What Happens When You Try an 'Impossible Climb' On A Hayabusa Dirt Bike
YouTuber Matt Spears is out doing ridiculous things on his dirt-bike-converted Suzuki Hayabusa, with dramatic results
It turns out anything can make a good dirt bike with some modifications and a bit of perseverance. Just look at Matt Spears and the ridiculous things he’s been doing with his DIY Suzuki Hayabusa trail bike - with a bit less bodywork and the right tyres, it really rips off-road.
In perhaps the bike’s (and Matt’s) toughest challenge yet, the knobbly-tyred ‘Busa takes on a hellish-looking hillclimb at an abandoned gold mine somewhere in Idaho. The first attempt…does not go well, frankly.
Jumping several times near the end and losing momentum, the Suzuki makes it just shy of the summit before Matt’s forced to abandon ship. Thankfully, he only tumbles a little way down the hill and isn’t seriously injured, but the Suzuki isn’t so lucky, smashing its way all to the bottom.
Along with an obliterated kill switch, the rear subframe is bent, causing it to contact the rear tyre when the suspension is compressed. The solution? Bodge the kill switch and remove the subframe, of course.
Shorn of yet more parts (there’s a lot less of the bike now than when Matt started), the bike is given one last shot, and actually makes it. Granted, Spears ends up bailing from the Hayabusa just after it leaps off the lip at the top of the climb, with the bike landing once more in a heap, but hey - that sure as hell counts.
Joining the Suzuki is a Stark Varg electric bike, which makes much easier work of the climb despite having less than half the power, simply because it’s able to deploy the whole lot much more successfully than the Hayabusa. But had Matt only been taking that thing up the hill, we probably wouldn’t be talking about it right now.
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Matt has a background in motoring journalism of the four-wheeled variety but has long had a passion for motorbikes, taking his first steps into riding in 2010.
