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2009 Kawasaki KLX250SF
More supermoto style for the quarter-liter set. more
2009 Kawasaki KX450F - Meaner And Greener
Leaner, greener and a bit meaner, but can it beat the Honda? more
Short Shift: Kawasaki Vulcan 2000 Classic
Big Mike Seate trolls the Florida Keys on the only cruiser that's bigger than he is. more
2009 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R - The Ninja's New Moves
A little leaner and a lot meaner, the all-new Ninja 600 eats Autopolis with a big Piston Fork. more
2009 Kawasaki KLX250S
Getting Dirty Without Going Broke more
First Ride: 2008 Kawasaki Ninja 250R - A First Ride To Remember
Ninja 250R receives a massive '08 makeover. more
2008 Kawasaki ZX-10R - First Ride - Enter The Warrior
Packing Almost 180 Horsepower, This Is The Fiercest Ninja Yet. more
2008 Kawasaki ZX-10R - Up To Speed
After blowing a crater in its 2008 R&D budget with the Concours 14, Kawasaki had enough left to reinvent the ZX-10R. There's also a revamped ZX-14 to battle Suzuki's new 'Busa. At the other end of the food chain, the 250 Ninja gets its first real redo in decades. And the early-release '09 KLX250S wi more
2008 Kawasaki Concours 14 - First Ride
This Is Why It's Called Sport-Touring. more
Kawasaki Z1000 - Naked Performance - First Ride
As niche markets go, the "performance naked class" as Kawasaki calls it (and claims to have started back in 2003 with the original Z1000, which other manufacturers would surely dispute) is booming. In Europe, at least: Here in the States most riders still prefer their full-faired, full-caff sportbik more
2007 Kawasaki ZX-6R - First Ride
Read about our first ride on the 2007 Kawasaki ZX-6R. more
First Ride: 2006 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Classic
V-twin value, refined and redefined more
'04 Kawasaki ZX-12 Break-In Process - Answers - MC Garage
Running On About Running InI bought an '04 Kawasaki ZX-12, and it came with a sticker on the tachometer telling me to not exceed 4000 rpm for the first 500 miles. What do you think about this? I've been a good boy for 150 miles, and I want to let 'er rip. Is there something different about this engi more
2006 Kawasaki ZX-14
The nine-second Gentleman's Express more
2005 Kawasaki Vulcan 1600 Nomad
At first glance it looks like Kawasaki's familiar 1500 Nomad--but look again. Most pieces of Kawasaki's 2005-spec Nomad turn out to be new, including the engine, which now displaces 1552cc instead of the old Nomad's 1470cc, the extra cubes arriving via a 5mm-l more
First Ride: 2005 Kawasai Z750S
Rational motorcycles--bikes with livable ergos, street-sensible power, non-intimidating styling, flexible manners, prices that don't involve a second mortgage and insurance rates that don't require a third--can be hard to come by. Here in the States there hasn more
2005 Kawasaki ZX-6R
Read the 2005 Kawasaki ZX-6R Streetbike road test and review by the motorcycle experts at Motorcyclist Online. more
2004 Kawasaki ZX-10R Road Test
You expect certain things from the Ninja. Power. Quickness. Agility. Focus. Bravado. Attitude. Heavy on the attitude. Still, unless you catapult-launch F-18 Hornets or 6500-horsepower Top Fuel dragsters for a living, this Ninja is a revelation. Prepare yoursel more
First Ride: Kawasaki ZX-10R
Midway through my first "Meanie Greenie Ninjatini," I noticed there was no motorcycle in the fifth-floor reception suite of Miami's posh Mandarin Oriental hotel. How odd. The entire North American motopress was gathered here to mark the release of the new-from more
Kawasaki Vulcan 2000
In the never-ending race to build the biggest V-twin, Kawasaki has just fired a big-inch salvo across the bows of the worthy oppositions' front-line cruisers. Imaginatively dubbed the Vulcan 2000, this two-barreled behemoth displaces a full 2053cc of enhanced more
Road Test: Kawasaki Z1000
Has it really been 30 years since Kawasaki levered the motorcycling world off its axis with the Z-1? Indeed. Those old enough to have some early 1970s motoawareness know that Team Green's 903cc open-classer not only proved to be the fastest, quickest and just- more
First Ride: Go Naked, Go Fast: Kawasaki Z1000 First Ride
Editor's Note: We took delivery of a Z1000 testbike just the other day, and have already begun the thrashing. But in the space between delivery and our road test or comparo, please enjoy Roland Brown's latest report from the bike's world launch in Sorrento, in more