We'll see about insurance when the time comes. Going to be another 4 years min anyways.
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Why aren't Ninja HR2 street legal in Ontario?
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We'll see about insurance when the time comes. Going to be another 4 years min anyways.
H2R is race only. Lots of differences other than just the tune apparently.
This guy actually bought all the parts to make a street legal H2R, here you would probably have to do similar (get an H2 frame and swap all the R parts over)
http://raresportbikesforsale.com/featured-listing-street-freaking-legal-2015-kawasaki-h2r-for-sale/
he had a whole detailed build thread on it but link doesnt seem to work anymore
This guy actually bought all the parts to make a street legal H2R, here you would probably have to do similar (get an H2 frame and swap all the R parts over)
http://raresportbikesforsale.com/featured-listing-street-freaking-legal-2015-kawasaki-h2r-for-sale/
he had a whole detailed build thread on it but link doesnt seem to work anymore
You'd have to go the other way. Buy an H2 and the $100,000 (just a guess) in parts to covert it to an H2R. Bingo, bango, street titled H2R. Risky to ride though. Telling the insurance company the mods have doubled the power and cost much more than the original bike probably leaves you with no insurance. Not telling them may leave with with no insurance if they investigate a crash or a cheque for the price of a stock H2 if you get lucky.
Roadghost
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The H2 has all the power anyone including the professional racers would ever be able to use on a public highway. I can't see why you would want a street legal H2R when you could never use it to its full potential on the street anyway.
Uhh.... because penis.
I guess that's better than Gixxer riders, who separate their men from the boys with a crowbar.
They are loud and astonishingly so. I've heard a lot of loud race bikes but after behind one on the back straight at mosport on a brand new (2016 at the time) S1000RR with all the fun bits, it was unreal. And it just walks away, like I'm on a 600. I feel bad for the race slicks on that thing, they have their work cut out. A bit porky, but its definitely a cool machine.
Street penis size is very important.
So basically, install lights & signals front and back, change tires to DOT, install rear fender and licence plate bracket, remove Kawasaki and H2R stickers, declare HOMEBUILT, and get very cheap insurance FTW
Glad you THINK, it is that simple. Go ahead, do what your suggesting and go to SO, then tell us why you weren't able to skip out the door with registration and plates in hand...lmao
Getting a "home built" motor vehicle is NO WHERE as simple to register, as is a home built trailer.... But nice try.
There is a reason people don't buy Salvage branded bikes and just put new parts on and skip into MTO declaring it Home built, and skip out wioth plates in hand...
Getting a "home built" motor vehicle is NO WHERE as simple to register, as is a home built trailer.... But nice try.
There is a reason people don't buy Salvage branded bikes and just put new parts on and skip into MTO declaring it Home built, and skip out wioth plates in hand...
So basically, install lights & signals front and back, change tires to DOT, install rear fender and licence plate bracket, remove Kawasaki and H2R stickers, declare HOMEBUILT, and get very cheap insurance FTW
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If I were in the market for a bike of that cost, I wouldn't be buying an H2R but a proper race spec Jap or European superbike. And it would not be ridden on the street, but what it was built for...
If you're determined to put an H2R on the street and you have that kind of money to buy one, it would not be that hard to pass it along for an H2 and register it. The question is not if it can be put on the street or not, but WHY would anyone want one for the street, are the Timmies meet ups really getting this fancy nowadays?
Exactly.Rather be shot out of a cannon than squeezed out of a tube.
... except it's known how to make an H2 faster than an H2R.
Someone just (couple days ago) did 233.9 mph at the Texas Mile on one. (213.1 mph in the half mile on the way there, too.)
https://www.facebook.com/ChrisBurns...904400/1982673855105446/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
Stock wheelbase, too ... short shifting through the first three gears despite the taaaalllll gearing needed for running that top speed.
Someone just (couple days ago) did 233.9 mph at the Texas Mile on one. (213.1 mph in the half mile on the way there, too.)
https://www.facebook.com/ChrisBurns...904400/1982673855105446/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
Stock wheelbase, too ... short shifting through the first three gears despite the taaaalllll gearing needed for running that top speed.
Roadghost
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Impressive. Not sure what all the differences are in the two bikes. Kawasaki surely isn't telling. I see he used taller gearing, but does the H2R do it that way or is it doing it with higher RPMs from a better breathing engine and more boost? IMO the stock H2, which I genuinely love and would own if I was a race bike person, is surely a real handful for the best of hobby racers even on the track. I can't see going H2R for anything but prize money on a track.
It's actually fairly well known what the differences are between the production H2 and H2R. The important ones are: Rev limit (14,000 vs 13,000), cam timing (substantial), the R has a lower compression ratio achieved by a higher deck height on the block (cylinder head and pistons are the same), ECU tuning, tires (DOT vs slicks). The bodywork is different despite looking similar. The R has the air filter up front where the street one's headlight housing is, and the street one has the air filter at the supercharger inlet, but despite this, the street one's intake configuration is not restrictive and this is not a limiting factor.
What the aftermarket has figured out, is how to build an intercooler into the stock (pressurized) airbox. That has allowed regearing the supercharger to spin it faster for more boost without melting down (most of the time).
I know of someone local who had one that was tuned and intercooled, and blew it up, but it was a connecting rod that let go, not a piston meltdown (which happened a few times before the intercooling got figured out). That bike had a hard life, with lots of dragstrip and top speed runs. It has been rebuilt, now with Carillo rods and who knows what else. Same shop rebuilt that one, which built the one in the video above ...
What the aftermarket has figured out, is how to build an intercooler into the stock (pressurized) airbox. That has allowed regearing the supercharger to spin it faster for more boost without melting down (most of the time).
I know of someone local who had one that was tuned and intercooled, and blew it up, but it was a connecting rod that let go, not a piston meltdown (which happened a few times before the intercooling got figured out). That bike had a hard life, with lots of dragstrip and top speed runs. It has been rebuilt, now with Carillo rods and who knows what else. Same shop rebuilt that one, which built the one in the video above ...
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