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The Spear (or Torpedo in PAL regions), is a heavy bike in Mario Kart Wii. It takes on an aerodynamic appearance. The character's emblem is always on the front and the character's colors adorn the face of the Spear. It is Dry Bowser's signature vehicle.

Hence its PAL region-name, it actually resembles a torpedo from sunken ships or a blimp converted with a bike, and two pairs of dual-exhaust ports on each side. It also resembles a Moto Guzzi V8. Its kart-counterpart is the Jetsetter.

Stats[]

Stat Name Stat Value
Speed
67/80
Weight
56/80
Acceleration
24/80
Handling
18/80
Drift
29/80
Off-Road
18/80
Mini-Turbo
18/80
Total 230

The Spear is a bike for experts only. All about speed, the Spear supplies much of that, having the highest speed value in the game among bikes. Combined with wheelies, this makes the Spear the best vehicle bar none on straightaways. The bike also weighs a hefty amount, making it good to push medium and lightweight racers around.

Unfortunately, the rest of the Spear's other characteristics are extremely poor. Its handling is the worst in the game for bikes, and it has the shortest mini-turbo in the game among bikes, although its sheer speed helps compensate. Even in spite of the very small mini-turbo, players should still use its mini-turbo to good effect, since the burst of speed combined from a mini-turbo and wheelie is phenomenal. Its offroad is also the worst among bikes, making it so the player has to be careful on tracks littered with offroad areas. Its acceleration is also poor to the point where it would be better to simply charge up a mini-turbo idly, although it does best the Flame Runner in this regard. It also has a poor drift value, although it's not the poorest among bikes, and the Spear is one of two heavyweight bikes to have inside drifting, so the drift stat is somewhat remedied for.

The Spear dominates in time trials on tracks near-completely lacking sharp turns such as Luigi Circuit, Mario Circuit and Peach Beach. Combined with the speedy Funky Kong, the Spear has been known to win many world and regional record time trials on such courses. The poor drifting capabilities and small mini-turbo, however, make the Spear a horrible choice on tracks littered with sharp turns, such as Mario Circuit 3. Its lack of versatility with regards to sharp drifting tracks makes it less viable in online play than other bikes like the Mach Bike and Flame runner, which have much sharper drifting and still boasting above-average speed.

Unlocking Criteria[]

  • Unlocking 12 Expert Staff Ghosts in Time Trials.
  • Win 200 WFC races.
  • Or play 3,600 races.

Color Schemes[]

Wario- Yellow body, Purple stripes, Blue windshield

Waluigi- Indigo body, Yellow stripes, Purple windshield

King Boo- Black body & windshield, Pink stripes

Donkey Kong- Brown body, Light-Green stripes, Aqua windshield

Funky Kong- White body, Red stripes, Teal windshield

Rosalina- Turquoise body, Yellow stripes, Dark purple windshield

Bowser- Green body, Orange stripes, Yellow windshield

Dry Bowser- White body, Black stripes, Blue windshield

Male Mii- White body, Blue stripes, Cadet-Blue windshield

Female Mii- Pink body, White stripes, Cadet-Blue windshield

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In-Game Screenshots[]

Trivia![]

  • The Spear is one of the seven vehicles to have a design-change other than a palette-swap: Bowser's and Dry Bowser's Spears' exhaust-pipes are positioned lower than the rest, and Rosalina's features shorter-handles than the others. The other six vehicles being the Booster Seat, Bit Bike, Flame Runner, Wario Bike, Shooting Star, and the Phantom.
  • The Spear holds the second most world records out of any vehicle in Mario Kart Wii behind the Flame Runner, holding eleven world records. Five of them are glitch world records, while the other six are non-glitch world records. Due to it being the fastest bike in the game, the Spear has seven of its eleven world records on tracks with few and wide turns: one on Luigi Circuit, two on Mario Circuit, two on Peach Beach, one on Yoshi Falls, and one on Shy Guy Beach.
  • The Spear has the worst drift in-game. The worst drifting stat goes to Phantom.
  • The Spear has the lowest stat total of any bike in the game, having a mere 230 points.
Mario Kart Wii vehicle parts
Karts Small Standard Kart SBooster SeatMini BeastCheep ChargerTiny TitanBlue Falcon
Medium Standard Kart MClassic DragsterWild WingSuper BlooperDaytripperSprinter
Large Standard Kart LOffroaderFlame FlyerPiranha ProwlerJetsetterHoneycoupe
Bikes Small Standard Bike SBullet BikeBit BikeQuackerMagikruiserJet Bubble
Medium Standard Bike MMach BikeSugarscootZip ZipSneaksterDolphin Dasher
Large Standard Bike LFlame RunnerWario BikeShooting StarSpearPhantom
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