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Corbin Press Release: Corbin introduces a newly designed and engineered seating platform for the new 2013 Kawasaki Ninja 300. Constructed out of Comfort Cell foam for greater comfort and support, Corbin’s front saddle is shaped like your body to create a greater area of body contact and proper weight distribution. The saddle virtually eliminates pressure [...]
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One of the primary appeals of owning a small-displacement motorcycle is the savings such machines typically offer at the gas pump. To determine optimal mpg figures and see how these bikes compare in the real world, we laid out a 60-mile test loop comprised of equal parts freeway, rural and city riding. We weren’t seeking [...]
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A small-arms race! What fun! (Not to be confused with a small arms race; behold the power of the hyphen!) The Kawasaki Ninja 250 had been the best-selling sportbike in the U.S. and pretty much ruled the 250cc sportbike class until the Honda CBR250R got here two seasons ago and dethroned it in a thrilling [...]
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Extravagance has its place…if you’re a one-percenter. But for the rest of the population, $28,000-a-pop Panigale Tricolores, $10,000 European enduros and just-shy-of-$40K factory-custom H-D CVOs just don’t jibe with economic realities. Thankfully, the motorcycle industry has listened. In particular, the Japanese, who have taken quite a beating in the press the past four years for [...]
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My first order of business upon receiving a 2013 Ninja 300 testbike involved rolling the bike onto Cycle World’s Dynojet dynamometer to measure the ponies corralled in Kawasaki’s Shetland-size sportbike. To better show the performance gains of the new liquid-cooled, 296cc parallel-Twin, we’ve laid dyno graphs of a 2011 Kawasaki Ninja 250R and 2011 Honda [...]
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Kawasaki picked a prime location for a revved-up and ready-to-ride motopress to get its first hands-on assessment of the 2013 Ninja 300: Skaggs Springs Road. This flowing ribbon of blacktop flanking Lake Sonoma provides a scenic route through the coastal mountains between U.S. 101 and Pacific Coast Highway north of San Francisco. It’s also quite [...]
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Just in! Read Don Canet’s First Ride report. Well, the gig is finally up: The new 2013 Ninja 300, which debuted in Europe earlier this month, is a confirmed addition to Kawasaki’s stateside model lineup. We will not have to wait long to get our first ride aboard the Ninja 300, as I will be [...]
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