RE: PH2: Kawasaki Ninja 300

[strudel]

Whilst a 600cc+ bike is great for riding in every situation, I do wonder if they're a bit too easy to ride and unless you take them to a track, largely wasted. With something like a Ninja 300, you'd have to work it and might be more fun down a B road. Looks like the 250 is about 7 secs to 60 so no slouch; maybe they're more popular in the states because they have big wide roads so easy to overtake on so no need for huge reserves of power.

[Electro1980]

raptor600 said:

As a non bike rider I have 2 random questions...

What sort of 0-60 figure would we be looking at?

Would it move with a 14 1/2 stone 6 foot 1 bloke on it?

Look forward to being enlightened!

0-60? Lord knows. At a guess I'd say around 5-6 seconds based on other bikes of simelar power.

14 1/2 stone, no problem at all. You might be a little cramped, but you'd soon be able to tell sitting on it.

[abarber]

The previous donkey Ninja 250 did sixty in either 7.5 or 10 seconds to sixty depending on which magazine. The EX500 was always the one to get tbh, right back in the GPX250 days.

For something slow, but much better handling, but tiny and slack, get an SZR660. Stunning alloy chassis from the last jap only TZR250R and mint ones start at a grand.