It’s almost green

Ok, it’s a stretch to say the H2 SX is environmentally friendly, but bear with me. The reason Kawasaki developed the H2 in the first place was because they knew they couldn’t just keep making the ZZR bigger and bigger because of emissions regs and petrol prices. The supercharger was a way to increase efficiency while maintaining power, and the H2 was the test bed. But the H2 SX is where we start to see its potential to allow almighty bikes to stay within future legislative and social limits. Progress with superchargers could counterbalance the new rules. As Watanabe said: ‘When I developed other engines, each change I made gave me perhaps 1bhp. Every change I made with the supercharger was giving me 10bhp.’ There’s potential to be greener and faster…

Quickshi er works well going up, less so going down Every bike needs a massive snout. Frame was beefed up to cope with pillions