Yamaha launched the YZF-R1 after redesigning the Genesis engine to offset the crankshaft, gearbox input and output shafts. This "compacting" of the engine yielded a huge dividend in that the total engine length was now much shorter.
Obviously Kawasaki UK didn't have one, it being a deleted model and all, but as I trawled my contact book's worth of friendly dealers across the country, I found the same story everywhere.
I stumbled across a mint 1992 twin headlight FireBlade a few months ago, nestling inconspicuously among the massed ranks of used bikes at a local dealership, and it stopped me dead in my tracks and sucked me straight back to 1992.