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COMPARISON TEST<br />
KawasaKi ZX14-R vs.<br />
suZuKi Hayabusa<br />
By Kent Kunitsugu<br />
PhotograPhy By Kevin Wing<br />
No mistaking which bike the<br />
new Kawasaki ZX-14R is aimed at —<br />
will it be able to topple the `Busa as King?<br />
It was inevitable, we suppose. the toughest kid on the block will always have someone looking to knock him<br />
off the top of the food chain.<br />
But for suzuki’s hayabusa, that reign as the king of brute horsepower (and speed, at least before the onset of industry-wide speed<br />
limiters brought on by european government hysteria surrounding the 2000 Kawasaki ZX-12r) has been uninterrupted since the bike’s<br />
release in 1999. even when the hayabusa underwent a significant update in 2008, it wasn’t as if the suzuki was in danger of being<br />
ousted from its throne; even a concerted effort by the previous gene<a title="88788_elite page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f0e0bbb9?page=1"> eLeCtroniCaLLy rePrinteD FroM June 2012 Clash </a>
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