Kawasaki Ninja

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.

In the latest of our video road tests, Kawasaki USA turns Loz loose on the extraordinary Ninja H2. It's the only current mass-market production motorcycle with forced induction, thanks to its custom designed supercharger, and it's as insane as you'd expect!

From its signature mirror paint job and sci-fi looks, to its electric green trellis frame and Ninja star wheels, Kawasaki's H2 is all about shock and awe. And none of it shocks more than when you open the throttle and access the roaring excess of a 200-plus horsepower, supercharged, 1000cc engine.

Kawasaki has unveiled its new liter superbike. The 2016 ZX-10R may look almost identical to its predecessor, but under those familiar fairings lies a brand new motorcycle packed with an impressive arsenal of race-derived equipment.

Kawasaki has teased its 2016 Ninja ZX-10R with a partial image and some rudimentary info. Scheduled for presentation in October, the new superbike will be a race biased evolution of the current model in an effort to further cement its dominance in the World Superbike Championship.

Expectations were sky-high for the supercharged Kawasaki Ninja H2, and yet Team green still managed to blow our minds when it unveiled its 300-horsepower Ninja H2R at Intermot Cologne today, restoring Kawasaki's reputation as the brand of choice for slavering lunatics.

KTM's 1290 Superduke R prototype combines a lightweight, trellis-frame with a 1290cc V-twin, drive-by-wire, lots of (disengageable) electronic rider assistance, prototype WP suspension at both ends and maybe the best power-to-weight ratio ever!