It looks like a standard Suzuki GSXR1300R Hayabusa, sounds like a standard Hayabusa and up to 5000rpm goes like a standard Hayabusa.
In 6th gear at 5000rpm 100mph (tested Bruntingthorpe), the turbo spools up you have about 1 sec before you either back off or hold on for your life.
Current boost settings reduced to 320bhp at the crank - 280bhp at the back wheel.
Why 6th gear, it picks the front wheel up in 4th, 5th is ok with full tank of fuel and fat driver leaning forward.
Trouble is you need about a mile of clear road before hand as you'll be there before you know it.
Current settings bike will top out at 210MPH, changing the spockets to accomodate the bike will go 235+ MPH without the boost increased!

Its really great to ride, easy and quite manageable, you can hear the turbo spooling as you hit 5000rpm and you have enough time to back off. Around town and urban roads its nice and easy to ride, no fuss or bother and no one notices the turbo tucked away.

In fact I took it to Fowlers Bristol for a service and new chain/ spocket set and whilst it was parked outside waiting for them to open several other riders arrived and didn't give it a second look, even the bloke next to it on a new one.

After a fag and a scratch, waiting someone asked why the presure gauge? When I expained it then became the centre of attraction and smiles.

The Fowlers engineer who servied it and test drove it told me he almost sh*t himself an could not believe how much power it delivered.

Not wanting to bore anyone here, but when I bought it the previous owner was very nervous for me and he must have told me 30 times during the transaction not to open it up at all on the 170 mile return journey, never in the wet or on cold tyres.

Well, obviously I listened and took heed for a while whilst following my wife back to Bristol. Until - she took a wrong turn and came back on the same bit of M/way. Well the sun was out, it was warm and dry, I had good knowledge of the road, it was clear, the tyres had 30 miles on them so they were warm and I had a smile. Not one of those happy smiles but a slightly nervous one. Peeling of the roundabout back along the way we came I opened it up in forth.

I can tell you know and I still have the feeling buried in my mind I had to pull over at the next services to calm down.

Not that I was too scared to ride it, nor was I shaking too much, I just needed to get off it - look at it - point at it and tell someone.

Now, just as the previous owner said you would - I go out to ride it, look at it and ask myself do I really want to..........

For all you bikers out there with big GSXR's, R1's, FireBlade powerful off the shelf full on race bikes with trick exhausts, remapped fuel injection etc you know what its like to know your bike is faster, sometimes you need to prove it and sometimes you are not so sure, but can you imagine knowing 99.99% that whatever pulls alongside - whatever you see in front or catching up from behind - you know you can leave it behind in the cloud of burning rubber and excessive smiles.

You don't just buy one, jump on it and go it can't be done and don't fool yourself you can. Would you pass you test and move from 44BHP to 180 and think you can handle it? So why think going from 180bhp to 320bhp could be the same? No....

I started 20 years ago on a FZR1000 Genesis, bored it to 1040 with Wisco pistons, gas flowed the head, 4-2-1 exhaust and it pulls 170 bhp. I still have it.It would pull finally........to 170.

Then got married, had 3 children and was off bikes for a few years.

Got back in with a CCM 604 (90 tops), then upgraded to a CCM710(over bored 644).

Moved up to a KTM990 with Akro's + tuned to 135bhp, which I still love to run to work.

I can tell you now, 280bhp at the back wheel is at another 3+ level's up. Its not so much the top speed, the fairing on this baby keeps you snug and quiet.
Its the raw pulling power trying to peel you off the bars in any gear, you really have to hang on very tight indeed. Hence why its fitted with a dead mans switch, if I pull back too far it cuts the engine - wise move that's why I am still here after finding that opening the taps in third is not very wise at all.

Another nice bonus if you want to advertise it locally is to start spooling the turbo up and let off dumping the excess gases through the waste gate. Usually enough to discourage anyone looking to be an idiot on a small road.

`Jack' Frost is the fastest thing on two wheels [Previous Owner]

Jarrod "Jack" Frost set a new outright UK motorcycle land speed record of 222.19mph on a turbocharged, 1,300cc Suzuki Hayabusa.

Imagine, if you can, covering a mile in less than 16 seconds On a motorcycle. You'd be able to lap the 37.73-mile TT course in under 10 minutes. Or, stretching credibility, you could circumnavigate the M25 in about half an hour, writes Alan Seeley.

Jack broke the record at the Performance Bikes Invitation Record Weekend at RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, his speed measured as a two-way average on the 2.2-mile airstrip through a flying quarter mile, annihilating the previous record of 213.01mph. On one run, he topped 227mph and nudged just past 217 in the opposite direction. In the process he became the first rider in the UK to do a sub-four second quarter mile - and nabbed the flying kilometre record, too.

Jack's bike looks innnocent enough, insofar as any Hayabusa looks innocent, but with the turbo on 1.5 bar boost it delivers 440bhp at the back wheel. All this proved a bit too much. Wheelspin at more than 200mph, anybody? Rather you than me. Jack set the record with the turbo backed off to give a more manageable 330bhp.