SuperBike Magazine July 2020
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TO<br />
BLOW...<br />
OR NOT TO<br />
BLOW<br />
Clint recently had the opportunity to take two very<br />
special motorcycles for a ride, at first glance, what’s so<br />
special about them? a Triumph 1050 Speed Triple and a<br />
Suzuki B-King. But look a little closer and see what Turbo<br />
plumbing is around the engine and then ask the same<br />
question again.<br />
By Clinton Pienaar Pics by Beam Productions<br />
First off the question of why has to be asked, well in<br />
these trying economic times to upgrade to a new<br />
bike fairly often and taking the value depreciation<br />
into account, can’t you just spend a little more cash<br />
on your current bike that you love and make it even<br />
better? And will you be making it better if you ad<br />
something so intrusive as a turbo to an already nice<br />
to ride bike, can you make it better and what about reliability<br />
or are you going to have a temperamental two wheeler in your<br />
garage?<br />
Well Neels Geldenhuis from fast by Neels, one of SA’s most<br />
well know motorcycle racing mechanics reckons for not too<br />
much money, you can turn your normal bike into something fun<br />
to ride. Just look at the world of the 4 wheel guys, most cars now<br />
offer turbo’s with variable blades and twin scroll turbos, so why<br />
so few in the biking world?<br />
First off I was on the 1050 Speed Triple, with a sure amount of<br />
trepidation I filtered into the track but I should have not been so<br />
fearful, the power was smooth and progressive I started to accelerate<br />
harder and harder, the sound on over run together with<br />
the triples exhaust is just magical. Neels has not made it wild,<br />
he can if he wants to but he wants the guys to spend money with<br />
him for a long time and does not want to scare them he says<br />
laughing. As I put a little more heat into the tyres I started going<br />
faster and faster. I got to tell you, this is a welcome addition to<br />
any motorcycle and to this Triumph it just made it into such a<br />
fun motorcycle. The whole ride was much more engaging and<br />
not once did it intimidate me. Dyno figures are impressive, 192 Hp<br />
and 154 Nm, compression ratio is down to 8.5 but Neels reckons<br />
he can get it up to 300 Hp but then it becomes a widow maker.<br />
The price for this is about R60k.<br />
They then started the B King, immediately this sounded<br />
different, never mind the 350 cc capacity enlargement, this just
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