SRT 500 V4 Factory

From MCN, the world's number one motorcycle publication
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MotoGP/500GP chassis and engine-builder Suter Racing is launching the bike it says fills the gap where a ‘real bike’ should be – for well-heeled trackday addicts. Pitching it as the ‘two-stroke Desmosedici’ – a factory GP machine for public – the bike will feature a new injected 500cc V4 producing over 200bhp, in an evolution frame based on the gorgeous Ilmor X3. Counter-rotating crankshafts will kill vibration and gyroscopic resistance to turning, and customers will be able to spec the bike up from a EUR50,000 base level to EUR90,000 to include carbon wheels, WSB forks and full titanium exhaust.

According to boss Eskil Suter the bike will be: “Powerful but easy enough for everyone to ride – until you try to squeeze the last few seconds of laptime out of it”. Traction control will not be necessary: “If you have a nice torque curve and throttle connection you don’t need it. It’s more for bikes with damaged torque curves, like highly-tuned four-strokes.”