Kawasaki Ninja
Encyclopedia
Ninja is the trademarked name of a series of Kawasaki
sport bike
s, that started with the 1984 GPZ900R
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries
is an international corporation based in Japan. It has headquarters in both Chūō-ku, Kobe and Minato, Tokyo.The company is named after its founder Shōzō Kawasaki and has no connection with the city of Kawasaki, Kanagawa....
sport bike
Sport bike
A sport bike, also written as sportbike, is a motorcycle optimized for speed, acceleration, braking, and cornering on paved roads, typically at the expense of comfort and fuel economy in comparison to less specialized motorcycles...
s, that started with the 1984 GPZ900R
Kawasaki GPZ900R
The Kawasaki GPZ900R was a sport bike manufactured from 1984 to 2003. The 1984 GPZ900R was a revolutionary design that became the immediate predecessor of the modern-day sport bike. Developed in secret over six years, it was the world's first 16-valve liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder motorcycle...
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Standard series
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-150RR
- The Japan-only Kawasaki ZXR250 was sometimes rebranded as a Ninja ZX-2R by importers
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-4R
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6RKawasaki Ninja ZX-6RThe Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R is a Kawasaki 600 class sport motorcycle.It was introduced in 1995, and has been constantly updated throughout the years in response to new products from Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha...
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-7RKawasaki Ninja ZX-7RKawasaki's ZX-7R, which replaced the more race-oriented ZXR-750, is the company's most recent 750cc class supersports bike. The ZX-7R was first made available to the public in 1995, and remained largely unchanged through its production, which ended in 2003....
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-8R
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-9RKawasaki Ninja ZX-9RThe Kawasaki ZX-9R was a sport bike manufactured Japanese company Kawasaki from 1994 to 2003. There were five model incarnations across two basic designs.-Introduction:The ZX-9R debuted in 1994...
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RKawasaki Ninja ZX-10RThe Ninja ZX-10R is a Kawasaki sport bike, and the follow-up to the ZX-9R. It was originally released in 2004 with minor revisions in 2005. It combines an ultra-narrow chassis, low weight, and radial brakes...
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11R
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12RKawasaki Ninja ZX-12RThe ZX-12R is a sport bike that was made from 2000 to 2006 by Kawasaki. It was known as a contender to be the fastest production motorcycle, and for its role in bringing to a truce the escalating competition to build a faster motorcycle....
- Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14The ZZR1400 is a motorcycle made by Kawasaki and is currently their most powerful sport bike. It was introduced at the Tokyo 2005 show and released for the 2006 model year as a replacement for the ZX-12R. The ZZR1400 is capable of accelerating from 0–60 mph in 2.5 seconds...
- Kawasaki Ninja 1000Kawasaki Ninja 1000The Kawasaki Ninja 1000 is a sport touring motorcycle introduced in 2011. Other than its name, it is unrelated to the Ninja 1000R produced from 1986–89, or to other Ninja motorcycles....
GP series
- Kawasaki Ninja 250RKawasaki Ninja 250RThe Kawasaki Ninja 250R is a motorcycle originally introduced by Kawasaki in 1983. As the marque's entry-level sport bike,...
- Kawasaki Ninja 400RKawasaki Ninja 400RThe Ninja 400R is a Kawasaki sport bike announced for the 2011 model year, to be sold in Canada,New Zealand and the UK as a smaller cousin to the Ninja 650R, to which it is closely related. However, it can also be seen as a successor to the earlier Kawasaki GPz400S of the 1980s and Kawasaki EX-4 of...
- Kawasaki Ninja 500RKawasaki Ninja 500RThe Kawasaki Ninja 500R is a sport bike with a parallel-twin engine manufactured by Kawasaki from 1987 to 2009, with a partial redesign in 1994...
- Kawasaki Ninja 650RKawasaki Ninja 650RThe faired Kawasaki Ninja 650R, also known as the ER-6f, and its un-faired sister model ER-6n were introduced in 2006 by Kawasaki. They are middleweight, parallel-twin engined motorcycles, designed for normal use on paved roads. They have modern styling and features, with low-seating ergonomics, a...