Bike Meowing

[avgas]

hah, i've always wondered what that was. The Street Triple does it too... actually all the new Triumphs I think.

Big Brother is watching!

And they changed the whole engine so at idle it sounds like an industrial conveyor line rather than the nice burble the old 98 model had.
Is it still a Sagem engine management system in the new ones? Sagem also make good phones

[Roki_nz]

Possibly its the tank venting ( as mentioned before by my learned companion ) and even moving the bike around will slop the liquid gold , known as petrol, around again causing venting, but really I wouldn't have a clue but they all do it ( Normally can't hear it once it is going over the fairing rattling - another known issue )

So its normal to hear this even as i am riding at 50km

[James Deuce]

I would guess not. I'm wondering what the cat stuck in your airbox is living on.

[zeocen]

Hmm, James Deuce, when I had an 04 Z750 as a loan bike for about 4 days I really did notice a high pitched whine while riding, then when I got my bike back from it's 1k service (ER6F) I noticed that it also had the same wine, just ever so slightly quieter. The Z750 was very noticeable though, it was like a jet whirl constantly in the background, kinda cool! :P

Maybe your sport tour version has relieved you of sounding like a mini jet!

I just put the whine down to the usual Kawasaki knick-knacks, the reason most of us love them!