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2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R Teaser & Concept
Kawasaki has released a glimpse to its all new 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R sport bike with this concept sketch. While it’s hard to say how closely the production bike will be to this still artistic sketch, we...
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2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R Testing with Photos & Video
There’s a lot of pressure on Kawasaki for 2011. Team Green has exited MotoGP, and is completely un-competitive with its ZX-10R in World Superbike and World Superstock 1000. Looking to rectify the...
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Tom Sykes Tests the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R WSBK
Kawasaki is at the track again with its 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R World Superbike platform, and this time at the helm is WSBK rider Tom Sykes. Sykes, who is picking up the slack for his injured teamamte...
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Video: 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R WSBK at Autopolis
After releasing a bevy of photos from its tests of the 2011 WSBK-spec Kawasaki ZX-10R at the Autopolis & Suzuka tracks in Japan, Team Green has put together a video with clips of the bike in both...
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2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R SBK Now in Green
Kawasaki will be officially be “unveiling” its 2011 World Superbike-spec ZX-10R at Nurburgring this weekend, but has released photos of the bike, finally showing the ZX-10R in its green livery. Team...
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LEAKED: 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R Details
Who has two thumbs, $4.99, and no embargo obligations? These guys [holds up thumbs]! Do you want to know every dirty secret about the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R, but don’t want to wait until the big...
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2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R Becomes Officially Official
Finally breaking cover officially, the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R made its official debut at Intermot this week. For 2011, Kawasaki has taken a ground-up approach to building its liter-bike offering, and the...
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Rumor: 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R Getting Horsepower Reduction for the American Market
Immediately after the launch of the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R, which claimed a 207hp figure at the crank with ram-air (197hp sans the air), rumors began to swell that the new ZX-10R’s peak performance...
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Official: 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R Gets 750 RPM Redline Reduction Because of EPA...
We just got off the phone with Kawasaki HQ, and it’s official: the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R will inadvertently get a power decrease when it comes to the United States because of the EPA’s regulation of...
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Kawasaki Fielding Three-Man Team in World Superbike: Lascorz, Sykes, and...
Kawasaki, along with most of the WSBK grid, it at Aragon this week testing for the 2011 World Superbike season. Confirming that they’ll run a three-man team next year, Kawasaki has been testing with...
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Don’t Call It a Recall: 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R Goes on Technical Hold –...
Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. issued a statement this weekend saying that the company was placing a technical hold on all 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R sportbikes because of an undisclosed problem found...
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2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R Tops November Sales in the UK
The British Motorcycle Industry Association is reporting that the 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R was the best selling 651cc-1000cc motorcycle on the island nation for the month of November (with a whopping...
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Kawasaki Releases More Information on the ZX-10R’s Technical Hold – Sales to...
The launch of the 2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R has been a rocky one for Team Green. First there was the new that the ZX-10R’s class leading power figures wouldn’t be making it to the American market, as...
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FTR Entering MotoGP with a Kawasaki ZX-10R Based CRT Machine – Also Helping...
FTR, the Moto2 chassis manufacturer, has released a Q&A with its Moto Director Steve Bones. In the exchange, Bones talks about FTR’s involvement in making a claim-rule team chassis for the Spanish...
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Recall: 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R
Kawasaki is recalling 2,480 units of its 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R motorcycles for a faulty wiring harness. Affecting both the base and ABS versions of the motorcycle, it is possible that the wiring harness...
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Video: 7min 50sec Around The Nürburgring on a Kawasaki
One of the relatively newer trends in automobile promotion is the timed-lap video footage around the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring. With Porsche, Ferrari, Chevrolet, et al battling for four-wheeled...
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The Eleven of 2011 – A Year in Review
Well, 2011 as a year is finally over, and for the motorcycling community it was quite a year. As we begin 2012, we here at Asphalt & Rubber are of course not immune to the desire to summarize and...
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Recall: Kawasaki ZX-6R & ZX-10R
Kawasaki is recalling certain ZX-6R & ZX-10R motorcycles for a regulator/rectifier that may be improperly charging the motorcycle’s battery. Concerning Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R motorcycles from...
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Officially Official: Steve Rapp Will Wild Card on a Kawasaki CRT in MotoGP...
With the news breaking last week that Attack Performance had been given permission to run a wild card entry at both MotoGP in the United States, the American team has confirmed their entry, and that...
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Video: What Does 210 MPH at Monza Look Like?
Hitting over 210 mph down the front straight at Monza, Tom Sykes became the fast two-wheeled man in World Superbike history. Setting the speed on his Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R, Sykes got a bit of help from...
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2010 Kawasaki ZX-10R Gets Aesthetic & Minor Updates – Steals ZX-6R Bodywork
With the assistance of ram-air, the ZX-10R motor produces 200hp peak-horsepower at the crank, making it a popular track weapon and canyon carver. For 2010, Kawasaki (like many of the motorcycle...
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Sykes and Vermeulen Join Kawasaki WSBK for 2010
After much back and forth, Kawasaki has finally announced that Tom Sykes will be joining Christopher Vermeulen on its factory World Superbike team, riding the 2010 Kawasaki ZX-10R. Sykes, who is...
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Asphaltfighters Stormbringer ZX-10R Custom
German tuners Asphaltfighters unveiled their testosterone laden Kawasaki ZX-10R custom, the Stormbringer, at this year’s Essen Motor Show in Germany, which they claim is the fastest streetbike in the...
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2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R Imagined
MotoRevue's Jérôme Vannesson has been at it again with his Photoshop mastery. This time the Frenchman imagines what the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R could look like, and if the real deal is anything close to...
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Vermeulen Missing Valencia – Back at Assen Round
After discovering his knee injury to be more extensive than previously though, Christopher Vermeulen will miss World Superbike’s stop at Valencia this weekend, but is expected to be back on the saddle...
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