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2014 Kawasaki Ninja 1000 ABS – First Look Review

For 2014, Kawasaki’s entire street lineup returns except for the Vulcan 1700 Classic—only baggers will be in the Vulcan 1700 cruiser lineup. Tweaks to...

2013 Middleweight Metric Cruiser Comparison Review

My favorite comfort foods, heart-warming and artery-clogging classics like mac-and-cheese, buttermilk biscuits and pulled-pork barbecue, are straightforward and uncomplicated, each prepared with a short...

2013 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 Classic – Review

In Roman times, Vulcan was the god of fire. In the 1960s, Vulcan came to be known as the home planet of Spock on...

2013 Sport-Touring Comparison Test: BMW K1600GT, BMW R1200RT, Kawasaki Concours 14, Triumph Trophy, Yamaha FJR1300

Sport touring, a hybrid category that blends the performance of sportbikes with the comfort of touring bikes, takes many forms. Some add a taller...

2013 Kawasaki Concours 14 – Road Test Review

When the Kawasaki Concours 14 sped onto the sport-touring scene for 2008, it easily arm-wrestled the competition into submission. With its liquid-cooled, 1,352cc in-line...

2012 Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Voyager ABS | Road Test Review

My fiancée loves spontaneous adventure, but she’s had it with me proposing last-minute weekend getaways and showing up on a test bike she’s never...

Rider Comparo: 2013 Honda CRF250L vs. 2013 Kawasaki KLX250S vs. 2013 Yamaha WR250R

The last time Rider corralled a herd of 250 dual-sports (April 2008), we chose the thriftiest models available in the face of rising gas...

2012 Kawasaki Ninja 1000 | Road Test Review

Gold is highly valued for its luster, purity and rarity, characteristics that also apply to motorcycles, to varying degrees. Our Kawasaki Ninja 1000 test...

Rider Comparo: Honda NC700X vs. Kawasaki Versys vs. Suzuki V-Strom 650 ABS

Mid-size bikes make a lot of sense. Not only because they tend to be less expensive and lighter, but also because they have become...

2013 Kawasaki Ninja 300 ABS – First Ride Review

Like its ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it KLR650 dual-sport, Kawasaki produced the Ninja 250 for more than two decades before giving it a major overhaul for 2008. Styling...

Video Review | 2013 Kawasaki ZX-6R 636 Ninja

Rider Magazine was at the unveiling of the 2013 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R at Times Square in New York City. In the video above, Kawasaki...

Kawasaki's Ninja Times Square Takeover Goes Big

Kawasaki likes to do things big. This time, they went all out. Enormous video billboards in the middle of New York City’s Times Square helped...

Kawasaki Unveils More 2013 Ninja Sportbikes

September 13, New York City – Kawasaki has taken over Times Square today, using one of the most high-profile locations in the world to...

2012 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R at the Dragstrip | Video

Rider Magazine went to Las Vegas to test the all new 2012 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R. We spent a day with Rickey Gadson at the...

Early-Release 2013 Kawasakis – First Look Review

Confident that neither the Mayan calendar nor the contentious presidential election will bring the world to a grinding halt later this year, Kawasaki is...

Retrospective: Kawasaki KZ750-E: 1980 – 1982

(This Retrospective article was featured in the July 2012 issue of Rider Magazine) Story and photography by Clement Salvadori Year/Model: 1981 Kawasaki KZ750-E Owner: Franco Teti, Los...

2012 BMW ­­G 650 GS Sertão vs. 2012 Kawasaki KLR650 Comparison Review

What would you do with an extra $2,351? Even at today’s high prices, you could fill your gas tank hundreds of times. You could...

2012 Kawasaki Ninja 650 | Road Test Review

Before a burst of technology and specialization in the mid 1980s commenced sharpening our motorcycles into sportbikes, long-distance luxury tourers and cruisers, a street...

Riding Among Giants, A 2011 Kawasaki Concours 14 ABS Tour Test

Our motivations differed, but our destination was the same. Having fallen under the spell of majestic redwoods several years ago at Muir Woods National...

2012 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R | First Ride Review

At the dawn of the 21th century, as the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-12 and Suzuki GSX-1300R Hayabusa duked it out for top-speed bragging rights, motorcycle...

Video Review | Kawasaki ZX-14R

Rider Magazine went to Las Vegas to test the all new 2012 Kawasaki ZX-14R. We spent a day with Rickey Gadson at the Las...

2012 BMW K 1600 GT vs. 2011 Kawasaki Concours 14 | Comparison Test Review

photography by Kevin Wing This comparison was inevitable. After the Kawasaki Concours 14 won our last sport-touring comparison (Rider, November 2010), among the new bikes...

2012 Kawasakis – First Look Review

Even though the leaves are turning brown, the season is green…Kawasaki green. The company has pulled the covers off its new-for-2012 street models, which...

2011 Star Stratoliner Deluxe vs. 2011 Kawasaki Vulcan Vaquero | Comparison Test Review

photography by Rich Cox With chopper-mania fading farther and farther in the rearview mirror, the V-twin world has shifted its attention to baggers. As a...

2011 Honda CBR250R vs. Kawasaki Ninja 250R – Comparison Test Review

photography by Rich Cox Reading the Honda CBR250R test, I’m sure you felt an elephant in the room, albeit a small one—Kawasaki ’s popular Ninja...

2011 Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Vaquero | Road Test Review

With today’s economic realities, we all want more for our money. We want “Buy One, Get One Free,” we want “But wait—there’s more,” and...

2011 Kawasaki Ninja 1000 | Road Test Review

photography by Adam Campbell Perhaps because of our Puritanical roots, naked bikes aren’t terribly popular here in the United States. Europeans love ’em, whether they...

California Sport-Touring Loops on the Kawasaki Concours 14

story and photography by Clement Salvadori The road unrolls rapidly before me, the endless ribbon of two-lane blacktop smoothing out the hills and curves, disappearing...

Five 2010 Kawasaki Motorcycles Under $8,000: KLR650, Versys, ER-6n, Ninja 650R, KLX250S

photography by Kinney Jones Kawasaki's flagship bikes such as the Concours 14, ZX-10R and Voyager top many a wish list, but...

2010 Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Voyager – Road Test Review

Riding the 892-pound Kawasaki Voyager around town is a little like taking a Carnival Cruise ship across a pond. Once on the open...

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