Kawasaki unveils new paint for 2023 ZX-10R sports bike

We have our first look at the 2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R, and it is pretty much the same as before, but with a touch more green in the paint job.

2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R
2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R

Kawasaki Indonesia has unveiled the 2023 ZX-10R, with no technical changes but some small visual updates.

Recently, Kawasaki has been putting things in place for 2023, by re-signing Jonathan Rea for its factory World Superbike team, and introducing new colours for a number of its road models.

2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R
2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R

This year in WorldSBK - and arguably last year, too - the current generation 2021 ZX-10R has begun to show its age. To the extent, in fact, that there has been some discussion over whether the Akashi factory should introduce a new homologation model. 

That does not seem as though it will be the case, though, to what is presumably the disappointment of those working inside the Provec-run Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK (KRT). 

2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R
2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R

Instead, the 2023 ZX-10R will be a continuation of the current generation, with just a small graphical tweak to the KRT-inspired livery on the production model. 

This comes from Kawasaki Indonesia, which has now listed Kawasaki’s 2023 flagship sports bike on its website.

2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R
2023 Kawasaki ZX-10R

For 2023, there will be more green on the ZX-10R, which should be of some pleasure to Kawasaki fans. It had seemed for a while that Kawasaki’s colour was becoming black more than green, but in recent years - at least with the sports bike - the green has come back to greater prominence.

Although it is currently available only in Indonesia, we can expect this 2023 ZX-10R to be listed throughout Kawasaki’s global network in the coming weeks. For example, the recently announced 2023 colours for the Z900RS were revealed in the US a few days before they were globalised.

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