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00:00Hello everybody, Zach Gords here with RevZilla and welcome to another episode of Daily Rider.
00:11Our guest today is the Suzuki Hayabusa, the famous Falcon.
00:16Very basically that is a 1300cc sport bike that weighs nearly 600 pounds and costs almost
00:21$20,000.
00:22It is big and bold and even though it came out almost 25 years ago, it is still very
00:28fast which hopefully we'll experiment with a little bit today.
00:31Ultimately it's a living legend of the motorcycling world and the question with bikes like this
00:35is kind of the same.
00:37Is it still good and valid in 2023 as a motorcycle?
00:41Well, there's nothing like a ride to work to find out, yeah?
00:44Buckle up everybody, it's Busa time!
00:54Okie dokie everybody, Suzuki Hayabusa, named after a peregrine falcon, I think, because
01:02peregrine falcons feed on blackbirds and at the time, the fastest bike in the west or
01:08perhaps the east maybe, was the Honda CBR 1100 Blackbird.
01:13So they went with the Falcon because it eats blackbirds.
01:16Kind of a fun genesis of the name and obviously just such a famous mark at this point.
01:23Everybody knows what Hayabusa means, heck, everybody knows what Busa means.
01:29So underneath this pearl white fairing here is a 1340cc inline 4, quite a large engine,
01:381.3 liter engine essentially, the size of lots of car engines, and it cranks out plenty
01:44of power.
01:45And when it comes to stopping, there's big old Brembo Stylema calipers and big rotors,
01:52I forget how big, 300 or 310 maybe?
01:55And it's good to have because it's a big bike, it's fast, and it's pretty heavy.
01:59Aside from that, pretty basic sport bike architecture.
02:03It's an aluminum twin spar frame, basic swingarm, basic exhaust routing, I scra- I did this,
02:09see this?
02:10I did that.
02:11I'm sad, I'm going to have to tell Suzuki that I did that.
02:14It was an accident, I didn't mean to.
02:16The pipes are massive on both sides, yeah, it just doesn't shy away from being big and
02:21bold and a statement, whether it's the full on white pearl paint, or the chrome strip,
02:28the big gills, the big exhaust pipes, the big sort of angry bird face, yeah, it's a
02:37statement kind of machine.
02:39And as with many Suzukis, we can fire up this dash here, you see this classic kind of twin
02:45analog dash with a little colored TFT in the middle, which is kind of classy, we'll take
02:49a closer look at that later.
02:51As with many Suzukis, it's got the single button start, which I kind of like actually,
02:55seems kind of gimmicky, but I think it's kind of fun actually.
03:03Inside, a beast lurks.
03:08Okay, let's get our boost on, shall we?
03:12Saddle up on this nice, thick perch.
03:15When it comes time to test passenger accommodations, keep in mind this little handrail here, which
03:19I'll talk about, and how kind of wide this little pillion perch is, despite it being
03:26very sport-bikey.
03:27All right, everybody, yes-ah, let's do it.
03:43Okey-dokey, let's talk about specs, as is tradition here on Daily Rider.
03:48I said this bike costs nearly $20,000, which is technically true.
03:53$18,799, I believe, is the base price.
03:59And you know, not a crazy price, I don't think, to ask, for a living legend, after all.
04:09And while we're stuck waiting for the train here, it's a good time to talk about seat
04:13height.
04:14It is listed at 31.5 inches, which is pretty average, regular old seat height.
04:18You can see there's a pretty significant bend in my knee here.
04:23I find it to be quite accommodating, actually.
04:26It's wide, it's kind of a girthy bike, being a big engine and heavy and all that jazz,
04:33but it's not so bad to sit on, and the seat is pretty wide and comfy.
04:38As for other specs, there's no claimed horsepower, technically, from Suzuki, though if you look
04:44it up, if you spend some time researching, you will see probably around 180 or 185 horsepower,
04:50and around 100 or 110 foot-pounds of torque.
04:53So horsepower numbers are sort of similar to 1,000 cc superbikes.
04:57The torque number is a little bit closer to something like a Goldwing, and a lot more
05:02torque on tap than a 1,000 cc sport bike, which we will experiment with practically
05:07at some point here.
05:09Other important specs, it is a 5.3 gallon gas tank, I believe, and when it was full,
05:15on the daily rider scales, 581 pounds, which is, you know, no featherweight.
05:21Yeah, I don't know what to say, except that when you open the throttle, you can kind of
05:24see why it's a serious lump of metal.
05:28Not going very slow on the on-ramps, good time to talk about ergonomics, and it's sort
05:35of a comfortable sport bike riding position here.
05:38Seat-to-peg distance is a little tight, but, you know, not as bad as an actual sport bike,
05:43and the lean to the handlebars is fairly aggressive, though not as aggressive as a true, you know,
05:50600 or 1,000 cc sport bike.
05:52It's on the sort of, like, comfortable end of the uncomfortable sport bike spectrum.
05:59As for opening the throttle, as I've alluded to a few times now, we'll do a quick experiment
06:04here.
06:05I went up to 6th gear on the Hayabusa, we're at 2,000 rpm, we're going 40 miles an hour
06:11in top gear, and I'm going to merge onto the highway here, and not even going to open the
06:15throttle, just going to twist it a little bit, and we're going 80, just like that.
06:21If you roll on 40 miles an hour to 80 miles an hour at two-thirds throttle or something,
06:27it's got a lot of thrust on tap, and I'll probably make at least a few more jokes about
06:31how much power it has and sort of allude to that in the rest of this episode, but to put
06:37a finer point on it right off the bat, I think part of the mystique of the Hayabusa is that
06:41you just never really have to open the throttle.
06:44You can, sure, and it's fun, but one of the things I really like about using this bike
06:48from day to day, even if you do want to accelerate quickly, it's kind of rare that you actually
06:53ever open the throttle, and as I said, I think that really adds to the legend of the Hayabusa
06:59in your own mind, when you sort of have this tickle in the back of your head that, I had
07:04never actually asked it to do everything that it could do, and yet, I'm satisfied, which
07:10is kind of a fun feeling, and I don't know, a little bit rare in the motorcycle world,
07:14I think.
07:15This speed, and this type of riding, if you want to truck along the highway, I mean, if
07:20you wanted to ride from Los Angeles to Seattle, or from Miami to Nashville, or Milwaukee to
07:26Houston, or Rome to London, you get it, you all get it, the point is, if you want to take
07:31a long trip, this bike would be pretty darn good, actually.
07:36It isn't hugely comfortable, it's a little bit tight in legroom for tall people, and
07:41it does offer a little bit of a crouch forward, but the seat is really thick and wide, and
07:48very comfortable, not once have I thought anything other than, this is excellent, about
07:55the seat, and it's just like, happy to cruise along like this, you know, going whatever
08:02it is here, 65, 70 miles an hour, and it's just very, very comfortable, and the engine
08:09is absolutely loping along, just, will do this all day, every day, until you're dead.
08:16Until you die of, you know, starvation, or thirst, or old age, or something like that,
08:20that's what I meant, not that the bike is going to kill you, just want that to be clear.
08:25And when you do cruise happily on the two lane tarmac, or even wider, say, fuel mileage
08:34was calculated about mid-30s, 30 to 37, or most of the tanks of gas I burned through
08:40on the Hayabusa, Arie borrowed it one day, and I won't go into any detail, I'll just
08:48say that he said he made very good time when he was riding out to run an errand, and that
08:55tank of gas was about 31 miles per gallon, so if you want to bring your average speed
09:01up to Arie Henning territory, you might see low 30s, but more than likely it'll be mid-30s,
09:07and with a 5.3 gallon tank, it gives you pretty good legs, actually, which is not necessarily
09:13something you'd expect from a large engine sport bike, but the Hayabusa is all about
09:17defying expectations, really.
09:20Truck traffic is really serious, glad we're clear of that business, we can get back to
09:24talking about sport touring on a Hayabusa, the important stuff, right?
09:28It's always been kind of interesting to me that the Hayabusa has this reputation for
09:32being a sport touring bike, because people will tell you that any motorcycle is comfortable,
09:38if someone rides an RS6 for three years, they're just going to tell you, yeah, it's pretty
09:41good, and it's pretty comfortable, and I didn't mind it, because you get used to what you're
09:45used to, and that's fine, I think it's an interesting curiosity that Suzuki came out
09:50with this bike to really just set the world on fire and redefine the ultimate sport category
09:55or create it, or whatever it claimed to have done with the introduction of the Hayabusa,
10:01and ultimately people just sort of gravitate toward what they want to do anyway, and the
10:05people that were interested in Hayabusas, many of them anyway, were interested in log
10:09and miles, and when they did so, they realized the bike actually was fairly comfortable.
10:14Kind of makes me happy that this sledgehammer of a motorcycle that was supposed to be this
10:20shot across the bow to the industry and fire and brimstone is the bike that a lot of people
10:25are sort of like, yeah, I like just spending my days on it, cruising down the road, it's
10:29nice.
10:30That being said about all the touring chops, the mirrors aren't great.
10:34They're like a little small and a little bit far away, and the placement is okay, they're
10:39just, yeah, the field of view isn't awesome.
10:43Dead smooth though, I gotta give the Hayabusa that.
10:47Gonna row down through the gearbox with the quick shifter, it's a good time to mention
10:52perhaps that the quick shifter is very good on this bike, in my opinion.
10:58Just buttery smooth, like especially down here, like between 3 and 5,000 RPM, boop,
11:04boop.
11:05Excellent.
11:06Dead smooth, up or down, really, really nicely tuned.
11:10All right, stop sign challenge on this 600 pound sport bike, and I screwed up the first
11:14stop sign, can't be that surprised I suppose.
11:19Let's change the ride mode, shall we?
11:22We'll go from ride mode A, which is the most aggressive throttle map and least intrusive
11:27electronics, to ride mode C, which is one of the more tame ride modes, with low power
11:37level and so on and so forth.
11:39We'll see how stop sign number two goes now that we're in C mode, maybe C for city, it's
11:44not really, but, oh, I screwed that one up too.
11:48Yeah, it's not a very easy bike to do footless stops on.
11:54The weight is like carried fairly low, I suppose, just because it's kind of a long and low bike
11:59in general, but it's not necessarily easy to handle, I wouldn't say.
12:06Can you get one stop, footless stop, Zach?
12:09Oh my gosh, that was a close one.
12:13I think we did it though.
12:14I don't actually like ride mode C.
12:16Oh geez, oh geez, nope, no, I don't want to do that.
12:18I want to go to ride mode B. Nope, ride mode B. Ride mode B. Come on.
12:25Okay, now we're in B mode.
12:27I'm going to try this stop sign.
12:29Can we do this one?
12:30Nope, nope.
12:32Oh, this Hayabusa is my white whale when it comes to the stop sign challenge, which is
12:42not the only comparison to a white whale that this bike might encounter, you might say.
12:50Let's do something I know that I can do, which is talk about the dash instead of trying to
12:55do stop sign, footless stops, which isn't working.
12:58So like I said, two big analog dashes, big gauges here, rather, Speedo over here that
13:04goes up to 180 miles an hour just in case you need it, and a nice big analog tack over
13:11here.
13:12That's a nice look of the dash.
13:13Analog fuel gauge over there and temp gauge on this side, which I think is also kind of
13:17fun.
13:18And then this little TFT, color TFT in the middle of the dash there, which I think works
13:23quite well.
13:24You can adjust ride modes as I just did.
13:26It's where you'll see cruise control.
13:28So if you turn cruise on, you can see it changes to cruise control instead of seeing a gear
13:31position indicator or the power mode rather.
13:34And it's packed with good information.
13:36You can cycle through some stuff that, oh no, I screwed it up.
13:39Let me see here.
13:40You got to go down to the trip meter mode situation there.
13:46And if you hold down one of these buttons here, you can go into this menu here where
13:51you can change display settings, ride modes, hill hold, yeah, units and brightness, detail,
13:58all this sort of administrative stuff here, you know.
14:01But in my opinion, it's quite a good dash.
14:03Comprehensive and allows you to dig into plenty of options, but it's nice and clean to look
14:07at and satisfying to use, in my opinion.
14:10Okay, I talked about the dash.
14:11We can have a green light now.
14:12Thank you so much.
14:13Thank you so much.
14:14Excellent.
14:15Excellent.
14:16You might have seen a little LF, I think it is, on the dash there, which is lift control
14:27or something like that, wheelie control, basically.
14:30So when I accelerated just then, the bike said, no, no, no, no, front wheel, you stay
14:35on the ground, which is an update that this motorcycle got in 2021 or two, I believe,
14:43fairly recently, was to get a complete revamp of full suite of IMU electronics and launch
14:50control and a speed limit setting where you can set the limit of the bike to 65 or 85
14:55miles an hour, and then it won't let you go over that, but it'll let you play around beneath
14:58that.
14:59So yeah, I got a pretty comprehensive suite of electronics in the most recent update,
15:03which I think is good.
15:05Comprehensive enough to call the Hayabusa state of the art, which it was getting a little
15:09bit long in the tooth before that, because I think the previous update was 2013 or something
15:13like that.
15:14So, okay.
15:16Final stop sign.
15:17Can we get a foot of the stop in?
15:18Can we do it?
15:19Yes.
15:20I did it.
15:21It was, uh, it wasn't super graceful, but I got one or two in there finally.
15:28I'm going to go back to mode A. I like mode A. Actually, come on.
15:35Not there yet.
15:36I'm going to go to, I'm going to go to mode U1 because user one is the mode that I programmed
15:49that has the slightly softer throttled map, but the lower, um, settings for intrusion
15:55of electronics, if you know what I mean, all right, it's time for a cruise control, uh,
16:03passenger tests, patent pending, trademark daily rider.
16:08If we pop our way back onto the passenger pegs here, um, similar to the riding position
16:13on the actual bike, it's, uh, it's very, it's sporty, but the seat is wide and thick and
16:20comfy and there's that handhold that I talked to you about before.
16:23That's actually quite nice.
16:25Makes you feel secure.
16:26You don't have to lean forward quite as much as the rider if you don't want to on the passenger
16:30pegs.
16:31So it's better than the accommodations you need to ride across town.
16:34In my opinion, it's quite nice and maybe not like all day road trip comfortable, like touring
16:39bike comfortable, but, but surprisingly good for what the Hayabusa is.
16:45Alrighty.
16:46Off into the twisty road section of the daily rider route.
16:51And this is where there's a real split in expectations for the Hayabusa.
16:55I think there are true sport bike people, some of whom commented on the Instagram post
17:01and said, Oh, what a hilarious, like, it's not really a sport bike.
17:04What a joke.
17:05It's such a pig.
17:06It must be just so awful to ride through a set of corners.
17:09Well it's not.
17:10And then there are some people that might think of it as a sport bike, you know, they
17:14go, Oh, it's a GSX 1300R, right?
17:17It's a sport bike.
17:18It must be great in the corners.
17:19Well, it's not exactly a GSXR in the corners.
17:23It's somewhere in the middle, but it's, it's, I think much more pleasant and, uh, and confidence
17:28inspiring to ride through a set of curves than people in general expect or think of
17:35a 600 pound, 1300 CC bike.
17:38It sort of starts with the engine, which is smooth and sort of gentle when you need it
17:42to be and fast when you need it to be.
17:44And it's sort of planted and balanced and it just doesn't do anything unpredictable.
17:49It's stable.
17:51It's not perfect.
17:52It's heavy.
17:53I mean, you know, when you move the thing from side to side, it doesn't feel agile and
17:57light.
17:59It's very sure-footed and not difficult to use in any way, in my opinion.
18:05Another little fun fact in the history of the Hayabusa was that the first launch, the
18:09very first press event where the bike was introduced to the global motorcycling press
18:13was at Catalonia circuit in Spain.
18:15They turned journalists loose on, on a MotoGP track, basically on the Hayabusa.
18:21So Suzuki was looking to promote this, the sporting aspect of it.
18:24And they wanted people to be able to hold the sucker wide open down the massive kilometer
18:28long Catalonia front straight.
18:31And I believe a few journalists crashed, but that's neither here nor there.
18:36The point of the story of this evolution is that that was a slightly different bike, all
18:39things considered.
18:40I believe it was 1298 CC engine.
18:44The displacement bump to 1340 happened in 2008, then the bike got ABS in 2013.
18:52And then that comprehensive suite of sort of a state-of-the-art 2020s electronics with
18:58an IMU and all that jazz just a couple of years ago.
19:01So it has had some evolutions.
19:03It's easy to look at the Hayabusa and think, well, it's just the same old bike that Suzuki
19:06is parading around the motorcycle world for 25 years.
19:10But it is, it has gone through some evolutions, a larger engine and, and the like.
19:17So credit where credit's due, I suppose.
19:21Well, let's do a little second gear roll on here, 30 miles an hour, open the throttle.
19:25Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, everybody just take it easy.
19:32It's such a delicious rush of power because it's so strong everywhere in the rev range
19:37that you just, you just keep thinking like, well, okay, that's gotta be it.
19:41And then it just like, it ramps it up slightly a little bit more and slightly a little bit
19:44more and slightly a little more until it's at nine or 10 or 11,000 RPM.
19:48And, and you're tearing a hole in space time continuum.
19:52It's intense and ridiculous and delightful, in my opinion.
19:57Okay, red light, we talk about them brakes.
20:02Brakes are solid Brembo calipers, you can't actually see the brakes because they're so
20:08wide at the front, oh goodness.
20:11But anyway, good brakes, rubber lines, I believe.
20:16Still, very sharp, solid brakes, which is a good feeling when you're, when you've got
20:25all that atomic thrust on tap.
20:36Alrighty, so perhaps it's time to reflect on what we talked about at the beginning of
20:41the show.
20:42Is the Hayabusa still a good bike?
20:44Is it still valid these days?
20:46And I think to a certain extent, it is kind of clinging to the fame of a bygone era, as
20:52I said before, but it's so good at what it does that it's hard not to be charmed by the
20:58engine and the character of the bike.
21:02I think the big thing that stands out to me is Suzuki's own GSX-S1000 GT Plus, right?
21:09That's the 1000cc sort of K5 power plant that Suzuki's been putting in lots of bikes
21:15over the past few years, and they made a sort of sport touring bike out of it.
21:19And it's so good.
21:21And that's kind of a modern concept of here's what a sport touring bike can be.
21:25Here's what sport touring performance can be.
21:29And I think in that way, the Hayabusa is long in the tooth.
21:33It represents something that isn't necessarily top of mind for people, this sort of like
21:40ultimate hypersport or whatever you want to call it.
21:43And I think that there's at least one more evolution of the Hayabusa that could happen
21:51and make people happy.
21:53But in general, it's still a great bike, even if it's conceptually long in the tooth.
21:59It's a great bike and really fun.
22:02And obviously very good at going down a dirt road, which we'll find out here.
22:09Let's see here.
22:10Let's mess around with the electronics a little bit, shall we?
22:14User one.
22:15Okay, so in here, we can turn off TC.
22:17Yeah, let's try that and turn off traction control.
22:22Yeah, I don't know why.
22:25We'll give that a try, right?
22:27Why not?
22:28Okay, off we go.
22:29No traction control.
22:30Oh, it's muddy.
22:37That was fun initially, but I'm going to take it easy.
22:40We're going to take it easy here next to this lake that still has not dried up.
22:46You know, even the suspension and the seat, it's just like surprisingly comfortable doing
22:50this.
22:51Surprisingly.
22:52Would I recommend it?
22:55No.
22:56It's surprisingly good.
22:58Also, just like that, you know, like when it spools up in the dirt, it's just so predictable.
23:06It feels like the engine's made for flat track.
23:09It just works so well.
23:11Why does it work so well to do that?
23:12It's a gentle giant, I tell you.
23:16It was more fun than I thought it was going to be.
23:18All right, let's see if I can change this traction control setting without diving into
23:21the menu there.
23:22I think you can just...
23:23Yeah, there we go.
23:24So you can just do it right from the dash here, Zach.
23:25Come on, man.
23:26Hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya, hiya.
23:30Okay, everybody.
23:31Do we think we can get a wheelie out of the GSX-R 1300?
23:36Let's just open the throttle and see what happens.
23:46A couple of things happen when you do a wheelie on a Hayabusa.
23:49One, you feel like you're like eight feet off the ground because it's so long, you just
23:52sort of like cantilever yourself up in the air.
23:55And also, the front of the bike comes up in front of your face and you can't really see
23:58where you're going.
23:59You got to, you know, you got to like peek around the side or something.
24:01Have you ever seen a picture of, you know, someone doing a wheelie on a Hayabusa and
24:08they're like throwing a little bit of style into it and going like this to peer around
24:10the bike?
24:11It's probably because they need to see where they're going because the thing is so tall.
24:15Pretty fun wheelie bike, though.
24:16All you got to do is breathe on the loud stick.
24:19Just go, wha, and it'll go, hiya.
24:26The last test that needs to be run, of course, is can you back it in?
24:35And we're going to go fourth to first here and we're going to try to get, we got a little
24:40swerve, but you can't adjust the ABS as far as I know.
24:42You can correct me from the comments if I'm wrong, but, yeah, I didn't see ABS in the
24:48settings anywhere and I don't think there's a secret button, so you kind of got to trick
24:52the bike.
24:53I believe there's a slipper clutch because it works.
24:55The back wheel doesn't hop around or anything, but not great for backing it in, sadly.
25:01Still, ABS, as always, a recommended feature on any bike as far as I'm concerned, especially
25:07one with the power of the gods.
25:10Heyo, everybody, luck of the draw.
25:13We got three parking spaces to a U-turn and we might need them all.
25:18All right.
25:21Here's the baby, first gear, slow down.
25:24We're going to go in this parking space here.
25:29We're going to go full lock left, feet up.
25:31Is that two and a half?
25:34Two and a half, I think.
25:36Two and a half parking spaces.
25:40You get used to it in a parking lot, but it is, more so than on a twisty road, very noticeable
25:48that it's heavy in these situations and not terribly easy to ride.
25:53I had a question at some point about this bike where someone said, what's its worst
25:57attribute?
25:58What's the worst scenario for riding conditions for a Hayabusa?
26:03Aside from motocross track or dirt or something like that, like city, super low speed stuff,
26:08it's fine.
26:09It's just so big.
26:11It's a freight train.
26:12On a straight section of track, it's peppy.
26:21Just love that kind of low idle grumble that it does.
26:25Sounds great.
26:26Good stuff.
26:27Okay.
26:28Let's answer some Instagram questions, shall we?
26:31Okie doke.
26:32First question here is from Colin Fowler, which is not a question at all, actually.
26:36Colin Fowler writes, I've been riding 35 plus years, club racing also.
26:40I rode a 2017 Busa.
26:43I was not ready.
26:44I know there are faster, but dammit man, those things are intense.
26:47I really like this comment because I very much appreciate Colin Fowler raising his hand
26:52and saying, holy crap, that's a lot of motorcycle.
26:57And Colin has told us that there's plenty of riding experience in his past.
27:03Just, it's a lot of motorcycle.
27:06And I definitely feel that way sometimes when I ride it.
27:08It's a lot.
27:10I'm actually impressed that they even sell them to people, but I'm happy to have experienced
27:16it.
27:17Anyway.
27:18Next question is from Helmet Head Lyle, who writes, do you feel Suzuki should embrace
27:23the fate as a spicy sport tourer?
27:26And with that in mind, offer such a version, much like the Super Duke GT and be able to
27:29mount factory color match side cases.
27:32Yes, I do.
27:33And this is exactly what I was alluding to when I said that there's one more evolution
27:36of the Hayabusa that I think would make sense because it has ironically or otherwise developed
27:41this reputation as a sport touring bike.
27:44And because something like the GSX-S 1000 GT plus exists in Suzuki's lineup, I really
27:49feel like a Hayabusa GT plus would be so awesome.
27:54You wouldn't have to change the silhouette that much, if at all, just like slightly higher
27:57bars, slightly lower pegs maybe.
27:59And yes, some, some swoopy color matched hard bags.
28:02I know that the aftermarket or at least custom designers have made such things for Hayabusas
28:07and would it be a little bit silly?
28:09Yeah, but it would, it would just plug you into this engine in a more sort of like sustained
28:15and in more of a touring style.
28:18And I think it would work and I think it would be great because that GSX-S 1000 GT plus is
28:23great and the engine in that bike isn't nearly as good as the engine in this bike.
28:25So yeah, I love the idea of that.
28:28And we're talking the same language there, Helmet Head Lyle.
28:32I'm picking up what you're putting down.
28:33I smell what you're stepping in.
28:34Okay.
28:35Last question is from Jambani who asks, what is its purpose nowadays?
28:42It's not the fastest in a straight line.
28:44It's not the comfiest.
28:45It's definitely isn't the most agile.
28:47Is this a relic of a bygone era that we have moved past?
28:49Does it carve a niche unto itself?
28:52We touched on this a little bit in the video, but this does put a finer point on it.
28:55It's not the fastest.
28:56It's not the comfiest.
28:57It's not the this, it's not the that.
28:59So, so what is it actually, right?
29:00And I think that the short answer to the question is yes, it, it carves its own niche.
29:05It is its own thing.
29:06And that's why it's special.
29:08That's the reason it is what it is.
29:10It's so kind of unapologetically itself.
29:13I mean the BMW GS always comes to mind, the first GS, everyone said, why would you want
29:18a dirt bike?
29:19That's this heavy.
29:20Why would you want a street bike with a 21 inch front wheel?
29:22Why would you want this compromise?
29:24Why?
29:25And of course that turned into the whole adventure bike craze eventually, and people recognize
29:30it as something that was useful and good.
29:32And I think that maybe while this is not as utilitarian, it does have that thing, right?
29:37It might not be the fastest, but it is wicked fast.
29:40Are there more comfortable, faster bikes?
29:42I don't know that there are, you know, so it kind of, if you combine a couple of those
29:46attributes, it starts to take shape as its own thing.
29:50And I really love that about it.
29:52And it is, it is a charming bike and not just because it's so famous.
29:57Okay, everybody, thanks so much for hanging out.
30:00Stick with me.
30:01Let's put the sucker on the Daily Rider leaderboard.
30:02Here we go.
30:03Three, two, one.
30:04All right, everybody, here we go at RevZilla West with the Daily Rider leaderboard.
30:10We got the Hayabusa ready to rumble.
30:13At the top of the 23 leaderboard here is the sibling to the Hayabusa, SV650.
30:20And then an all-out sport bike, and then an electric urban runabout.
30:25Is the Hayabusa better than a CBR1000RRR on the commute, on the daily ride?
30:30Well, it depends what your daily ride is.
30:32It's heavier, which is annoying for like pushing it around the garage and that kind of thing.
30:35But in general, yeah, it's better than that bike.
30:39Is it better than an SV650?
30:42What would you rather have?
30:43No, no.
30:44What would you rather ride to work every day for a year?
30:49Be honest.
30:50What would it be?
30:53It'd be an SV650.
30:56That's what it would be.
30:58Pretty reasonable bike to ride around, a gentle giant, if you will, unless you ask it to not
31:02be gentle, and then it will melt your face.
31:07But a pretty fun bike.
31:08I want to take a quick trip down memory lane here to the previous iterations of the leaderboard.
31:15Let's talk about where we would kind of fall around here.
31:16Kawasaki versus 1000, that's a big, you know, quasi-ADV touring bike.
31:21That would be better than a Hayabusa, if I'm being honest.
31:26Is it as good as a BMW R1250RT police special?
31:32No, probably not.
31:33Probably not.
31:34Probably not.
31:35Where would it fall around here?
31:37Better than an S1000RR, probably not as good as a Rebel 500, though.
31:42That bike's awfully good.
31:44So maybe here, on the 22 leaderboard.
31:46A Yamaha R7, I'd probably still rather ride an R7 to work.
31:50A little less comfortable.
31:51I don't know, that's a tough one.
31:54Okay, so maybe above the R7.
31:56Not as good as a Royal Enfield INT650, I don't think.
31:59That INT650 is just such a sweetheart of a bike.
32:02Easy to ride, easy to use.
32:04Not expensive, not heavy, as a pretty good little bike, I think.
32:08So the Hayabusa, you know, up high on the 23 leaderboard, but there's not a ton of competition.
32:14On these leaderboards, we're down here.
32:15We're in the probably 40th percentile of bikes we've ridden on Daily Rider, just to give
32:20you a little bit of context.
32:21I feel honored to have it on the Daily Rider leaderboard, and I hope that everyone out
32:25there in the YouTube land enjoyed that ride to work.
32:29So as usual, thanks for sticking around, and I hope to see you next time.
32:34See you, everybody.
32:36Holy smokes, the truck traffic.
32:39Something exciting going on at the port.
32:42Perhaps the new Polly Pocket dolls came in.
32:44Why the hell did I say that?
32:47You remember Polly Pocket?
32:48Wasn't it like a little, it was like a tiny doll, I think?
32:54So does she fit in your pocket?
32:55I don't know.