It’s not entirely necessary, in fact it’s a ridiculous luxury in anybody’s terms. But that doesn’t mean it ain’t lovely
Got a spare £90,000 left on your Barclaycard? Fantastic. Spunk the lot on this li’l beauty – a genuine, customer-ready 500GP bike. The perfect tool for noise-sensitive track days.
Eskil Suter – one of the men behind the Ilmor MotoGP project and the Foggy Petronas effort – has teamed up with Italian bike builder Paton, to offer this exotic two-stroke V4 500cc racer.
The bike is claimed to produce 200bhp and weighs in at 125kg, using a similar chassis to the original Ilmor MotoGP four-stroke. Consider these figures for a moment: Ducati’s Desmosedici road bike has a power to weight ratio of 0.9bhp/ kg but the Suter 500cc GP racer has a jaw dropping power to weight of 1.6bhp/kg, putting it well on-par with a current MotoGP bike. Easily the fastest thing to leave the pits and hit the gravel at your local trackday.
We approve wholeheartedly. The world is decidedly worse off without the sickly-sweet smell of expensive synthetic pre-mix and the crisp howl of a stinkwheel’s expansion chamber in the sweet spot of the powerband. Somebody go out and buy one please.
