Rumours, hearsay, skinner – call them what you will, but you can’t ignore them. Kawasaki Heavy Industries is keeping mum about any future supercharged two-wheeled offerings they may have in the pipeline, but you can’t shut the media up, and word is spreading that there will be more tasty greens with plenty of beefsteak coming […]
Jonathan Rea (KRT) ended his championship winning WorldSBK campaign with a second place and then his first DNF of an almost perfect season, finishing up with a final championship winning advantage of 132 points. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) scored two third places today to end his season in overall third place. Under floodlights at […]
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 […]
