A BRIEF HISTORY OF SUPERCHARGING
With the arrival of and excitement generated by not just Kawasaki’s new supercharged H2 SX but also last year’s H2 and H2R, not to mention Suzuki’s eagerly expected new supercharged 650, the Recursion due next year, it’s easy to assume supercharged motorcycles are the very latest in hi-tech.
The truth, though, is quite the opposite. Although these modern examples are undeniably big news, supercharged bikes have actually been around for almost 100 years while in the 1930s it was as commonplace
