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Wow! Perhaps this bike will come to India!
The new Ninja engine is radically different from previous Ninjas.





Kawasaki is building the ultimate ZX Ninja engine!!


Kawasaki refines ‘flattened’ engine
By Guy Procter

Kawasaki’s next-generation Ninjas look set to feature this radical new engine design after plans for a ‘flattened’ motor were refined and re-patented for a third time in eighteen months.
The dramatically re-imagined inline four is the work of the man behind the firm’s MotoGP-contending 800cc ZX-RR, Yoshimoto Matsuda, and promises to solve a number of problems at a stroke.
Its stacked gearbox is a Kawasaki first and makes room for a much longer swingarm, a change the wheelie-prone ZX-10R will most benefit from.
Canting the cylinder block forward to an almost horizontal position makes room for a bigger airbox and straighter inlet tract to boost power.
But perhaps most importantly it gives the firm scope to move the motor higher in the frame – raising the bike’s centre of gravity, and bringing the rotating mass of the crank – closer to it.
Those facts should it more flickable and corner-hungry. With the gearbox under the crank the motor still isn’t overly long.
“Kawasaki just need to get the engine into the right place - they've had four stabs so far and got it wrong every time. Maybe this will do it” says MotoGP tech guru Neil Spalding.

Source: MCN

i am very excited about this radical machine !

Some Pics of the Bike from The next MCN edition

Source: MCN

An ultimate ninja!!!!!!!

Guys, they have to do much more than just fitting the gearbox below the crank, and enhancing the wheelbase. They have to get more "controllable power", because it is not about Japanese-4 anymore.

Remember the 5 years+ developed BMW S1000R, with Traction Control, ABS and 193 bhp on rear wheel?? It is anything but slow and it won't let the Japanese win the Superstock title easily...

Kawasaki would be far behind if they don't take proactive measures.

If ZX 10R gets 190 bhp rear wheel, with programmable traction control and ABS, and under 200 kgs of wet weight, then they have a chance to be the undoubted best...

But for CBU import to India though, its good enough like others...

Nice.. good to read.

But alas, a distant dream for someone like me. Ninja 250R is the best that I can practically think of.

Good for the lucky ones who can aspire to get these kind of stuff someday.