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Red Phoenix Rising
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Suzuki Hayabusa Twin-Turbo Phoenix
Michael Schulte
06/01/2007
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Photography by Earl “Crash” Gordon
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 Google "Hayabusa custom", and 12,000 hits will be your reward. Given the well-tilled condition of
that particular soil, how would you craft a revolutionary take on the Suzuki
racer that would blow the mind and scorch the eyeballs of even the most jaded
Custom Sportbike fiend? If you were McCoy Motorsports of Pikeville, Ky., you’d
take six months, spend a quarter-of-a-million dollars and hand-build this
mandible melting Suzuki Hayabusa Twin-Turbo Phoenix. (Click image to enlarge)
 Picking up the gauntlet thrown down by ESPN2’s "Metric
Revolution" build-off series, McCoy Motorsports set out to immolate conventions.
They contracted Velocity Racing to craft an astonishing 500 hp nitrous-injected,
twin-turbo engine—the only sportbike mill of its kind. Gregg DesJardins
hand-built both the trellis frame and the remarkable extended single-sided
swingarm, which doubles as a compressed air tank for the Pingel shifter. (Click image to enlarge)
The McCoys teamed with Gator Customs and Catalyst Composites to
design the "windowed" fairings and tail section that flaunt the engine and
nitrous setup like a gorgeous woman in a cutout skirt. When the sun goes down,
illuminated Gator Glass graphics and an LED unit ignite the Phoenix like a bolt
of crimson lightning. Finished with high-tech accents such as video monitors in
place of rear-view mirrors, this Phoenix chars the competition to cinders.
www.tobefast.com | 606.432.1556
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