Kawasaki Z900 first ride - MOTOR GERR

When you decision a motorcycle Z900, and in therefore doing produce the primary Kawasaki to hold the name since the initial Z1-successor from 1976, it had higher be smart. What you definitely don’t need it to be is confusing. So, let’s get that bit cleared up straight away: the new Z900, removed from some quite retro reincarnation of a ’70s classic, is just meant as an even bigger, higher replacement for its intermediate letter roadster, the Z800.

As a result, a brand new three-strong ‘Zed family’ has evolved out of the recent ER-6n (entry-level twin), Z800 (intermediate four) and Z1000 (range-topper) into, for 2017, the new Z650 (as we tend to tested before Christmas), new Z900 and therefore the continued Z1000, all of that could be a bit neater and cohesive all spherical. Got it? In different words, the Z900 name is a lot of coincidence than reinvention.

The new bike, however, remains massively necessary to Kawasaki. In fact, on the idea of pre-orders, this newcomer is anticipated to be one amongst the firm’s biggest sellers this year. It’s price noting here that this whole intermediate naked category has become one amongst the foremost competitive. Not solely is there the Z900 however there’s additionally Suzuki’s new GSX-S750, Triumph’s close Street Triple 765 and Yamaha’s massively in style MT-09, to not mention niche exotica like MV’s 800 Brutale and Dragster. No pressure then.

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