As the supercharged motor barks into life you already know there’s something different going on beneath the minimalist fairings. Blip the throttle and the supercharger whirs as the induction pressure sucks the landscape towards its nose, along with every curious human within its vicinity. It sounds like nothing else on the road – and feels like nothing else, too.
The aggressive power pushes you to use a higher gear, for example taking the corner in third instead of second, even using third for a hairpin. It has so much power and torque to pull you from low down, that being at the top of the rev range just isn’t necessary. Even short-shifting between corners delivers incredible drive. It’s like nothing else you can buy, especially in third and fourth gear where you’d expect the brutality to wane a little but it doesn’t. It’ll eat every other road bike for breakfast in these two gears. People should never challenge this H2 rider to a roll-on shoot-out!