Early report from the Paris Show. Suzuki's uncorking the 2007 B-King 1300 naked bike.

The B-King, you may remember, was first seen as a concept bike at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2001. Back then it was wearing a supercharger, but apparently that was deemed too much fun for Joe Q. Rider so the poor production B-King has to make do with an ordinary unblown Hayabusa motor. Figure about 150 well-fed horses making their way to the 240mm rear tire.

Rear-end treatment with two jumbo up-pipes remains faithful to the concept bike, for better or worse.