In the field of preparations there are striking jobs, but the Matt Spears exceeds any expectation. This Yankee content creator set out to join two worlds that should never be crossed: a light Honda CRF 450 of motocross and the imposing motor of a superbike like the Suzuki Hayabusa. Yes, in the video that we show you on this occasion, you have the whole project from the beginning. A footage that, without a doubt, you cannot miss.
It all started in Hell’s Gate, a natural escalation in Utah that has become a challenge for motorists and enduro pilots. Spears tried to overcome it with a Hayabusa Practically series, a model designed to reach more than 300 km/h on the road, but never to climb for impossible rocks and land.
After several attempts and a spectacular fall, the motorcycle was seriously damaged. However, the 1,299 cc tetracylinder engine, heart of the beast, left that test alive. And, he was ready for the next madness of this young creator.
And, as we are telling you, instead of discarding it, Spears decided to recycle it in a crazy project: transplant it to a Honda CRF 450a motorcycle motorcycle designed for agility and control, not to contain a motor block of almost 90 kilos. As data, the engine of the Hayabusa weighs almost the same as CRF whole in empty.
Integrating it into a chassis designed for a single -cylinder of just 30 kilos forced surgical work. Spears And his team modified the chassis supports, reinforced key areas and redesigned the geometry of the motorcycle so that the set would not be unusable.
This is Matt Spears’s CRF Hayabusa
Without a doubt, one of the great challenges was the mass distribution. By adding so much weight, the center of gravity changed completely, which compromises maneuverability in closed jumps and curves. To compensate for it, they had to retire elements such as the admission system and the new fuel tank.
Another complex chapter was cooling. The original radiator of the Hayabusa It was too big and incompatible with the Sling. A more compact system was designed, adapted with components of Suzukiwhich maintains the temperature under control in a recreational use, although it would hardly support long batches or an extreme enduro.
As we are telling you, the fuel tank also had to be rebuilt. The original of the Hayabusa I was unusable, and Spears He made a smaller one with welded sheet and rescuing the Superbike fuel pump. The problem: autonomy is very limited, because the tetracylinder engine devours gasoline at a rate that none CRF I could assume.
Like any mechanical graft, this project is not exempt from commitments. The distance to the ground was drastically reduced, the exhaust is too close to the front tire in strong compressions and the alignment of the chain still raises doubts that will only be resolved in real tests.
Even so, Spears He ensures that the objective is not to build a competition motorcycle, but an extreme toy, capable of generating spectacular content for his followers and, above all, of giving him the satisfaction of having materialized an impossible idea.
YouTuber is no stranger to this type of “mechanical follies”Before, and as we told you at the time, I had already surprised to transform a Ducati Panigale V4 In a kind of improvised cross motorcycle, replacing wheels and suspensions to put it in off-road terrain. Now, with this CRF Hayabusahowever, take a step further, mixing the agility of motocross with the brutality of a superbike.
Obviously, the Honda CRF 450 With motor of Hayabusa It is not a factory prototype or a serial production model. It is an experiment, a technical challenge and a show designed for the Internet. Its value is not in practicality, but in the demonstration that, with ingenuity and determination, it is possible to join two worlds that seemed incompatible.
Matt Spears He has created a unique motorcycle, which has no comparison in the market or in the circuits, but that fulfills its mission: attract looks, generate conversation and, above all, demonstrate that the passion for the two wheels does not understand limits.
