Kawasaki Ninja

Aided by titanium shoes and a slightly modified Kawasaki Ninja H2 SX, motorcycle stunt rider Jonny Davies has added another Guinness World Record to his accomplishments for what's got to be one of the more thrilling events included in the compendium.

As we move to a zero-carbon transport future, Kawasaki is testing the waters of greener and cleaner motorcycle technologies. Following the reveal of a hydrogen-powered Ninja H2 SX last year, the prototype has made its first public appearance in Japan.

Armed with a 300-horsepower, supercharged engine from Kawasaki's fearsome H2R hyperbike, the K-Racer X1 unmanned helicopter is an absolute beast of a cargo drone, the size of a small car. Watch it lifting a national-record weight in this new video.

Kawasaki is doing some fascinating work toward decarbonizing motorcycles. After launching the world's first hybrid streetbike in the Ninja 7 Hybrid, it's now built a supercharged, zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered Ninja H2 SX. An H2 H2, if you will.

Kawasaki has managed to squeeze both a combustion engine and a full electric powertrain into its new Ninja 7 Hybrid streetbike – and it doesn't look as ungainly as you'd think. The benefits? Fuel economy, electric boost, and some other neat tricks.

Back at the EICMA 2022 trade show in Milan, Kawasaki unveiled a dual-battery Ninja-style electric motorcycle designed for A1 license riders in the EU. Now the company has announced that two Ninja electrics will go on sale in the UK next month.

The only brand new models that Kawasaki introduced at the Intermot show were a couple of 125s, a Ninja and a Z, yet people will probably be talking more about the power boost of the supercharged H2. If that was not enough, Kawasaki also updated the ZX-10R family by upgrading all of its versions.

Yesterday, 21-year-old Ana Carrasco became the first female motorcycle world champion, surviving the final round of the 2018 World 300 Supersport Championship at Magny Cours in France with just three points from her 13th place, but enough to give her the title by a one-point margin.

If you thought that the supercharged H2 and H2R duo might be a bit too much, at least these were sportbikes. How about a sport tourer version of the H2, complete with the supercharger and a stampede of 210 horses going two-up touring? Well, that’s exactly what Kawasaki has unveiled at EICMA 2017.

The smallest member of the Ninja sportbike family started life as a 250, grew to 300 cc and now Kawasaki upgrades it once again. Inspired by the championship-winning ZX-10R and styled accordingly, the new Ninja 400 sports a new engine housed in a brand new frame and sets a new example in its class.

Kawasaki's performance in World Superbike Racing has been so good of recent times that it's embarrassing. So what do you change when your bike has just won three straight championships, with more fastest laps and pole positions than any other marque? ​The answer is, not much.

Looking back over the year, 2016 seen a whole lot of weird and wonderful developments in the motorcycle world. Well, some of them just weird. Here are our favorite bikes from around the world that pushed the envelope in 2016.