 97.8lb.ft at 7600 rpm. The top speed of
hayabusa is 300kmph(limited).it accelerates from 0-100mph in 9.75 sec.
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