On monday took the brother in laws zx10r for a little blast only did maybe 60kms on it, around the roads coming back from rotovegas, was an alright bike, seamed harder on the wrists then the sixxer, but got use to it. The ram air roar was good, but kawasakis have always had the best ram air sound.
The front radial mounted brakes with wavy discs, didn't have the same initial bite as the sixxers radical mounted ones. Felt same once had a good handful, but initinal bite i think is a little laking, in a bike with this sorta power.
And the power, i mean awsome, it just pulls even from as low as 4000rpm it just pulled, you could feel if you rev it the sort power it would put out, did a couple of quick starts off the line, it was easyer to get fast of the line the gixxer, on the open road you could really sit in 2-3 i was using 3-4 most of time, didn't really get much of chance to really rev it, but felt great, only thing i miss going back down to the sixxer, the punch coming out corners, you get with a bigger bike. Handling was great, this bike was setup a little hard for me(brother in law is a good 20kgs on me, so reason why) it held lines well, even when hitting bumps mid corner.
All in all a great handling/power bike, one downside the styling but each to the own.
It would be a find bike to ride every once and a while for a bit of difference, but i much pefered the bike i currently have.
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