GSR600 on A2?

[MissBex]

Heya, quick question someone might know, got a friend wanting to do A2 soon and wants to know if a GSR600 can be driven on the A2 license if restricted?

I did the power to weight thing on a calculator and it came up with over the 47bhp limit of 48.1:

(0.26 (bhp per KG limit) x 185Kg (Bike Weight) = 48.1.

So I'm thinking not... but wanted to confirm.

Thanks in advance.
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00' Honda Hornet 600

[Jonathan A]

Under the new rules, I don't think a bike can be restricted to under half its original power. That is the only rule I think

[iMark]

According to:
https://www.visordown.com/reviews/motorcycles/naked/suzuki-gsr600-2006-2011/576.html

GSR 600's produce 89 BHP which is just shy of the upper limit..
89 BHP is roughly 66.4kw which is under the 200% of 35kw

also states the bike is 187kg which will be the dry weight I'm
assuming but that is 66.4/187 = 0.35kw/kg unrestricted.

35/187 = 0.19 (0.187165)kw/kg which is under the 0.2kw/kg limit.

35/185 = still 0.19kw/kg (0.189189)

also if the 187kg is the dry weight... adding oil fuel etc.. will push it to 190-215kg (1 litre of water is equal to 1kg and I assume petrol is similar weight to water)

35/190 = 0.18
35/215 = 0.16


TL:DR

The bike would be legal on a A2 Licence... It's under 0.2kw/kg restricted to 35kw/47bhp and doesn't produce more than 94bhp standard
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[MissBex]

Thank you, yeah seems to make sense how you've worked it out that it would be legal Thanks
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00' Honda Hornet 600

[Wonko The Sane]

isn't there a big list somewhere of bikes that are legal to restrict or is the list I've seen one that only includes bikes that are, as built, less than 47bhp?

[barrkel]

[Rogerborg]

The DSA have an online list now.

The GSR600 is not listed on the A2 (restricted) list, but that's twonk. By all the figures I can see, it's just fine to be restricted down to A2. I don't think the lazy gits have updated their list since January.

Actually, a lot of Suzukis squeeze in under the 70kW limit, while the Honda / Yamaha / Kawasaki equivalents fall just foul of it.
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