Four-cylinder Kawasaki ZX-25R unveiled at Tokyo Motor Show
The Tokyo Motor Show has revealed a gem to us in the form of the Kawasaki ZX-25R four-cylinder sportsbike
KAWASAKI continues to wheel out the goods at the Tokyo Moto Show as they have officially pulled the covers off the Kawasaki ZX-25R and it’s screaming four-cylinder 250cc engine.
The idea of Kawasaki reimagining the screaming heyday of the grey import sportsbikes has been mooted for some time now – we even ran some computer-generated images of what the new machine could look like a couple of months ago.
And in truth, the pictures from our friends at Young Machine magazine weren’t very far off the mark. The bike unveiled last night in Tokyo is a 249cc, four-cylinder, liquid-cooled machine. With DOHC and 16-valves and a trellis frame not dissimilar to that seen on the Ninja 650. Front forks are Showa Separate Function Big Piston Forks with a horizontally mounted shock at the rear. The brakes shown are Kawasaki’s in-house calipers, mounted radially on the stanchions.
The new machine also boasts a host of tech that we’d normally only see on larger sports motorcycles from Kawasaki, such as power modes, a quickshifter, and traction control. Sadly, any stats on the engine’s internal specification are as yet unknown.
The video above is listed as part one of a series of video unveilings of the machine, we’ll be keeping a close eye on the Kawasaki Indonesia social media pages for the next installment that will hopefully include some more specs.
The ZX-25R isn’t the only new metal from Kawasaki at the show, they also unveiled the supercharged Z H2, the W800 – if there is more to come from the show, we’ll bring you all the news as we have it.
Pictures from MotoRival
Simon (AKA Toad) has been working within the motorcycle industry for more than twelve years, and a member of the motorcyclist family since birth. Growing up around British-built single and twins, it was inevitable that a life on two wheels was on the cards, from a very early age!
