It's pretty much out in the open now that Honda is going to gut the Blackbird and in a few seasons it will have a V-5 engine in it, perhaps with more displacement than the busa.
The busa has held the King of the Hill position since it stormed onto the scene a few years back, so what'll happen if the Blackbird eclipses the busa? We all know Suzuki has volountarily neutered the busa in an act of self-regulation, and by no means is Honda necessarily ready to follow that path.
(I do think Suzuki's actions at self-regulation are commendable, btw) It's an effort to keep the attorneys at bay. If it doesn't start happening, eventually the Fed Gov will step in and REALLY nueter the machines. That would be bad.
Anyway, I'm sort of digressing into a second topic there.
Will the busa lose some of it's mystique if it's eclipsed by another machine, say, next spring or the one after? It very well may happen someday soon.
Or am I just drunk?
The busa has held the King of the Hill position since it stormed onto the scene a few years back, so what'll happen if the Blackbird eclipses the busa? We all know Suzuki has volountarily neutered the busa in an act of self-regulation, and by no means is Honda necessarily ready to follow that path.
(I do think Suzuki's actions at self-regulation are commendable, btw) It's an effort to keep the attorneys at bay. If it doesn't start happening, eventually the Fed Gov will step in and REALLY nueter the machines. That would be bad.
Anyway, I'm sort of digressing into a second topic there.
Will the busa lose some of it's mystique if it's eclipsed by another machine, say, next spring or the one after? It very well may happen someday soon.
Or am I just drunk?