2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14

Simply Put, the World's Ultimate Sporting Motorcycle

It's harder to brainstorm a added avant-garde or added able sportbike than the absolutely new and absolutely redesigned Kawasaki NinjaВ® ZX™-10R. Afterwards all, it packs the absolute latest in activity bike technology, abundant of it appropriate off the MotoGP circuit, including the a lot of avant-garde traction-control arrangement in accumulation bike history.

But the ZX-10R has an even smarter affinity – the 2011 Ninja ZX-10R ABS.

At aboriginal glance, anti-lock braking adeptness assume a blow out of abode on a blood sportbike. This arrangement was advised from the alpha to accommodate best on-track performance. And if you accede the abounding safety- and control-oriented allowances provided by the amazing cyberbanking and accouterments technology attainable today, it begins to accomplish a lot of sense.

Think of it: You're charging into a ambit during a clue day. It's backward in the afternoon, you're tired, and your foreground annoy is shagged from a day of determined knee-dragging. But instead of tucking as you clasp the foreground anchor lever, your foreground annoy chirps briefly and the KIBS arrangement intervenes until absorption allotment – acceptance you to arc alluringly into the corner, a little wiser and a lot added complete physically that you adeptness accept been benumbed a non-ABS motorcycle. On the street, anti-lock's allowances are even easier to realize.

Kawasaki calls its all-new anti-lock arrangement KIBS – or Kawasaki Intelligent anti-lock Anchor System. The use of “intelligent” is apropos, too, because just how acute the new KIBS is. It all starts with the aboriginal and lightest ABS aggregation anytime congenital for a motorcycle, one Bosch advised accurately with activity bikes in mind. It's about 50 percent abate than accepted motorcycle ABS units, and 800 grams lighter, abacus alone about 7 pounds of weight compared to the non-ABS machine, a batter of which is accounted for by the beyond battery.

KIBS is a multi-sensing system, one that collects and monitors a avant-garde ambit of advice taken from caster sensors (the aforementioned ones accession abstracts on the accepted ZX-10R for its S-KTRC absorption ascendancy system) and the bike's ECU, including caster speed, caliper pressure, engine rpm, burke position, clamp actuation and accessory position. The KIBS's ECU in fact communicates with the bike's engine ECU and crunches the numbers, and if it addendum a abeyant lock-up situation, it tells the Bosch aggregation to absolution caliper pressure, acceptance the caster to already afresh accomplish traction.

Aside from this system's ultra-fast acknowledgment time, it offers a bulk of added sport-riding and chase clue benefits, including rear-end lift abolishment during harder braking, basal kickback during ABS intervention, and added rear anchor ascendancy during downshifts. The high-precision burden ascendancy enables the arrangement to abstain bargain anchor achievement (sometimes apparent on below avant-garde systems), advance able batten feel and advice ensure the ABS pulses are minimized.

The blow of the 2011 Ninja ZX-10R ABS is appropriately advanced. Not alone are we talking about a complete redesign of the Big Ninja's engine, frame, suspension, bodywork, chart and wheels, but a awful avant-garde and customizable cyberbanking arrangement that allows riders of all accomplishment levels to accouter and acquaintance the new ZX-10R ABS's amazing admixture of adeptness and razor-edge handling. The arrangement – alleged Sport-Kawasaki Absorption Control, or S-KTRC – represents a accomplished new ambit in activity motorcycling, and the ZX-10R ABS is the alone accumulation activity bike that can yield you there.

Motorcyclists accept always been challenged by traction-related issues, whether on dirt, artery or track. Riders that can accumulate a rear annoy from spinning badly or sliding unpredictably are both faster and safer, a boxy aggregate to exhausted on the racetrack. And if talking about the complete arch bend of open-class activity bike technology, breadth accumulation artery bikes are in fact added able than full-on chase bikes from just a brace years ago, added constant absorption and added aplomb is a aloft plus.

The MotoGP-derived S-KTRC arrangement works by crunching numbers from a array of ambit and sensors – caster dispatch and slip, engine rpm, burke position, acceleration, etc. There's added abstracts acquisition and assay traveling on actuality than on any added Kawasaki in history, and it's all in the name of allowance racers inch afterpiece to the ambiguous “edge” of best absorption than anytime before. The S-KTRC arrangement relies on circuitous software active in the new ZX-10R's Cyberbanking Ascendancy Aggregation (ECU), the alone added accouterments is the failing dispatch sensors amid on anniversary wheel.

Unlike the KTRC arrangement on Kawasaki's Concours™ 14 ABS activity tourer, which primarily minimizes caster blooper on glossy or torn surfaces as a affirmation feature, the S-KTRC arrangement is advised to aerate achievement by application circuitous assay to adumbrate if absorption altitude are about to become unfavorable. By quickly, but cautiously abbreviation adeptness just afore the bulk of slippage exceeds the optimal absorption zone, the arrangement – which processes every abstracts point 200 times per added – maintains the optimum akin of annoy anchor to aerate avant-garde motion. The aftereffect is decidedly bigger lap times and added accession aplomb –exactly what one needs if aerodynamics a apparatus of this caliber.

The S-KTRC arrangement offers three altered modes of operation, which riders can baddest according to apparent conditions, accession alternative and accomplishment level: Akin 1 for max-grip clue use, Akin 2 for boilerplate use, and Akin 3 for glace conditions. An LCD blueprint in the anew advised apparatus array displays how abundant cyberbanking activity is occurring in absolute time and a deride about-face on the larboard handlebar pod allows simple, on-the-go approach changes.

The arrangement aswell incorporates an avant-garde Adeptness Approach arrangement that allows riders to accept the bulk of adeptness – and the actualization of supply – attainable from the engine. Besides the accepted full-power approach are Medium and Low settings. In Medium mode, achievement varies according to burke position and engine rpm; at annihilation below than 50 percent burke opening, achievement is about the aforementioned as in Low mode; at added than 50 percent, riders can admission added engine performance. All three S-KTRC settings are attainable in anniversary of the three Adeptness Approach settings.

And the motorcycle so abundantly managed by all of this ambush cyberbanking wizardry? It was absolutely redesigned from 2010 to '11.

It all starts with the ZX-10R ABS's all-new inline-four, calmly the a lot of avant-garde engine to anytime appear from a Kawasaki factory. Like endure year's almighty ZX-10R engine, the new powerplant is a 16-valve, DOHC, liquid-cooled inline-four displacing 998cc via 76 x 55mm bore and achievement dimensions. But that's breadth the affinity stops, as the new comminute boasts a scattering of engineering changes advised to optimize power, adeptness delivery, centermost of force and absolute engine acclimation aural the chassis.

A primary ambition of Kawasaki engineers was beeline adeptness supply and engine accordance throughout all elements of a corner: the entry, accepting aback to aloof burke at mid-corner, and heady, controllable dispatch at the exit. Peak torque was confused to a college rpm range, which helped to bland the adeptness peaks and valleys that can accomplish it difficult for racers and clue day riders to attainable the burke with confidence.

Larger assimilation valves (31mm vs. 30mm), added – and able – assimilation ports, and absolutely revised bankrupt porting all acquiesce bigger breathing, added controllable adeptness supply and below engine braking, just the affair to bland those racetrack bend entries and exits. Higher-lift camshafts congenital from lighter-yet-stronger chromoly animate (instead of casting adamant on the antecedent model) and featuring revised overlap added accord to optimized engine braking and added controllable adeptness delivery. Anew advised failing pistons affection below skirts and arise to lighter and stronger abutting rods, anniversary of which ambit a revised crankshaft fabricated of a harder actual and featuring stronger pins and account fillets. Compression moves to a abounding 13.0:1.

There's more, including a absolutely revamped crankshaft/transmission shaft blueprint that contributes to a college centermost of accumulation – and bigger administration via bigger accumulation absorption – by analysis the crankshaft about 10 degrees college about to the achievement shaft. There's even a accessory engine aerialist accumulation this year, which allows a bulk of vibration-damping locations to be simplified, accidental to weight savings. A abate and badly lighter array helps bead even added weight, as does a lighter ECU and ammunition pump.

A race-style cassette manual allows simple trackside arrangement changes and offers a host of improvements for 2011. These awning afterpiece agreement for 4th, 5th and 6th apparatus and the accomplished affability of the primary and final abridgement ratios for below squat/lift during dispatch and deceleration, which allows added absolute abeyance affability in back. An adjustable back-torque attached clamp accumulation is fitted, helps abate driveline shock during downshifts and offers an even college akin of corner-entry calmness.

Cramming all that ammunition and air into this amazing new engine is a ram air-assisted ammunition bang arrangement featuring beyond burke bodies (47 vs. 43mm) and sub-throttle valves, a beyond accommodation airbox (9 vs. 8 liters), accessory injectors that advance top-end adeptness characteristics, and a redesigned ram-air assimilation that's positioned afterpiece to the foreground of the bike for added able airbox bushing and added power.

The final area of the ZX-10R ABS's power-production blueprint is a race-spec bankrupt arrangement featuring a titanium attack assembly, hydroformed collectors, a large-volume pre-chamber absolute two catalyzers and a awful bunched silencer. Due to the header's race-spec design, riders and racers searching for added closed-course achievement charge alone adapt the muffler assembly.

With the engine bearing a massive abundance of attainable and controllable power, engineers looked to the anatomy to advice clarify administration and all-embracing road/track adequacy even further. An all-new aluminum twin-spar anatomy was designed, an all-cast aggregation of just seven pieces that actualization optimized bend characteristics for ideal accession feedback, cornering achievement and lighter weight than endure year's cage. Below pieces beggarly below welds, which contributes to a cleaner, added aesthetically adorable look. Like the frame, the new admixture swingarm is an all-cast assembly, with arcadian acerbity analogous that of the anatomy itself.

Chassis geometry was juggled to activity the best attainable adherence and administration quickness. Rake, at 25 degrees, is a half-degree steeper than on the 2010 machine, while aisle has been bargain from 110 to 107mm. This hardly added abolitionist foreground end geometry, and the quicker, lighter administration it allows, was fabricated attainable abundantly from the new engine's added controllable power, engine acclimation and the CG differences it generated, and the anatomy and swingarm's newfound bend characteristics.

Highly avant-garde abeyance at both ends helped as well. Up foreground is a 43mm open-class adaptation of the Big Agent Bend (BPF) activate on endure year's comparo-dominating Ninja ZX-6R. Featuring a agent architecture about alert the admeasurement of a accepted armament fork, the BPF offers smoother action, below stiction, lighter all-embracing weight and added damping achievement on the compression and backlash circuits. This added acquiescence after-effects in added ascendancy and acknowledgment for the accession – just what you charge if abstraction through a bouncing sweeper at your bounded clue or negotiating a decreasing-radius bend on your admired backroad.

There's big abeyance account in back, too. Replacing the vertical Uni-TrakВ® arrangement of the 2010 ZX-10R is a Horizontal Back-link abeyance architecture that positions the shock and bond aloft the swingarm. Allowances awning bigger accumulation centralization, bigger alley holding, acquiescence and stability, smoother activity in the mid-stroke (even with firmer settings), bigger all-embracing acknowledgment and acknowledgment running. The architecture aswell frees amplitude ahead taken by the bond accumulation below the swingarm, amplitude now acclimated for the bankrupt pre-chamber, which allows a below muffler and, again, bigger accumulation centralization. The absolutely adjustable shock itself actualization a piggyback backlog and dual-range (low- and high-speed) compression damping.

All-new gravity-cast three-spoke auto are decidedly lighter than the hoops adapted to the 2010 bike, and amalgamate with the absolute latest in anchor technology – Tokico radial-mount calipers acquisitive 310mm blade discs up foreground and a 220mm disc and failing single-piston caliper in back. The aftereffect is able stops with affluence of accession acknowledgment and the added aplomb of the KIBS ABS system.

Finally, Kawasaki engineers captivated all this new technology in bodywork as avant-garde and beautiful as annihilation on this ancillary of a MotoGP grid. Shapes are added arced than belted this year, and the allegory atramentous and atramentous locations actualize a sharp, advancing image. Line-beam headlights accredit the allowance to be fabricated shorter, while LED about-face signals are chip into the mirror assemblies. Convenient turn-signal couplers acquiesce simple mirror abatement for track-day use, while the rear fender accumulation captivation the rear arresting stalks and authorization bowl anatomy is aswell calmly disposable for clue days. High-visibility LED lamps are aswell acclimated for the appendage and position lights.

Instrumentation is absolutely new as well; the aggregation accent by an LED-backlit bar-graph tachometer set aloft a multi-featured LCD advice awning with abundant sections and abstracts panels. A avant-garde ambit of advice is presented, including odometer, bifold cruise meters, car speed, ammunition consumption, Adeptness Approach and S-KTRC akin indicators, low fuel, baptize temperature and abundant more. For clue use, the LCD affectation can be set to “race” approach which moves the accessory affectation to the centermost of the screen.

The new ZX-10R ABS's ergonomics accept been accomplished acquainted for optimum abundance and control, with a hardly lower saddle, adjustable footpegs positioned hardly lower and avant-garde about to endure year, and clip-ons with a bit below bottomward angle. This is a determined sportbike you can in fact yield on a weekend ride – and be analytic adequate accomplishing so. And because it's added than 10 pounds lighter than endure year's bike, the new ZX-10R ABS will be abundant added acquiescent in whatever ambiance you accept to ride it in.

The old saying, “power is annihilation afterwards control” is absolutely apt breadth open-class activity bikes are concerned. But if you agency in all the engine, chassis, ergonomic and anti-lock braking ascendancy advised into the 2011 Ninja ZX-10R ABS, you activate to apprehend you're searching at one absolute appropriate motorcycle – one that will prove to you time and time afresh why it's arguably the a lot of avant-garde sportbike ever.

2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14 motorcycle archetypal Features

Key Features

- 1,352cc inline-four with DFIВ® provides bland adeptness while bearing absorbing amounts of horsepower
- Failing aluminum monocoque anatomy is narrow, able and rigid
- Radial-mounted foreground anchor calipers and radial-pump foreground anchor adept butt amalgamate for above braking adeptness and control
- Six-speed transmission
- Absolutely adjustable abeyance allows for accomplished ascendancy and feedback
- Hydraulic clamp offers absolute clamp affirmation and optimal feel
- Natural yet advancing ergonomics
- Multi-function LCD chart offers a abundance of advice and is simple to read
- Accepted rear bench cowl adds to bike's aerodynamic styling

1,352cc Four-cylinder, DOHC Engine

- Acquainted to accommodate bland adeptness beyond a absolute avant-garde rev ambit while bearing absorbing application numbers
- Chrome composite-plated aluminum butt bores are lightweight, durable, and bound backpack calefaction abroad from the agitation alcove and agent for absolute backbone at top adeptness outputs
- Anxiously advised engine is bunched and narrow
- Low automated babble via appropriate agent contour and urethane insulation breadth on the central of the magnesium alternation cover

High-flow Bankrupt System

- Airflow into the bankrupt from the abounding accessory air ports in the butt arch and arch cover, added a third bore catalyzer in the collector, advice accommodated austere Euro III emissions standards
- Centralized silencer architecture minimizes appulse of emissions regulations while advancement absorbing top-end power
- Bankrupt abutting tube entrances are advised to enhance low-rpm response

Gear-driven Bifold Engine Balancers

- Already in absolute primary balance, the engine actualization bifold accessory balancers that around annihilate exceptionable accordance for acutely bland operation and bargain accession fatigue

Ram Air Induction

- Central ram air aqueduct draws cooler, higher-pressure air from the face of the allowance and calmly guides it through the air cleaner and into the engine for best adeptness output

Digital Ammunition Injection

- 44mm Mikuni burke bodies are adapted with sub-throttle valves controlled by the ECU to accommodate absolute response, bland DFI achievement and advice accommodated Euro III emissions requirements
- Assimilation porting optimizes breeze characteristics
- Injectors bear crabbed aerosol at a 20-degree bend to banish the cautiously atomized ammunition over a avant-garde area
- Fine-atomizing injectors aftermath a 75micron atom size
- 32-bit ECU works with bifold burke valve arrangement to added enhance burke acknowledgment and control

Digital Ignition

- Agenda Timing Advance enhances low- and mid-range power
- Alone atom plug-mounted agitation coils blaze anniversary of the four atom plugs apart to accomplish the optimum timing for that cylinder
- ECU includes an abandoned dispatch ascendancy arrangement for easier starting and warm-up
Radial Pump Clamp Adept Cylinder
- Hydraulic clamp actualization a radial-pump clamp adept butt for bland and absolute clamp affirmation and optimal feel

Next-generation Monocoque Aluminum Frame

- Failing monocoque anatomy is a alveolate aluminum box that arches over the engine from the council arch to the swingarm pivot. It is narrow, strong, adamant and absolute light
- Frame's casting aluminum sections – council arch and swingarm axis areas – are produced via a die-casting activity for weight savings
- Rigidly army engine is a fatigued anatomy member, which increases the frame's torsional acerbity and saves about four pounds
- Engine is positioned avant-garde in the frame, with the wheelbase and front/rear weight antithesis anxiously advised to accomplish accelerated adherence and acknowledging handling
- Massive arch aqueduct casting contributes to anatomy rigidity
- Anatomy houses the air box and air clarify in a space-saving architecture that simplifies air cleaner maintenance
- Array is aswell housed aural the anatomy and is calmly attainable through the aback ancillary of the frame

Suspension

- Astern 43mm cartridge-type foreground bend utilizes damping ante that activity abutting antecedent activity to abide front-end dive if braking
- Stepless damping acclimation improves abeyance performance
- Accomplished ascendancy and acknowledgment from absolutely adjustable bottom-link Uni-TrakВ® rear suspension
- Bond ante acquiesce beeline abeyance action
- Bottom-link architecture helps actualize a lower centermost of gravity, which makes the motorcycle added nimble
- Caster rim centermost ribs are hardly account so annoy antithesis weights can be amid absolutely forth the wheel's centerline

Radial-mount Calipers and Petal-type Discs

- Adorable army four-piston foreground anchor calipers activity greater acerbity than acceptable caliper ascent to advance anchor feel
- A abstracted anchor pad is acclimated for anniversary piston. Alone pads accommodate added cooling adeptness and can blot added calefaction afterwards deforming so they advance a constant anchor feel longer
- Petal-type architecture anchor discs accommodate bigger cooling and bastardize resistance
- Radial-pump foreground anchor adept butt improves anchor achievement and batten feel

Wind Tunnel-designed Bodywork

- Monocoque anatomy is positioned over the engine so the glassy allowance is ceaseless by bulging anatomy spars, abacus to the acutely continued and low styling
- Both the foreground and rear about-face signals are chip into the bodywork and accept ablaze lenses to enhance appearance
- Quadruple projector arbor headlights accord the ZX-14 a characteristic foreground fairing. The alien lights accommodate position lamps and top beams, while the low beams are amid in the centermost lamps
- Failing Denso radiator with high-density cores provides best cooling efficiency

Full Instrumentation

- White faced bifold analog speedometer and tachometer are simple to read
- Multi-function LCD agenda affectation includes an odometer, two cruise meters, ammunition gauge, accessory position indicator and clock
- Programmable about-face indicator lamp illuminates at pre-set rpm to arresting accession upshift
- Programmable clamp affirmation lamp illuminates at pre-set rpm to arresting the accession to appoint the clutch
- Controller Breadth Network (CAN) interface amid the gauges uses below affairs yet allows a greater aggregate of information, such as estimated ammunition mileage, to be exchanged

2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14 motorcycle archetypal Technology

Engine

No aggregation knows added about in-line fours than Kawasaki. From the aboriginal Z-1 to our branch MotoGP bikes, our adeptness about the in-line four-cylinder engine is unsurpassed. The virtues of this architecture are many: powerful, bland active and absolute compact, if it's a Kawasaki superbike, it has to be an in-line four.

Each basic of this amazing engine was thoroughly developed to bear the absolute antithesis of power, torque, and ridability. Twisting the burke on the ZX-14 gives the affectionate of acknowledgment you would apprehend from a abounding bore machine; a seamless advance of alarming torque, appropriate 'round the dial.

Big, 1352cc displacement actualization a bore and achievement of 84 x 61 mm.
Revised assimilation porting provides optimum breeze characteristics.
Revised agent profiles accord to bargain automated noise.

New butt arch and butt arch awning accept beyond accessory air ports (increased about 20%), authoritative it easier to get added air into the bankrupt arrangement for cleaner emissions. The electric Air Switching Valve (ASV) can aswell handle added air volume.

Windage ports amid cylinders abate pumping losses for added adeptness output.
The monocoque anatomy is closed to anatomy the ram-air airbox accidental to the bunched layout.
New urethane breadth added to the central of the magnesium alternation awning aswell helps abate automated noise.

Already in absolute primary balance, the ZX-14 engine uses a accessory aerialist to acclimatized exceptionable vibrations, constant in an acutely bland engine.Three-phase architect is crankshaft army for bargain drive losses.

The crankshaft, ascribe shaft, and achievement shaft are abiding in a tri-axis to actualize a absolute bunched engine length.Digital ammunition bang actualization ECU controlled sub-throttles to bland burke acknowledgment for "carb like" action. The aftereffect is abundant bigger accession ascendancy and affluence of operation.Intake breathes through four massive, 44mm burke bores for top air breeze at top engine loads.

New, fine-atomising injectors with atom admeasurement of 75? access crabbed aerosol bend from 15o to 20o, dispersing atomised ammunition over a added breadth constant in bigger power, smoother operation and accomplished ammunition mileage.Automatic Abandoned Dispatch Ascendancy arrangement contributes to simple starting.

Twin mufflers (each with bore catalyzer) accommodate abounding aggregate for creating the engines massive adeptness and affair bankrupt discharge standards.New centralized muffler construction. Accommodation arrangement of the aboriginal and third accommodation was adjusted, as were the lengths of the pipes bulging from the addle plates

In accession to the already absolute bore catalysers in anniversary muffler, a new third bore catalyser was added in the collector.Entrances to the abutting pipes (joining attack pipes 1-4 & 2-3) were continued about 75% to atone for the new beneficiary actualization (addition of the third bore catalyser). This change in accurate resulted in added torque characteristics, abnormally in the low rpm range.

Slick alive six-speed manual feeds adeptness to the rear wheel.

Direct-actuation about-face batten is lighter than accepted linkage-type arrange and offers a added absolute feel.Hydraulically operated clamp actualization a radial-mount clamp adept butt for worry-free, cottony bland clamp operation.

Chassis

The Ninja ZX-14 runs Kawasaki's absolute aluminum monocoque frame. Rock abiding at speed, and alms acknowledging administration characteristics, this avant-garde anatomy architecture strikes an ideal antithesis amid activity riding, and accelerated active on the highway.

Our engineers fabricated abounding use of the architecture abandon accustomed to them by the engine's bunched size. The engine's position avant-garde in the frame, the wheelbase and front/rear caster weight antithesis were all anxiously called to accomplish both accelerated adherence and acknowledging handling.

Aluminum monocoque anatomy represents a added change of the anatomy aboriginal acclimated on Kawasaki's KR500 racer again in accumulation on the Ninja ZX-12R. This avant-garde architecture makes attainable a absolute slim, bunched package.

Fuel accumulation is amid at the rear of the "tank" and extends below the seat, added accidental to the centralized mass.

Already inherently added adamant than twin-spar frames, with the engine rigid-mounted the torsional acerbity is added increased. Application the engine as a fatigued affiliate allows the anatomy to be fabricated lighter.New die-casting activity for the capital anatomy sections after-effects in a lighter frame.Massive arch aqueduct casting aswell contributes to the top rigidity.

Bolt-on, aluminum rear sub-frame includes alpine ancillary plates accidental to the different administration and creating a absolute narrower mid-section.

Monocoque anatomy architecture creates a abandoned central the anatomy that is acclimated to abode assorted electrics including the M-F battery.The alveolate area of the anatomy abaft the council arch serves assignment as the airbox for the ram-air system.

The aggregate of the monocoque anatomy with rigid-mounted engine and a accumulation amid at the centerline gives the ZX-14 acute adherence at top speeds.

Chassis is attenuated through the boilerplate for above accession control.Engine and anatomy apparatus were all advised to aerate accumulation centralization.Inverted, 43 mm armament bend uses a abounding diameter, alveolate arbor for ablaze weight and absolute council feedback.

Fork includes adjustments for compression damping, backlash damping, and ride height.

Uni-trak bond rear abeyance complements the awful adamant frame, alms both abundant controllability at top speeds and superb alley captivation adeptness if activity benumbed in the hills.

Gas answerable aback aback backlog shock includes adjustments for compression damping, backlash damping, and bounce preload.

Formidable foreground anchor achievement is added added with a radial-pump adept butt that offers superb feel at the lever.

Semi-floating, drilled, blade style, 310 mm foreground anchor rotors are absorbed by Nissin, adorable mount, 4-piston, 4-pad calipers.

Rear anchor actualization 250 mm, drilled, blade actualization rotor and 2-piston caliper for added endlessly adeptness and bigger braking feel.

Wheels affection centermost ribs that are hardly account so that annoy antithesis weights can be amid at the caster centerline.

Brakes/Wheels

Formidable foreground anchor achievement is added added with a radial-pump adept butt that offers superb feel at the lever.

Use of four alone anchor pads promotes even calefaction administration beyond anniversary pad around eliminating achromatize due to pad warpage at top temperatures.

Rearbrake actualization 250mm, drilled, blade actualization rotor and 2-piston callipers for added endlessly adeptness and bigger braking feel.

Newly advised auto affection centre ribs that are hardly account so that annoy antithesis weights can be amid at the caster centreline.

Ergonomics

In animosity of the ZX-14's alarming performance, the apparatus is decidedly non-intimidating. This is due as abundant to the seamless adeptness delivery, as it is to the bland ride and its rider-friendly ergonomics. On the ZX-14, the archetypal weekend adventure leaves the accession active and invigorated.

Despite its continued and low appearance, the ZX-14 offers a absolute airy activity benumbed position.

Compact afterwards getting cramped, the confined are positioned so that riders do not accept to amplitude to ability them.

Low-set footpegs accord abounding legroom.

The low bench acme and attenuated bench foreground accomplish it simple to ability the arena if chock-full at lights.

The attenuated engine, monocoque frame, and waisted ammunition catchbasin accomplish it simple to accumulate knees calmly abutting calm if riding.

A abasement in the ammunition catchbasin awning facilitates tucking in abaft the screen.

Aerodynamics & Styling

The ZX-14 exudes an ambience of adeptness and affirmation activate alone in the world's a lot of able machines. As befits its flagship status, the ZX-14 offers a aggregate of avant garde design, accurate adroitness and absorption to detail. Whether anchored in foreground of a cafГ© or zooming calmly down the highway, this is a apparatus humans will notice.

The ZX-14's bodywork gives it acutely continued and low styling. The foreground cowl extends able-bodied over the foreground caster and the allowance about hides the foreground wheel. All the curve of the bike move from foreground to rear, giving the bike an consequence of dispatch even if it continuing still.

Because the monocoque anatomy goes over the engine and does not beetle through the fairing, a smooth, ceaseless allowance architecture is possible.

The ZX-14's multifunctional aerodynamics amalgamation reduces drag, adds adherence at artery speeds and keeps you out of the wind if activity benumbed in the hills.

Raised "Kawasaki" and archetypal emblems accord to the chic styling.

Long foreground fender with aerodynamic ancillary wings contributes to the ultra top dispatch abeyant of the ZX-14.

Fuel catchbasin actualization a flush-surface catchbasin cap.

A baby under-cowl avant-garde of the rear caster contributes to the bike's abounding lines. This under-cowl is removed if applicative the alternative centermost stand.

LED appendage lamp actualization a different "V" design. This will be the a lot of accepted actualization of the ZX-14 on the move.

Front and rear about-face signals are chip into the allowance and rear cowl. Ablaze arresting lenses with orange bulbs accord to the top superior appearance.

Standard accessories abandoned bench awning complements the aerodynamic styling. Removing the awning reveals the bench beneath.

Quadruple projector arbor headlights beautify the ZX-14's foreground cowl. The alien lights accommodate position lamps and the top beams. Low beams are in the two centermost lamps.

All four beams on (when HI arbor selected) creates abundant ablaze to about-face night into day.

Central Ram Air aqueduct like that of added Ninja models gives the ZX-14 a constant Kawasaki face.

Instrumentation

Nestled in the awning is an apparatus array with LCD advice centre and bifold electric analog gauges for speedometer and tachometer.

White beat faces with atramentous book makes the meters simple to apprehend in daylight. Beat faces attending atramentous with white book and the beat all-overs afterglow red at night.

Multi-function LCD agenda affectation includes:
- coolant temperature gauge
- accessory position indicator
- ammunition akin gauge
- boilerplate ammunition mileage
- burning ammunition mileage
- ammunition range
- array voltage
- about-face indicator ablaze (rpm programmable)
- appoint rpm indicator ablaze (rpm programmable)
- dual, A/B cruise meters
- odometer
- agenda clock

Multi-function LCD agenda affectation accent can be set for English or French. Affectation can aswell be set for litres, US gallon, or Imperial gallon.

Shift and appoint indicator lights can be set alone for bright, dim, blinking, or off.

Use of CAN interface amid the beat and the ECU reduces the bulk of cables and allows a greater aggregate of advice (e.g. ammunition consumption) to be exchanged.

CAN (Controller Breadth Network) is the latest bearing On Board Diagnostics interface system.

Anti-theft ambit congenital into the agitation about-face and ECU prevents hotwiring by joy riders.

Quadruple projector arbor headlights beautify the ZX-14's foreground cowl. The alien lights accommodate position lamps and the top beams. Low beams are in the two centermost lamps.

All four beams on (when HI arbor selected) creates abundant ablaze to about-face night into day.

Front and rear about-face signals are chip into the allowance and rear cowl. Ablaze arresting lenses with orange bulbs accord to the top superior appearance.

Central Ram Air aqueduct like that of added Ninja models gives the ZX-14 a constant Kawasaki face.

2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14 - USA Specifications
MSRP: $13,599 USD

Engine: Four-stroke, liquid-cooled, DOHC, four valve per cylinder, inline-four
Displacement: 1,352cc
Bore x stroke: 84.0 x 61.0mm
Compression ratio: 12.0:1
Fuel system: DFIВ® with four 44mm Mikuni burke bodies
Ignition: TCBI with Agenda Advance
Transmission: Six-speed
Final drive: X-Ring chain
Rake / trail: 23 degrees / 3.7 in.
Front tire: 120/70 ZR17
Rear tire: 190/50 ZR17
Wheelbase: 57.5 in.

Front abeyance / caster travel: 43mm astern armament bend with adjustable preload, 13-way compression and 11-way backlash damping acclimation / 4.6 in.
Rear abeyance / caster travel: Bottom-link Uni-TrakВ® and gas-charged shock with adjustable preload, stepless backlash and compression damping adjustments, adjustable ride acme / 4.8 in.
Front brakes: Bifold semi-floating 310 mm blade discs with bifold radial-mounted four-piston calipers
Rear brakes: Single 250mm blade disc with twin-piston caliper
Overall length: 85.4 in.
Overall width: 29.9 in.
Overall height: 46.1 in.
Ground clearance: 4.9 in.
Seat height: 31.5 in.
Curb weight: 566.7 lbs.
Fuel capacity: 5.8 gal.
Color: Candy Lime Green / Ebony, Ebony
Warranty: 12 Months

2011 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14 - Canada Specifications
MSRP: $16,099 CDN

ENGINE
Type 4-stroke, aqueous cooled, In-Line Four
Displacement 1352 cc
Bore and Achievement 84.0 x 61.0 mm
Compression Arrangement 12.0 :1
Fuel Bang Гё 44 mm x 4 (Keihin)
Valve Arrangement DOHC, 16 valves
Lubrication Forced lubrication, wet sump

DRIVETRAIN

Transmission 6-speed, return, absolute aloof finder
Clutch Wet multi-disc, hydraulic actuation
Final Abridgement Arrangement 2.412 (41/17)
Final Drive Closed Chain
Primary Abridgement Arrangement 1.541 (94/61)
Gear Ratios: 1st 2.625 (42/16)
2nd 1.947 (37/19)
3rd 1.545 (34/22)
4th 1.333 (32/24)
5th 1.154 (30/26)
6th 1.036 (29/28)

FRAME
Type Monocoque, aluminum
Tires: Foreground 120/70ZR17
Wheel Travel: Foreground 117 mm
Tires: Rear 190/50ZR17
Wheel Travel: Rear 122 mm
Caster (Rake) 23Вє
Trail 94 mm
Steering Bend (Left/Right) 30Вє/30Вє

SUSPENSION
Suspension, Foreground 43 mm astern fork. 13-click compression damping, 11-click backlash damping, and stepless ride height
Suspension, Rear Bottom-Link Uni-Trak with gas answerable shock. Stepless compression damping, stepless backlash damping, and stepless bounce preload

BRAKES
Front: Type Bifold semi-floating 310 mm drilled, blade actualization discs
Front: Calipers Dual, against 4-piston, 4-pad, adorable mount
Rear: Type Single 250 mm drilled, blade actualization disc
Rear: Calipers Against 2-piston

PERFORMANCE
Maximum Adeptness 193PS @ 9,500rpm
Maximum Adeptness w/ Ram Air 203PS @ 9,500rpm
Maximum Torque 154 N-m @7,500rpm

DIMENSIONS
Overall Breadth 2,170 mm
Overall Width 760 mm
Overall Acme 1,170 mm
Wheelbase 1,460 mm
Seat Acme 800 mm
Curb Accumulation 257 kg
Fuel Accommodation 22 litres
Fuel Burning 6.7 L/100 km (42 MPG)

DETAILS
MSRP* $16,099.00
Colours Ebony
Warranty 12 months

ADDITIONAL COST OPTIONS
Good Times Protection Plan 24 or 36 months (Kawasaki GTPP advantage begins afterwards the accepted bound assurance expires)

* The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Amount does not awning freight, pre-delivery analysis or applicative taxes. The final amount is at the acumen of the dealer. Prices and Blueprint are accountable to change afterwards above-mentioned notice.

The blueprint mentioned actuality administer to and accept been accomplished by accumulation models beneath accepted operating conditions. We intend alone to accord a fair description of the car and its achievement capabilities but these blueprint may not administer to every apparatus supplied for sale. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. affluence the appropriate to adapt blueprint afterwards above-mentioned notice. Accessories illustrated and blueprint may alter to accommodated alone markets. Attainable colours may alter by market.

Source : TotalMotorcycle.com