A Suzuki Hayabusa With a Rear Track Proves Everything Is Better With ’Busa

Most snow bikes don’t start as 1,300cc super sport bikes, but maybe they should.

So as someone who’s never lived somewhere that it snows a whole bunch, the concept of “snow bikes,” aka dirt bikes with rear tracks and front skis rather than wheels, is kind of a new one. What isn’t a new concept is just how damned silly the 155-horsepower (to the wheel, according to Motorcyclist magazine) Suzuki Hayabusa is in basically any situation. What do you get when you combine the two? According to Grind Hard Plumbing Co on YouTube, you get a good time.

The second most surprising thing about this conversion is not that it happened at all – where there’s a will, there’s a way – but that it was seemingly not that hard to do. Yeah, some fabrication was necessary, but in the world of custom motorcycle anything, it seems pretty minimal.

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