Sport Rider Photos
With Los Angeles County Raceway now a gravel pit and the remaining area dragstrips ridiculously expensive to test at, we used our Stalker radar gun at Honda's Proving Center of California to record quarter-mile runs. We've been anticipating this move for more than a year and ran extensive comparison tests between the gun and dragstrip lights-it's incredibly accurate. Here the ZX-14 and Hayabusa run dead even until the very top end, where the Suzuki ekes out a small advantage. The time gained compared with the typical literbike (the GSX-R1000 is shown here for comparison) is in the first few seconds, where these bikes have more thrust yet are less wheelie-prone through first gear.
2008 Kawasaki ZX-14, Suzuki GSX1300R Hayabusa Comparison Test - Big Numbers