Page "Suzuki Katana" Paragraph 8

In 1980 at Intermot, the Cologne motor show, came the ED-2, an version based on the Suzuki GS 1100.

Today, the only Katana-prototype outside Japan stands in Austria's Motorradmuseum Eggenburg northwest of Vienna.

This was followed in 1981 with almost no changes to the production version, which is often seen as the Katana, as the design was so distinctive.

The design was so successful in its basic form that these additional components were never made, apart from a small wind deflector screen.

The unusual overlapping dials on the instrumentation were the result of arranging the mechanical components to fit as closely together as possible to reduce weight and costs.