2005 Kawasaki Ninja: My opinion on my 2008 Ninja ZX-10R
05/07/09 (updated 06/22/09)
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Hello.
Glad to see other Team Green members even though my 2008 model year is black.
1st off, I have been riding motorcycles since age 4, I am now age 48 and will never stop riding Sport Bikes.
About my 08 ZX10-R; for the past 15 years I have been riding Japanese Sport Bikes. Prior to Sport bikes I owned six piece of crap, low tech expensive poser bikes-HARLEYS! Even with today's makes and models of HDs they are even more of a poser, wannabee low tech and way over priced vibrator with the "ME" generation "Wild Hogs" typical poser bike. At least when I rode them it was still about the lifestyle, not no more. It was not until a good friend who would not let up about seeing me on a Japanese Sport Bike did my life change forever and for the good.
10 years ago I had a very bad crash at 145mph or around there that has left me disabled, fused lumbar spine in six places and severe daily pain but I refuse, against my MDs advice not to ride, as I said, I will never stop.
Back to my dream bike that I have owned for one year now. I had always been a GSX-R fan and my last was a Suzuki 750 that I pushed to the edge all of the time, but when Kawasaki finally hit it right with the 2008 ZX10-R liter class by finally getting the chassis and the engine to work properly with each other did I make the switch.
Not bragging but having many, many years under my belt when it comes to yes still madman riding and 360 degree safety vision, when I 1st rode my new Team Green, mine is black as was the 1st Ninjas were, I could not believe I was on a liter. This bike dry weighs in around 390 and wet around 435, but I just could not believe I was riding a liter vs a 750. The low range-Brutal and the same for the mid and the high ranges. This is not a Sport Bike for the new rider nor is it meant for stunt riding, it is a full on race bike. I know the Busas' are the monsters but not for the hard core street and track.
When I stop, say for a bottle of water and the amount of people who fall head over heals over my bike and say "I am getting one ASAP" and then I ask how many years they have ridden any street bike and most of the time they have no street time and want to jump onto a beast like mine, I simply tell them to 1st settle down and take a look at a Kawasaki Ninja 250 Ninja as a great starter bike (they are HOT) to 1st learn all of the basics and after a year or so, then consider a 600R of whatever make they choose but I get the same answer every time. "Oh. I can handle a Sport bike like yours" and so on. They can't and will die. Sure it may look cool driving down the road looking cool but errors happen as we all know, in a flash.
Sport Bikes and my Ninja ZX10-R are not built for the novice, you will die. My bike must be driven hard and properly and still with all of my years I am still almost getting killed daily but knowing how, what, when and truly knowing how to see it coming and not freezing up, I am able to handle so far all of the almost death crashes from cars.
I have been hit by 3 cars and crashed four times but was many years ago when I was still green.
I rate the 2008, not the 2009 ZX10-R, a 100% true race bike. I can't even begin where to start but the 09s put on about 20 pounds. If you can still find an 08 grab it as prices are climbing fast.
The 08 Honda CBRRR 1000 can if the rider knows his or her bike, can take the 08 Ninja 1000 in the mid range but that is where it stops.
Be safe and I wrote my review about Sport Bikes, not Harleys? Poser
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