Alex Chacon of Modern Motorcycle Diaries doesn’t have to travel across the world to find adventure on the 2016 Vulcan S Café. His advice is simple, “Hop on your bike and let the adventure come to you.”
The Ninja H2, Ninja ZX-14R and Ninja ZX-10R – Kawasaki’s top-of-the-line flagship supersport models – all offer high levels of riding excitement. But where the Ninja ZX-14R stands apart is for its great flexibility. Compared to the very focused concepts of the Ninja H2 and Ninja ZX-10R, the Ninja ZX-14R’s engine and chassis tuning both […]
Giving the latest in the Ninja line its public debut on 8 October in Barcelona, Spain, Kawasaki chose the home town of the Kawasaki Racing Team for good reason. Developed in close cooperation between KRT and Kawasaki factory in Japan, the ZX-10R for the coming year has benefited from the input of two Kawasaki Superbike […]
Jonathan Rea (KRT) took the 13th and 14th race wins of his remarkable championship-winning season today during the 12thround of the FIM Superbike World Championship at Magny-Cours in France. He also broke through the 500 points mark, with one round and two races still to go. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) was second and then […]
Turkish rider Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) became a four-time FIM Supersport World Champion today after securing a second place finish in a shortened 11-lap Magny-Cours race. It was his second world title on the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R since he became a Kawasaki rider in 2012. Kenan’s fourth championship came after fighting in what were […]
NOW that the initial fuss caused by the arrival of the supercharged Kawasaki H2 and its racetrack-only H2R sibling has subdued, it’s time to perhaps take a look back at the origins of forced-induction engines in motorcycles. Back in the ‘30s supercharged racing motorcycles were all the thing, and some of them managed to squeeze […]
The Kawasaki name has, over the decades, been inextricably linked to a handful of riders. Dave Simmonds, who brought the marque its first world championship title in 1969 on a Kawasaki 125, and its first race win in the 500cc class at Jarama two years later, Mick Grant who brought Kawasaki their only 500cc win […]
