‘We realise that road riders are going to be hugely disappointed with the neutered down H2 version, but reliability and warranty costs were obviously the primary deciding factor for this bikes specific output while the huge fanfare drummed up surrounding a largely unusable 320bhp on track would take months to subside during which time industry boffins will have no doubt predicted a buying frenzy for such ground breaking technology from those well heeled collectors wanting a piece of the action to old timers suffering from senile dementia attempting to relive their zed 900 whoops a cb750 wonder years, but a regular track-day enthusiast wouldn’t dream of dropping €50,000 on ANY Kawasaki, preferring instead to take liberties with talent and mangle around 5 perfectly fast and reasonably priced superbikes on circuit instead, regardless had the Kawasaki been gold-plated, had a kilo of while powder under the seat and a gaggle of brazillian hookers with tight asses and rubbery lips making hiterto expressions thrown in for good measure to sweeten the otherwise pitiful paddock stand deal but Jay Leno has set the superstar hollywood price at launch and he’s the expert when it comes to exclusive, weird and wonderfully impractical shyte to show off while hobbling about like an obese magpie in your garage, it does however raise the bar (if you’ll pardon the pun) for other attempts at mainstream forced induction from more reliable manufacturers designing a hyper superbike for the autobahn which blows a prophylactic 200bhp into the weeds and if anything, really highlights the efforts and value of specialist tuners such as holeshot engineering who will bolt on 100bhp for the equivalent cost of just one of those carbon fairings on that Kawasaki should bikers require more 00mph rather than superfluous spiel down the pubs’