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im hopeful kawasaki can pull a good motor together that is what made the name just hope its diff to present bike as its ugly lol

BUT ON AN ENGINEERING STANDPOINT ....

Now..... Some might say that the modern superbike was made not by the kwak Z1, but by the Yamaha FZ series, due to their unique angled motors .... there where loads of bikes with "flat motors" in history and in current production ..... the BMW "off-road" series for example.

I'd hate to be an idiot for not knowning what im on about, but arent Kawasaki using technology that went the way of the dinosaur in the early 1900's with the Scott Squirrell series bikes????

Now i could start on the Co-Eff and FMEA and QAS and QFD and whichever design tool that a modern manufactuerer uses to EXCLUDE this technology ... but i feel it will be wasted.

KAWASAKI, MAKE A FUCKING V6 AND BE DONE WITH IT YOU SHITS AND DO SOMETHING YOU AND ONLY YOU CAN DO................... GOD !!!!

PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!

Well, I Was Pretty Wasted .....

Not really a great explanation, i get VERY vocal in critisisms when im drunk BUT....

My all-but brief motorcycling life of just over 2 years has taught me only the fewest of riders are fast on kawasaki's on corners, and a good deal of people just go for the Kawasaki green stereotype "head-banGGGer" look ..... I HAVE met people who can throw a kwak around with the grace and elegence of a ballet artist driving a monster truck.

SOOOOO

My argument (now not AS drunk) remains....

What do the big K hope to do with this engine?.....

NOW the guy from the yamaha M1 project has come up with this idea, and I can only postulate this due to kawsaki get the "2nd option" after Yamaha chose the "long-bang-firing-order" for the M1 in 2003.

Clearly, they dont have the engineering might of Jerry Burgess (who I put as the sole tool that crafted Rossi's world titles ..... Before the JB effect, Rossi could only get 7th on factory aprilia machinery  in 125s after 3 years .....)

This cant be for real, or is it an MCN wind-up???

Oil....

Isnt the pain it used to be. BUT it does mean you have to think VERY hard over how you deliver it.

Most engine cases are now put togteher in "stacks" as opposed to having the central case and bits put on top and around it. having things mounted vertically makes them very easy to be made as pressure-tight as possible. This design goes against that too.

Cant kawasaki just pout their money into a rabid staggered-order V4 or even a V6???? hell, a V3 would be fine.

We are coming to the end of the road for conventional inline-4 cyl bikes, with Suzuki rumored to be developing a "smart-staggered-firing-order-cam", Yamaha with their long-bang engine ... Honda with just a quality engine (which will end up being a V4 in 3 years time) ...... Triumph WILL let out a 1064cc (1075cc restriction) inline-(or V)-3 engine, Aprilia with a V4, Ducati with a big-bore traction controled V-twin, BMW with a traction controlled (eventually) pnuematic inline 4 ..... Just a straight 4 will be their well over-due end.....

Out of the mouths of babes ...

Sometimes you just have to wonder WTF is rattling around in some guy's heads? This instant " expert ", the deeply brain deficient " toe down sv racing " is surely shitting us all or looking for bites here? By his own admission he ( or she ? ) has only been riding two years but this incredible wealth of experience has already delivered wondrous and great truths like - people buy Kwaks because they are green, and - this really impresses me - most of them can't ride around corners or lean their Kwak over enough to wear anything but the centre of their tyres ...well, whoop de do. This 24 month storehouse of motorcyling fact and knowledge would never, ever have heard of riders like Dave Simmonds, Ginger Malloy, Kork Ballington, Greg Hansford, Anton Mang, Wayne Rainey,Eddie Lawson, Mick Grant, John Reynolds, Wayne Gardner, Doug Chandler, Scott Russell, Aaron Slight, Anthony Gobert, Simon Crafar and Akira Yanagawa - all quite handy Kawasaki riders, big brain. A little story for you: rock up to the cafe where we meet B4 going out West into the Ranges & Valleys to frighten old ladies. ZRX 1200 R there with radiator off an M1 tank ( looked like it anyway ), an exhaust system with mysterious Japanese characters never seen in my very long life, braced swing arm and huge non-standard forks, brakes and lines etc. Noticed the Metz racing stickies were truly " burned " right off the edges - front and back. Jeez! Just then a bloke in his mid-40's walks out to the bike. I recognise a World class racer that was right up there in both big production and superbikes and pure GP stuff like RG500's. And his bike was red. My ZX-12R is silver, it was black but I like silver and wanted the later model's radial brakes etc - so it got re-done. When you get to the stage in life you can indulge yourself, you do stuff like that and as they don't make any more - the bikes a keeper. Newbie germs like you, wouldn't see which way this guy went on his red K, and if you tried to keep up you would splatter yourself somewhere, so let's knock-off the bullshit and stupid, ignorant generalisations, OK? Oh, by the way - a tip - save the road heroics and big lean shit for track days. We would like to see you keep coming home after rides out. Hopefully, you'll get old enough to learn something.