New 2020 Kawasaki ZX-25R 250cc Inline-4 Motorcycle Announced 

Bro top speed

Who's Zed? Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

It's Zee not Zed....

@@gregoryaparker No it's pronounced zed, also colour has a letter u in it and Aluminium has n i in it too. Fucking Americans ruining our language!! While I'm at "do the math" as you say over there makes no fucking sense either surely it has to be "do the MATHS!!!" England and America 2 countries separated by a common language.

Pretty sure when we kicked the crap outta England way back then that meant the United States will always be correct in any dispute. Just be glad we let you keep your little queen and all the socialist programs they have. If there was any up side to us you'd be the 51st state today, lol. We have enough problems taking care of our southern neighbors.

Sean Parker hell yeah it does.

I fear the whole bike would be physically too small for me, but you are correct after riding for over 43 years I've concluded the most fun can generally be found wringing the neck of a small machine on a winding hilly road. While I have large cc machines for touring, you just can't ride a large capacity machine consistently hard on public roads without reaching crazy unsafe and illegal speeds. For a pleasure ride I find my older and less powerful bikes provide a bigger grin. Riding a less powerful bike "Fast" is more fun than riding a really powerful one "slowly" IME.

In the US... the best place for this bike is on a farm next to a cow.

@@fiveowaf454 Using it in OUR modern traffic system..... equates to death.

@@nuffflavor My personal opinion is riding any Sports style bike with the head down, butt up riding position greatly increases the opportunities for disaster, you just have so much of a better view of what's happening all around you with a more upright riding position and a tall one where you can see over other vehicles. The fact physically small bikes have less road presence doesn't help either.

a 45hp detuned variant would sell like hotcakes to the LAMS crowd.

D R Kawasaki Au emailed me back, they say the ZX25R will not make Aus. Kawasaki Global emailed me back and said it is not known where it will land.

@@bigmost4300 that's shit go

@@bigmost4300 250cc Asia 1st ~

@@bigmost4300 I emailed Kawasaki NZ and they said they are waiting to hear back from Japan. What ever that means. I dont want a LAMS bike, I want a full power screamer! I cant for the life of me understand why they would not offer this to the whole world after all that R & D work. I went through the same thing two years ago with the Honda CBR250RR which is still limited to a handful of Asian countries. I dont get it.

me too

I want one .... hopefully suzuki will bring that gsxr 125

SAME HERE! I daily an MT09, and i would love this bike for the track

Same

@leicanoct I want it in Canada, in this colour spec

They are a load of hell slower than a F1, and a lot slower than my modified Aprilia RS 250 2-stroke too ;)

lol you can se the ass of my modified Aprilia RS 250 2 -stroke that both have 15 hp´s more and are 20 kg lighter than that green leadbike on wheels ;)

@@mattiasandersson3444 sorry lad where not talking speed here. We talking the sound of 19k rpm just like 90's where the 250s inline 4 whining on street.

@@jgy13 that quit "whining" cant be compared to a 500cc 2-stroke 4 cyl v engine😜

two stroke its useless now.i Its illegal on public road. Just keep in your garage.

Would be a sweet replacement for the ZX-6R!

@@motobob yes indeed 😎🤘

@@motobob Why's that?

JoeGo101 I am in Australia and can’t wait to find out if it is coming here as it will be my first bike and am struggling to convince parents about reliability of a 90’s bike

Jeremy R I think he’s talking about JoeGo’s zx6r..

then i have bad news for you

@@user-jt6nw6wm5q tell me that

Totally agree, even if i already have a very low mileage Aprilia RS 250 - 00 in very good condition. But teoreticly there is posible now with fuel and oil injected 2-strokes that pass the emisson requirments..like outboard boatmotors for example.

Indonesia also has the Ninja SS, 2 stroke 150cc. Would love to play with that too.

Ninja 150 is called in Malaysia,Singapore ,Thailand and Indonesia, super light and tons of mod items

@Chaldean King already have a 600 and it'd be fun to piss off liter bike riders by leaving em in the twisties on a 250

R3's are already giving bigger bike's hell in the corners, and you can't hold open a 600 or a litre bike like a smaller bike. 2 more cylinders and a higher rpm with some more go go juice, depending on the road / track layout I don't see these having as much as an issue to keep up maybe even pass and should be less to insure giving weight and engine size. A good exhaust / intake and a tune might even suprise you.

@Chaldean King an inline 4 250cc bike is a different beast.

@Chaldean King because 19k rpm is fun as hell and it's a big flex to have one. My 636 pushes 125hp, this bike would push more than half that with a tune and weigh 100 lbs less. That's absolutely nuts and it'd be way more fun to ride

I echo your sentiments from Australia. Don’t be silly Kawasaki, send it world wide.

Looks like a nice bike

Glad you are in Canada. Might be a fight in line to snag one of these! Had a CB400F as my first street bike. Been waiting on these to come back.

Bat Person with full exhaust. Yea People will think you’re riding a F1

@@grumpybraincells6612 an F1 in 2nd gear going only around 100kph at 19k rpms. Glorious.

@@batperson3532 oh yea can't wait to pick one up from the dealer

@@BrendanRaymondKoroKoro 16k is still high and seems standard on many bigger inline 4s. My ninja 250 has redline at 13k but the rev limiter doesn't hit until almost 14k so it might go a bit into the red. I'm still not disappointed because I can't imagine it would really benefit from higher revs other than sound. I wonder if it is possible that they borrowed that tach from another bike because they haven't made the real one yet. Either way they didn't give us much information to go on because it is still early.

@@BrendanRaymondKoroKoro I understand but the bikes from the 90s had their peak power at like 12k the extra revs would definitely help if the power doesn't drop off much. It is also important to think about reliability and service intervals. If it revs a little lower it is safer and may not need valve adjustments as often. I don't know if emissions/fuel economy are something that would be affected but I think it might.

You, sir, are a cunning linguist...lol

Badoom-Tishh! 🥁

Cheers bob. Yeah I think riding a lightweight 250 with 60hp would make for more fun on the road than the bigger bikes, absolutely

I agree fully but I still want the Aprilia RS660 more. If it can be A2 restricted I’m buying one come April no questions asked

Ludovico Sestilli 58 i think

wont't work as an A2 bike tho

@@Daniel-dj7fh you can restrict any bike up to 93hp (70kw) and ride it as an A2 bike (35kw). Plenty of people do this and even dealerships offer this option, for instance on 650cc ninjas, cbr650rs, mt07 etc. Not too difficult to de-restrict when you need more power :)

@@180FiftyFive touché why wasnt that in my brain when i commented

@@180FiftyFive yea, you're right. for some reason that didnt come up to my mind at that time

Take my money.

If it comes here, it will cost as much as a 6R.

Oh, dunno if you've ever actually ridden a bike, but the 6R is just as flickable as the 400, even more so due to proper suspension.

I think if they made a 400 version in the same frame etc. like you had the 250 and 400 models in the Japanese bikes in the late 70's and 80's the 400 would really be something special.

No way a 250 would sound like a 636 pal..lmao

Ali Kazi Right!

as someone who bought a 400 sorta recently but not recently enough to take it back, i'm fucking crying

@@raulreyes2384 how much better is the zx25r vis the 400?

@@GeorgeLista zx25r is slow. Only good at the 5th gear but by that time, Ninja 400 is already miles away.

So probably not a good city bike then? Haha

@@motobob not unless you like revving a bike away from every set of lights like it's the start of moto gp. On the upside, in wet weather, if you keep it under 7000 revs it's probably making less power than a scooter so you'll never highside it.....

@@robbikebob sounds like exactly what you would want. i loved my 250rrs they screamed everywhere

motogp already has a 250 class.

@@thinkdunson Seems the Spec class of today is for the KTM 390 single cylinder bike .. I don't follow GP but I know at one time they had a class for 50 cc 100 cc 125 cc 250 cc ect..

@@thinkdunson Moto 3 is 250cc, but restricted to a single cylinder I believe under current rules to keep costs down. World Superbikes WSP300 is confusingly for up to 400cc at least as the Ninja 400 is homologated, but I don't know what restrictions there are on the number of cylinders etc. in that currently most are twins, but being based on production machinery that's basically all there is to choose from. If legal then I can imagine a 400 version of this being available soon, that really would be a nice little machine.

Will keep my eyes peeled for any information

I think it is really funny that every country seems to be asking this question. kawasaki only said worldwide or international depending on translation but what does that mean. kawasaki is teasing hard.

jose antonio lago that sounds crazy fun

I had an MZ ETZ-251 and a CBR-250RR in my late teens, and I had so much fun on those two

@@Keefus78 My 251 had a sidecar and it got stolen, in Havana, just a week after, I got it out the container.

Had one too. My starter bike! Lovely little 2 stroke machine.

It was a 2 stroke yes

Lol a Honda RS 250 2-stroke 250 has 90-100 hp.

@@mattiasandersson3444 What year will Honda release a new one of those in America? :-)

@@1compaqedr8 Here you can buy one when they have one available ;) www.gpmotorbikes.com/index.php/en/

@@1compaqedr8 you can even buy a real motoGP bike if you have the Money :P www.gpmotorbikes.com/index.php/en/motogp/kawasaki-2014-motogp-detail

@@mattiasandersson3444 bruh

Exactly what i was thinking. I defiantly think a 400cc version with the same chassis setup and what not making around 60hp and only 12,000rpms would be better in the long run. Either way this bike is cool as hell glad they are bringing back the small super bike class back.

$10k is the sweet spot for this bike.

@@hby7768 I agree because it's way more fun to ride a slow bike fast than a 600-1000cc slow

$10k is too much. The zx6r is $10k. This needs to be less to draw those who think a new 600cc is already too much. I’d say $7k. That’s an awesome price point.

@Chaldean King I like this 250 better 😁

@Chaldean King doesn't matter what I say because you'll never understand 😁

Stonks!

Lol..for sure

@shadrock99 hahaha it's mispelled and not miss pelled !! Let me guess? Miss school??

This is not to be related to age, it is all about soul, which is immortal.

Ronnie Franks what does your age have anything to do with this?

I"m with ya Ronnie, you have to be over 60 to remember the history of what we"ve lost to time

@@xxthehuskycaboosexx i think what he is getting at is market demographics most guys his age gravitate to big bagger Harleys so hes just making a point that it appeals to the older crowd as well.

@@xxthehuskycaboosexx As I'm approaching Ronnie's age one thing I can tell you age has to do with it, is contorting your body for long into the shape required for these sports bikes :) unless you are vertically challenged :). However mature riders remembering the 250's of our youth cannot help but get excited as we are taken back to the times of our teens with hot 250's and 350 or 400 versions of the same bike being the one that had the performance we yearned for. Despite growing older I can say after 43 years of riding, it still gives me the same thrill and grin in the helmet it always did. While I can still throw a leg over the saddle of something I'll keep riding for as long as I can.

yeah I like it because it isn't designed with beginners in mind. I want to stick with small bikes but there aren't any small bikes that have real sportbike ergonomics except for the duke 390 but I won't give up a cylinder for that thing. I always have wanted a four cylinder but I can't afford insurance on a 600.

@@sed8181 exactly ^^^

@@sed8181 if your in the EU a lot of the 90s 400CCs bikes can be had.

@@benclimo461 I'm in the US so we didn't get a whole lot of them. the only faired 400 was the fzr400 I think. They all are hidden away somewhere or junked because I have never seen one up for sale ever. There was a legally imported mc22 that showed up a while back but it went back into hiding. Most of those weren't really legally imported anyway.

@@sed8181 ahh that's unfortunate. I'm in the UK and see them being put up here and there, most of them go for around £2500-5000 at least.

Cheers Dave appreciate it

It is about 1 million japanese yen in Japan.

I second this motion. I already own a 250cc I4 too!

How about $3500???? www.ebay.com/itm/274085913409

When 350/400 fours were cheap old bombs.

CB400 would like a chat :p

@@SirSpinalColumn currently out of production I was referring to new bikes on the market and available in the US but cb400 was the bike that got me into bikes tho so cool mention :3

Surely there's a case for both

MOTOBOB perhaps a buy one get one half off type of deal?

MOTOBOB perhaps a buy one get one half off type of deal?

Only seems fair!

From what country are you?i want get the 250 btw im from usa.

ASAP!

No they won't. You would have to be an idiot to spend $12K for a 60 hp bike. This is a tax dodge bike for Asia.

okleydokley why the fuck would they be $12k that makes no fucking sense. It probably is gonna be around 8-9k.

@@elreydavid96 This is my dream bike. I would gladly pay $13K for one!

kivriel2 I doubt the insurance companies would like a supercharged 70hp motorcycle that would be learner legal in some jurisdictions. I lived through the Pepsi branded and lucky strike branded Suzuki RGV era. Where I lived, every single one sold was either crashed or stolen at least once. Some, up to five times

@@theairstig9164 Yeah, definetly not a learner bike anymore. But downsizing is coming in the auto industry. Rumored to come on bikes too. I could consider a supercharged 250!

Bro di Indonesia sudah ada jepang tidak mengirim ke eropa yaa

@@silasa9182 Tidak, Inggris tidak mendapatkannya dengan sedih

@@HippoDrones hanya ada di pasar Indonesia 🇮🇩 jepang mengirim kawasaki 4 slinder 250cc di Malaysia juga tidak ada motor ini bunyinya bagus dan sesuay untuk anak muda

@@silasa9182 Ini memalukan, saya jelas tidak muda lagi, tapi saya akan bersenang-senang di trek dengan 250cc atau 400cc inline empat! :D

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-go2GRHrd8a4.html check this link. it has Max 20.000 RPM

amen.

It looks like an angry bug...

@@MrGuano11 lol

Yes, screaming rpm = doomed for a crash, on city riding!