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  • Upgrade your Kawasaki Z1000SX and get a FREE TomTom Rider sat nav

    Upgrade your Kawasaki Z1000SX and get a FREE TomTom Rider sat nav

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    Upgrade your Kawasaki Z1000SX and get a FREE TomTom Rider sat nav. Following the launch of the new Z1000SX for 2017, owners of the popular sport tourer who upgrade their current Z1000SX to the latest model will receive a free TomTom Rider 400 Kawasaki Edition package – worth over £350. Those wanting to take advantage of the…

  • Meet The Dagger – a 3D-printed frame and chassis wrapped around a 300bhp Kawasaki H2R supercharged motor

    Meet The Dagger – a 3D-printed frame and chassis wrapped around a 300bhp Kawasaki H2R supercharged motor

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    Meet The Dagger – a 3D-printed frame and chassis wrapped around a 300bhp Kawasaki H2R supercharged motor. Check this out – a full-on naked hyperbike that’s been created with a 3d-printed chassis. Called The Dagger the bike looks awesome and as the main bits are wrapped around a supercharged Kawasaki H2R motor (yep) it’s going…

  • Motorcycle Live! WSB World Champ Jonathan Rea confirmed to be at the show on opening day

    Motorcycle Live! WSB World Champ Jonathan Rea confirmed to be at the show on opening day

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    Motorcycle Live! WSB World Champ Jonathan Rea confirmed to be at the show on opening day. Recently-crowned double World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea (above, the bigger fella in the picture) will be one of many racing stars to appear at the UK’s biggest bike show, Motorcycle Live, which opens at The NEC, Birmingham on 19…

  • Video: The moment a biker chooses launching off a 40ft drop instead of a head-on with a car… onboard footage (he’s OK)

    Video: The moment a biker chooses launching off a 40ft drop instead of a head-on with a car… onboard footage (he’s OK)

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    https://youtu.be/NYkuYg5qvPI Holy moly! Check out this video as a timely reminder to go for the corner if you commit to it (or, slow down a bit if you haven’t got the skills). Either way, every time we see this footage it makes us go a bit sicky inside. The video isn’t new but it’s still…

  • Kawasaki’s insider plans for a self-adjusting seat registered for the next wave of fast bikes

    Kawasaki’s insider plans for a self-adjusting seat registered for the next wave of fast bikes

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    Kawasaki’s insider plans for a self-adjusting seat registered for the next wave of fast bikes. These designs from inside Kawasaki’s offices shows the tech fitted to an H2 hyperbike but the description of the idea that accompanies the drawings says that this idea can easily be applied to more motorcycles in the range. In short,…

  • Launch ride: Kawasaki Z1000SX

    Launch ride: Kawasaki Z1000SX

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    The same, but different Looks familiar? It should do. This 2017 version of Kawasaki’s hugely successful Z1000SX mirrors its predecessor in more ways than there’s space to write about, with key crossovers including the last model’s frame, engine, wheels and much more. So what’s new? Well, quite a bit was the message during the model’s…

  • New Kawasaki Z1000 R Edition for 2017

    New Kawasaki Z1000 R Edition for 2017

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    Kawasaki has just confirmed that in addition to the standard Z1000, there will be an ‘R’ edition in the line up too. The ‘R’ gets high-spec Brembo brakes, Öhlins suspension and revised ECU settings. Pricing details are being held until Motorcycle Live, and the first bikes could be with customers as early as January 2017.…

  • Video: Kawasaki Spain goes ‘full monty’ for road safety

    Video: Kawasaki Spain goes ‘full monty’ for road safety

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    We’ve seen various road safety campaigns in the past that try and make car drivers notice motorcyclists around them. Most of them fail to grab your attention. Others are a bit dull. And then there are some that are just plain bonkers, like this one that Kawasaki Spain has just released. The idea behind the video is…

  • Impressive Honda CBR250RR power figures confirmed

    Impressive Honda CBR250RR power figures confirmed

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    Our friends in Indonesia have the official details from Honda that confirm the power, weight and other details of the new Honda CBR250RR. According to the documents, the maximum power output from the parallel twin is 36bhp at 12,500rpm, which is pretty impressive considering that the 125cc version only manages 13bhp. It’s also well ahead…

  • Kawasaki giving the H2R bigger wings. Design drawings point the way to proper downforce increase

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    These drawings from inside Kawasaki show how the factory is having to up the amount of downforce on its next-generation of the brutal H2R to MotoGP levels, just to keep the front wheel of the coming-version of the bike on the floor during top-end acceleration. There’s no details about an increase in the bike’s power…

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