Ask questions to Mr. Naoya Kaneko of Kawasaki Motorcycle Engineering/Racing Team!

[The_Big_K]

Wow - this is new to me ! -

CEan - Ash: Can you give us a brief overview of what it takes to design a high performance bike? What are various stages involved from concept to production?

Mr. Kaneko: Most of the design of a machine is based around the tyre and firstly we find out what the grip limit is for the type of tyre we'll be using to race with. We then take into consideration the weight distribution and power delivery to decide the best machine concept to work with the tyre, and gradually build our ideas from there.

Amazing! What say fellas?

[raj87verma88]

Thats new for me too. A great interview Biggie. Thanks for having him here.

[mayurpathak]

Yes, even I was surprised when we got that answer. But I guess there is great logic behind that too. After all the on road performance of a really good engine is all because of the tyres. What else?

[The_Big_K]

Yeah, of course tyres are important. But they are majorly responsible for the design of the bike is really surprizing!

Motorcycle enthusiasts & Automobile engineers can enlighten us more here.