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IT’S GREEN… IT’S FAST! KAWASAKI ZX-10RR

REMEMBER WHEN MANUFACTURERS HAD to produce 500 bikes for that model to be raced legally? Super trick bikes would be (sometimes) secretly released onto the ‘market’, when in fact they were already pre-sold to race teams around the world, or to those in the know. Well, it seems the same rule still applies, but you can actually purchase one of these super special models off the showroom floor. Kawasaki released the 500-unit worldwide ZX-10RR last year – basically a ‘production’ race bike. For 2022 the RR is unchanged and after riding it at Sydney Motorsport Park courtesy of the great folk at Sydney Motorsport Park Ride Days, I can tell you that all you really need to do to go racing is chuck some slicks on it, a race fairing and away you go!

From the ‘standard’ ZX-10R to the ZX-10RR the Kawasaki engineers

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