{"id":22343,"date":"2019-11-19T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/?p=22343"},"modified":"2019-11-23T19:19:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T13:49:19","slug":"was-kawasaki-planning-for-zx-4r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/was-kawasaki-planning-for-zx-4r\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Kawasaki planning for ZX-4R?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The news doesn&#8217;t stop coming from Kawasaki stable and why will it. After all, they had disrupted the motorcycle market.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">First thing was to get a 49.9% share in Bimota leveraging Bimota in many capacities. This is not the first time that Kawasaki and Bimota are working together. This will also change the way we are looking at Neo Cafe Racers.\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Our prediction is after this partnership Neo Cafe Racers will change the way we look and already we see few Italian designers working on them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The second of course is<\/span><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/news-meet-the-kawasaki-z-h2-supercharged\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0bringing in the naked H2<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0that is Z H2 again a Supercharged that will compete with the likes of Ducati Streetfighter V4 and M V Agusta Brutale 1000 Serie Oro.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After the partnership, we saw\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/news-look-on-the-road-its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-tesi-h2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bimota Tesi H2\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0at the recent EICMA and that was a complete surprise. Tesi H2 is operated by a 998cc, supercharged engine that churns 205 hp of power and weighs 238 kgs giving it a good power to weight ratio.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Another marvel that we see is\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/news-kawa-zx-25r-arrives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ZX-25R<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0a compact size innovation capable to produce more than 40 hp with 4 cylinders.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Let us not forget Kawasaki&#8217;s other move towards<\/span><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/more-information-on-kawasakis-electric-bike-like-specs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0electric that they<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0had announced at EICMA. They are working since 2000 on this project and had filed multiple patents on it.\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"_e75a791d-denali-editor-page-rtfLink\" href=\"\/\/www.livingwithgravity.com\/kawasakis-advance-rider-assistance-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The advance rider assistant<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0system is another functionality that we may be able to see sometime shortly from Kawasaki.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, what is most important is we have heard Kawasaki was also trying to bring the ZX-4R and then it was canceled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Well, we feel all the goodies they wanted to stuff in ZX-4R are put in ZX-25R and we could see more powerful ZX-4R.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So the trend that we see in Kawasaki motorcycle in the coming few years will be all the goodies of elder sports bikes like ZX-10 or ZX-10RR will be reflected in younger siblings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news doesn&#8217;t stop coming from Kawasaki stable and why will it. After all, they had disrupted the motorcycle market. First thing was to get a 49.9% share in Bimota leveraging Bimota in many capacities. This is not the first time that Kawasaki and Bimota are working together. This will also change the way we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22555,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions\/22555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingwithgravity.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}