American company Motus decided to make a crazy supercharged version of the MSTR sport touring bike. To be fair, there’s almost nothing Cafe Racer about the Lone Star 2, maybe the seat, but the machine is still an amazing creature with its aggressive lines and its magnificent 230hp supercharged V4. The Lone Star, built around the a Ninja H2 chassis, is specially designed for the Handbuilt Motorcycle Show, which will be going to take place in Austin, Texas.
Motus Lone Star 2 Concept
Motus Motorcycles, builders of V4 sport touring bikes has just revealed a new concept bike called the Lone Star 2. According to Motus co-founder Brian Case, the bike is a Cafe Racer. We didn’t find much Cafe Racer-like lines on the bike though – the Lone Star is rather a muscular custom naked with a retro seat and headlight. We still like the aggressive lines, the white painted fuel tank, the rims, and of course the large, cool-looking 1650cc V4 engine.
Single, retro headlight
The Lone Star is built around the modern H2 chassis, incorporated with additional power with a bracket mounted. This was necessary because of the supercharger which sits on the left side of the engine. The supercharger is actuated by the alternator pulley and it has basically no lag at all. Of course that means that you have to deal with insane acceleration even at low-revs.
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To achieve these performance numbers, the engine got a custom tuned ECU, a high lift cam, lower compression Mahle pistons and a set of 4-2-1 tri-y stainless exhaust headers with an Akrapovic GP slip-on muffler. The result is 50 more horses over the stock setup which produces 180hp. The guys at Motus mounted a pair of Pirelli Angel GT tires onto a pair of one-off 7-spoke BST carbon fiber wheels.
The V4
The one-off machine was specially designed for the Handbuilt Motorcycle Show so if you want to have a good look at the bike, you have to go to Austin, Texas.
