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Why don't Japanese sport bikes have turbo or superchargers?

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There was a period “the weird 1980s”, where Honda, Suzuki and Kawasaki had turbo bikes. Possibly the most easily-recognisable is the Honda CX550 Turbo (a little later replaced by the better - in my opinion - CX 650 Turbo). read more

But the biggest thing in the modern two wheeler industry was the first production bike ever built with a supercharger. It is the Kawasaki Ninja H2. But then many must have asked that why did the bike come with a supercharger and not a turbocharger. read more

A proper, full-scale production bike and arguably the most well-developed of all the 1980s turbo machines from Japanese manufacturers. The one-year, 1983-only, 673cc CX650 Turbos had solved most of the lag problems that plagued the earlier CX500 Turbo, but to fix its problems Honda turned down the boost and upped the capacity and compression ratio, so its less turbo than the older version. read more

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