Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

Could this be true?

Firstly:
http://www.motosport.ch/artikel_4941.html

Roughly translated from German:
The new Kawasaki ZZR 1400 will officially be 192 HP at 9500rpm according to Kawasaki Switzerland. Torque of 154 Nm (15.7 mkg). Blah blah blah something about the sportstourer being presented to journalists in March. The ZZR 1400 may not be released before April 2006.

Although the figures on the Kawasaki site are slightly different:
http://www.kawasaki.ch/fileadmin/pdf/ZZ-R_1400_D_F.pdf

(I have attached the pdf as a jpg below)

wtf was i thinking, i was thinking "power rangers" instead of "power figures" and thought "dear got, wtf have they done now in the marketing dept?

on this 2 infos :
149nm or 15,7 mkg, it's not the same...
192ps at 10000 or at 9500, it's not the same...

we must wait KAWASAKI FACTORY NUMBERS

fullzx12r wrote:on this 2 infos :
149nm or 15,7 mkg, it's not the same...
192ps at 10000 or at 9500, it's not the same...

we must wait KAWASAKI FACTORY NUMBERS

I reckon we'd be better off awaiting independent dyno figures

It's all pretty academic anyway as I'm sure it will be speed restricted 2 300.

NovaCoder wrote:It's all pretty academic anyway as I'm sure it will be speed restricted 2 300.

Suppose to do 320KPH

fullzx12r wrote:on this 2 infos :
149nm or 15,7 mkg, it's not the same...
192ps at 10000 or at 9500, it's not the same...

we must wait KAWASAKI FACTORY NUMBERS

The pdf is on the Kawasaki-Europe website. How much more factory do you want????

Jase..good post

even has a price too
Swiss francs 20,990 = roughly same price in Oz
although I see their tax is 7.5%, ours is 10%
so bike might be more here in Oz
btw
I notice the weight is given at 217kgs...slightly more than the Australian
brochure

still think it wll be a weapon

oh and
Kwaka Oz site sez...........

Specifications for the 2006 ZX-14 Coming Soon!



cheers

So basically it is going to be ridiculously powerfull.... but we are just waiting to find out how ridiculous...

aardvark wrote:

fullzx12r wrote:on this 2 infos :
149nm or 15,7 mkg, it's not the same...
192ps at 10000 or at 9500, it's not the same...

we must wait KAWASAKI FACTORY NUMBERS

The pdf is on the Kawasaki-Europe website. How much more factory do you want????

Yes, its about as close to factory as you are going to get

Don't hold your breath waiting for these babies to turn up at the local stealers.............middle of the year looks *good*

aardvark wrote:

fullzx12r wrote:on this 2 infos :
149nm or 15,7 mkg, it's not the same...
192ps at 10000 or at 9500, it's not the same...

we must wait KAWASAKI FACTORY NUMBERS

The pdf is on the Kawasaki-Europe website. How much more factory do you want????

kawasaki JAPAN factory numbers

but one question, why kawasaki australy give 210kg for the weight ??? could you please phone to kawa australy to have the real number ?

fullzx12r wrote:.....but one question, why kawasaki australy give 210kg for the weight ??? could you please phone to kawa australy to have the real number ?

they don't know either of them yet.........how long the wait, or how much the weight....

Can anyone here read Japanese???

Hard to know if this is an actual review of the bike or just more "Young Machine" speculation, but it seems they are indicating a quarter mile time of 9.8 seconds )which isn't as quick as I would have expected).

On one page they have 190PS and on the next they have 200PS. Who knows....

There's also some guff about possible future models based on the ZX14.

I have these images a fair bit bigger than they are here for anyone that's interested, or for anyone that can translate.

fuck me! they look like absolute rippers of bikes.... especially the Z1400!!!! i hope they aint just photoshop jobs .... would be great if all 3 of those bikes came out... would be a great way to keep production costs down making them all on the same platform

prefer the idea of 200hp to 190 tho

This photo is taken of the spec board (which was attached to the number plate area of the bike) at the Finland motorcycle show.

There's your 200. 190 sans ram air it looks like.