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I love the tyres,they look like glue.

I wonder, will kawasaki make a 800cc bike for production?
Gotta have one...
Looks fanbloodytastic..

icebreaker wrote:Looks like the '03 ZX9 Green (I think that's the year... could be '02)... I prefer the normal green, but it does look nice.

Nah, dude. The '03 9R green was really pale. In '01 the 9R had a really pronounced pearl, but the green was, again, lighter than that.

The closest production colour to that that I can think of would be the 2000-model ZX12...

awwwesommme

Why can't they just built a production bike LIKE THAT !!

No indicators.

javaman wrote:Why can't they just built a production bike LIKE THAT !!

'cause ya'd fall off it

That covers that one.

The colour is great. Incidentally has anyone seen the silver zx6r - it has red wheels - looks awesome - but is not going to be sold here!!!

As Phil posted a while back, the new Kwakka is easily the best looking bike in the GP paddock next year.

God knows why Kawasaki aren't painting their road bikes in this colour scheme.

Whats with the Ohlins canisters on the bottom of the fork legs? On the right hand side you can see a telemetry rod, could it mean active suspension? Does Motogp allow for active suspension?

I was flicking back through an old Performance Bikes mag the other night, it was from 2001, and there was an article that theorised that between GPS technology and active suspension control it would be one day possible to create settings for your bike so that your suspension would modify itself for each particular road and condition. For instance for the boring freeway bit between home and your favourite twisty road the suspension would soften up but as you arrived at your first corner of your fave road it would set itself up to a firmer and more sporting setting. Of course with computers and black boxes it could take into account acceleration, braking, throttle opening, gear changes, average speed, load etc etc to suit your mood as well in order to change the suspension to suit. Of course it may not be ideal for the general public but for a racetrack if the engineers could program suspension settings for each individual section of the track it would give the rider far more control than having to just set the bike up at an average to cater for the whole circuit.

I wonder if those carbon brakes have a Kawasaki part number.

Interesting to see the bikes the same shade of green as the now defunct Jaguar race team was. Jag did an incredable amount of testing with the colour so it would photograph well, so theoriticaly the Kwaka should look shit hot on the track and great in magazines, I like it, although its a change from tradition but so was the last green, it wasnt as yellow as the original 70's greenmeanie green.

Slow and wobbly wrote:Whats with the Ohlins canisters on the bottom of the fork legs?

Gas reservoir. Those forks work like rear shocks, with membranes and high-pressure nitrogen.

On the right hand side you can see a telemetry rod, could it mean active suspension?

It could, but doesn't. It's just a potentiometer to measure fork movement and aid with setup back in the pits.

Does Motogp allow for active suspension?

It doesn't disallow it...

i wonder if they will start making proddy 800's so theres a bit of a balance, 600, 800, 1000 sporties (and tourers too ) and 1200 bargearses

that does look the ducks.....