2012 Kawasaki Ninja 650R - Voted: Awesome

[ZRex]

I have to vote Awesome, I love bikes that you can do anything on.

[totalmotorcycle]

Votes are coming in quite strong! Keep up the work; let your fiends know they can vote too.

Mike

[High_Side]

A really nice bike but really Kawasaki needs to get the memo:

Stop writing "Ninja" on every semi-sporting bike that you make with a sticker that looks like it came out of a box of Lucky Charms. It makes a nice bike look cheap, and they really should have left the name in the '80s and just named them as ZX's or ZXR's. This new 650 is a nice looking bike but the first thing to go would be the silly-azzed sticker if it were mine

[madjak30]

The Ninjas aren't ZX bikes anylonger...they are EX bikes, they revived the Ninja name to put some excitement into their more friendly UJM type of bikes...they now have sexier body work, but in essence are still a commuter bike. Their ZX bikes say Ninja nowhere on them.

Same reason Suzuki dropped the Katana name and went with the GSX-F branding...Katana's had a name as mediocre bikes...and in Europe a Katana is a scooter...and it works...people are buying them.

Later.

[totalmotorcycle]

Great news! After a slew of votes, the 2012 Kawasaki Ninja 650R finished as: 55% Awesome; putting it firmly as the top bike of 2012 so far! http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/motorcyclecoolwall.htm New Cool Wall bike now up (every Friday)

Great voting and great discussion!! Let's keep it up for the next bike: 2012 Honda Shadow RS (VT750RS) viewtopic.php?f=61&t=44532

Mike

[High_Side]

The Ninjas aren't ZX bikes anylonger...they are EX bikes, they revived the Ninja name to put some excitement into their more friendly UJM type of bikes...they now have sexier body work, but in essence are still a commuter bike. Their ZX bikes say Ninja nowhere on them.

Same reason Suzuki dropped the Katana name and went with the GSX-F branding...Katana's had a name as mediocre bikes...and in Europe a Katana is a scooter...and it works...people are buying them.

Later.

Way to get in the way of a good rant I have to admit, I had to go look but yes, all of the Supersport bikes still say Ninja on them.... and yes I still think that name should be left to die, and not splashed all over otherwise great looking bikes.

http://www.kawasaki.ca/model-line/1/SUPERSPORT