Retro Kawasaki | Back to the future
If you watched WSBK from Argentina at the weekend, you?ll have seen Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes on some fairly retro looking ZX-10RRs. If you didn?t see WSBK at the weekend, you still might have seen pictures of their bikes floating around social media. But it wasn?t just a mindless publicity stunt from the Kawasaki Racing Team. They?d had orders from the top. The retro colour schemes were to celebrate 125 years since the founding of the Kawasaki company, the adoption of a new logo and the creation of a new company within the Kawasaki Heavy Industries Group.
Painting a couple of modern race bikes in 80s and 90s colour schemes is a good way to celebrate anything. Especially if one of them is in the green, blue and white of the ZXR750-H. That was Jonathan?s bike, and he even had the retro leathers to match. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn?t it, so I?ll let you make your own mind up about the GPz900R inspired livery on Alex?s bike; but it?s a no from me.
I?m not entirely sure how Kawasaki convinced all their sponsors that it would be a good idea to remove all their logos from the race bike, but I suppose that?s not my problem, is it"
Deep space
When Sh?z? Kawasaki set up the Kawasaki company in 1878, it was just another shipbuilding company. Eventually though, they expanded into civil engineering, trains, steam engines, and aircraft. Now, as well as bikes and boats, they?re even building stuff to fire into deep space. And because Kawasaki as ...
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