SUPERCHARGED Kawasaki NINJA 250! Here’s picture proof of what we’ve been telling you!

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 a modern H2R.

But this shot of the little 250 has sparked a lot of debate about whether this is a real ‘development’ bike being put through its paces ahead of the official reveal later this year as part of the Kawasaki 2017 line-up.

MoreBikes has already brought you the development stories of the hot 250 class for next year which includes a Ninja 250 (this, probably with supercharger – that’s what the massive, routed air-intake is feeding), a Honda CBR250RR, a Suzuki GSX-R250, a BMW S300RR and a Yamaha R25/R3. All of which are being ramped up to be more sporty than their current models.

The supercharger routing on the Kawasaki is identical to that on the H2R – here’s a naked H2R’s intake:

And it also looks like being in a similar position to the supercharger routing on the concept sketches from Kawasaki over the past few months which included this, the SC02:

MoreBikes has also brought you over the past year the news that Kawasaki has officially announced that it is building bikes of smaller sizes with superchargers in the near future.

Et voila! You like it? We love it! What do you think to this? How much power do you reckon it makes? Look at those weedy-looking forks! Poor little thing!