This is a GSX-R1000 dressed as the original Katana from the 1980’s. But this motorcycle is entirely different level
I’m not saying that this is a bad thing – to have a beast for the streets, that looks stylish on top of the performance bodywork. All these good-looking, old-fashioned, custom racers that are very often built for display. So let’s leave “the gentleman bikes” for a moment. As it was a build based on a really fast version of the legendary naked bike by Ducati… and it doesn’t even come close to what I bumped into while browsing. Based on a Monster donor bike, with a vintage vibe and candy looking paint and stylish titanium exhaust. All of this has been done by looking at the model from different angles and distances and varying the intensity of light, to evaluate shadows and reflections.I was just about to feature a Ducati build. Work has been done on volumes and ergonomics, then on surfaces, and details have been fine tuned. The block of Ureol was also used as a base for clay, a special clay that lends itself well to modeling, as it is easily ductile. This model was realized through a rapid prototyping process, by milling one block of Ureol from the solid (a particular modeling resin) with a numerical control machine. At the same time, 3D drawings were computerized and converted into a “physical” model, defining what then became a first style prototype of the final line of the new Suzuki. The supporting structure of the saddle is still based on steel tubes, but the double triangulation design has been transformed into an elaborate trellis to achieve a different, closer and higher driving position. Engines Engineering helped us in the challenge, the Company just outside Bologna, born in 1979 and directed by the engineer Alberto Strazzari a company specialized in the prototypes manufacturing, testing and road testing.Īfter months of work, our project has now come to an end and we welcome “Suzuki Katana”.Īfter having optically scanned the bike in all directions, the basic GSX-S lost the rear triangulation of support of the saddle to leave room for the new Katana frame. The idea of the “new Katana” has therefore an excellent starting point, and we thought then to an exceptional hand to draw the lines of our project: Rodolfo Frascoli, the father of Moto Guzzi Griso, Triumph Speed Triple and Tiger 1050. We defined this bike “Favolosa in the curves” and equipped with a “… good sports engine, with a lot of torque at low speed already, at medium speed it makes you cling to the handlebars and such a badness at top speed “. The original idea was not to banter it, but we rather wanted to pay tribute to one of the most interesting and innovative motorcycles ever built.Īs a starting point for “our” Katana we chose another Suzuki, the GSX-S1000F, a sport tourer with a liquid-cooled four-cylinder engine from 146 hp at 10,000 rpm. Since last spring we launched a very ambitious project, a crazy idea: we wanted to bring back to life one of the most interesting and innovative bikes of the eighties, even too daring and controversial in design for that time, the Suzuki Katana 1100. Together with him on stage, Alberto Strazzari (Engines Engineering – on the right) and Rodolfo Frascoli (the designer who traced the lines of the bike – on the left) A crazy idea Based on the GSX-S1000F, the new “Suzuki Katana” is made by Engines Engineering in collaboration with Rodolfo Frascoli and the Italian magazine Motociclismo.įederico Aliverti (director of Motociclismo) presents the “Suzuki Katana”. We have brought back to life one of the iconic motorbikes of the 1980s: the Katana 1100. Nov We brought back to life one of the iconic bikes of the 1980s: the Katana 1100
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