Kawasaki Ninja
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World Supersport 300 championship announced – and it’s not limited to 300cc machines. So that’s clear, then…
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In a bid to attract the lost fans of WSB, organisers of the dwindling championship have announced that a Supersport 300 World Championship is being added to the series for next year. It’s going to be a proddie-based class that will allow riders to compete on Honda CBR500R (so, not a 300), a Kawasaki Ninja…
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2017 Yamaha R15/300: Factory boss confirms new upgraded version of the bike is on the way
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We’ve been telling you about the new, racier version of the Yamaha YZF-R15 for some time bit now, finally, some top boss at Yamaha has confirmed our story. Yamaha Motor research and development Managing Director Yasao Ishihara said: “The R15 will become better in its next iteration, however, no details can be shared as to what…
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Photos: Nitrous-powered custom Kawasaki Vulcan S ‘The Underdog’
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We have seen Kawasaki Vulcan S inspired custom bikes before, but this one is definitely one of the coolest so far: meet The Underdog, a nitrous oxide guzzling sprint racer. The bike was created for the Essenza Sprint Challenge at the Glemseck 101 festival in Germany. A race, which was won by one Carl Fogarty…
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2017 Ninja 250 to make 38bhp, 300cc version to make 43bhp – rumour
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2017 Ninja 250 to make 38bhp, 300cc version to make 43bhp – rumour. There’s lots of hubbub in India today about the upcoming Kawasaki Ninja, the new, sportier small-capacity version of the roadster that’s going to be part of the 2017 line-up. We’ve told you before about the bike appearing as a direct competitor to…
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Video: Holy MOLY! Kenan Sofuoglu hits 400KMH (248.548mph) over a bridge on a H2R!
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Video: Holy MOLY! Kenan Sofuoglu hits 400KMH (248.548mph) over a bridge on a H2R! https://youtu.be/1RPl2rkKZ7Q Check out this brilliant bit of video – showing the most successful World Supersport rider of all time, Kenan Sofuoglu, hitting 400kmh on a H2R across a bridge. The Turkish rider had been expecting to go for the record…
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SUPERCHARGED Kawasaki NINJA 250! Here’s picture proof of what we’ve been telling you!
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Here’s a picture that’d get a lot of people hoping… this is a Kawasaki Ninja 250R with a supercharger. And it’s being developed in plain sight in a Japanese championship by the Trick Star Racing outfit. Trick Star Racing has made a name for itself developing race parts for various Kawasaki’s including a retro-GPz900 and…
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School of speed: California Superbike School, Level 1
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The California Superbike School runs rider training in all corners of the world, but in the UK, they use iconic circuits such as Silverstone, Cadwell Park and Brands Hatch. I had booked myself on a course at the Silverstone Stowe circuit. It’s a perfect environment for rider training, offering a selection of different bends and…
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SCOOP: Kawasaki’s Ninja R2 SECRET patent drawings for supercharger with extra fuel injector built in
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We’ve already told you several times about the Kawasaki Ninja R2 – the next supercharged motorcycle set to come from the Japanese factory, and now we’ve been sent these exclusive patent drawings of a (kind of) multi-point fuel injection system for the new bike. Last week we revealed how the Japanese journalists hot on the…
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VIDEO: Kawasaki H2 caning it around the Nurburgring
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VIDEO: Kawasaki H2 caning it around the Nurburgring. Check out this pretty cool video of a Kawasaki H2 being put around the Nurburgring. It’s not a new video, it was made last October, but on a grizzly and grimy morning like we’ve got in the UK it’s a cracking bit of big bike fun to…
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Japanese journos print Kawasaki Ninja R2 image – claim it’s going to be a 600
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Japanese journos print Kawasaki Ninja R2 image – claim it’s going to be a 600. We’ve been telling you about the second generation of supercharged Kawasakis for over a year now, the plans for more supercharging units have been patented and shown on MoreBikes for the past ten months or so. Just past midnight…
