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Kawasaki Ninja zx6r this is india's first taste of a legal Japanese 600 cc
Super Sport and now most of us have grown up reading tales of these iconic
motorcycles and to see one of them in the flesh is like meeting one of your
heroes well the Kawasaki is only one of the two
Japanese bike makers were still making 600 cc super sports the second one being
Yamaha Honda and Suzuki bowed out of the game long back but before I get stuck up
on history let me get to the bike itself as you can see here this looks identical
to the Ninja 400 these winglets around the headlights
look very much like the Ninja 400 and the overall friend is an including this
green KRK color scheme is fairly similar to the ninja 400 but what you get
here is this the ram air intake scoop which not only adds to the aesthetic
value but also gives you more power but more on that later on the zx6r in India
comes as a writer only bike as you can see that there are no foot pegs for the
pillion as well as no seat you get a cowl here so if so it is meant to be a proper
proper riders only bike the overall parts and fit and finish quality levels
here are top-notch as you can expect from Kawasati
in fact the instrument cluster here looks very similar to the Ninja 400 the layout
here is fairly similar as you can see apart from these feel
small details here for the power for the traction control for the quick shifter
and everything not the overall design remains same but the layout is likely
different now the ergonomics of the bike a typical super Sportage so once you get
on the saddle yeah this is slightly high as you can see I am a bit tiptoeing over
the balls of my feet of flat over the seat height is 830 mm but you are
leaning forward and get under the clip-ons
which are fairly in those thumb but this is a Super Sport stance in case you want
to crowd start yeah there's plenty of room to move behind there's plenty of
room here and even for somebody who is huge like me there is lot of room to
move around in the saddle coming to the foundations the zx6r has got a pressed
aluminium twin power frame which has been put through
spaces in the world Super Sport championship Kawasaki has been one of
the dominant forces in the series and this chassis has been developed and put
through its paces in the racing championship and the house unplayed is
this 636 CC inline-four motor which makes 130 PS at a whopping 13 and half
thousand rpm the remember the ram air effect I told you about
well that increases six PS more from this scoop that is saw earlier
now Kawasaki and made sure to tweak the speed gearbox as well as the final drive
ratios for better low-end torque even though it makes a peak torque of 70.8
Newton meters at a sky-high 11000 rpm kawasaki in show that the zx6r will be
able to handle daily duties as well but don't but you don't buy this bike for
daily duties you buy this bike for hitting the MX's and that's what you get
you get great components for that starting off with this the Kawasaki
quick shifter only up shifts don't know autoplay player so you so it doesn't
help you put on the gears without using the clutch but it helps you to get up
through the gears quickly then getting back here you see the KTRC that's the
traction control you get three levels of traction control and you can shut off
traction control altogether then you got these two power modes F and L and then
you can scroll through this traction control and completely off or the
suspension front you get show us 41 mm USDS these are the separate function
folks of the big piston variety these have fully adjust-ability that means you
can set them for rebound the compression as well as reload and at the front you
also get this he is missing mono blocks calipers for piston mono blocks acting on
to 310 mm rotors and they're moving to the back you get this lovely swing um
this bit the kawasaki trademark a unit rack Mono shock that the piggyback
recovered even this unit is fully adjustable on the rear the brakes is
sadly just a single piston one just a single piston caliper acting on a 220
mm disc these 17-inch rims here as you can see comes short with Bridges tone
battlax Hypersport s22 rubber they just said to offer great grip in both a
dry as well as wet conditions we shall put the claim to test soon this
motorcycle comes to India where the CKD route Kawasaki has managed surprised
ZX6R at Rs 10.49 like ex-showroom india but this is an
introductory price so expect the pricing to grow higher soon enough what are its
competitors perhaps the Ducati Panigale 959 which cost nearly 7 lakh more one
could also make the case for the Triumph Street Triple RS here which which of a
similar performance but the naked costs rupees 11.13 lakhs we should get
a spin on this bike soon enough but until then here's a little taste of what
you can expect