VOL. 53 ISSUE 8 MARCH 1, 2016 P67
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
I
t's a flutter; a high-pitched
squeal that serves a warn-
ing: things are about to get
serious. You're in the danger
zone. Hold on.
Coercing the Kawasaki
Ninja H2 into emitting this war
cry is dangerous practice,
like poking a rattlesnake with
a stick of dynamite.
This man-made contradic-
tion of all things sensible
exists on a super-sized diet
of compressed atmosphere.
Great chunks of life-giving
oxygen enters the super-
charger from the left side
of the front cowling and is
forced down the intake at up
to 100 meters per second,
creating a destructive but
ultimately controlled force
that vaults you into your near
future at incredible velocity.
Ah, velocity. A subjective
topic if ever there was one.
What's fast to me may not
be fast to you, as our unre-
lated brains process the art
of moving distinctly from one
another. That's one of the
marvelous things about being
human: each person sees the
world differently, interpreting it
in their own individual way.
Yet as I click up through
the gearbox on this super-
charged silver bullet, throttle
wound back hard, I am con-
vinced this is a machine even
those with Top Fuel dragster
In the land of
Kawasaki, one Ninja
stands above all others
THE
ULTIMATE
NINJA
