Kawasaki’s ZRX1100/1200 family are pretty-looking but steady away road bikes – but what happens when you put one into stealth mode?

These two may look alike, but do they supply the same emotions? It’s a battle of the classic four-cylinder Kawasaki Z650 versus it’s twin-cylinder doppelgänger – the modern Z650RS ‘retro’. Game on!

A well-known fast food franchise recently ran an advertising campaign with a slogan that read – ‘Like getting your money's worth?’ Well, the Kawasaki KE100 rather neatly fits into the same slot!

The books in the Lean, mean and lime green series are without doubt the most complete story ever told of racing with Kawasaki in the USA and the long-awaited Volume Two covers the important years

Take a look at Ian Cleveley’s Kawasaki GPZ750 Turbo! Here’s what Ian had to say about his bike!

Check out CMM reader Alastair Hill’s 1977 Kawasaki KH400.

CMM reader Colin Oldroyd has sent in his before and after pictures of his 1982 Kawasaki GPZ550H!

Ahhh! The Kawasaki Z1000… where should we start? Well, with the name of course! Now, we’re clearly not talking about the legendary Z1000 of old, we’re talking about the big Zed that came forth in

We love getting your nostalgic snaps of you back in the day with your steed!

Some road-going classics are forever linked with the racers that made them famous – and no more so than the Eddie Lawson Replica.

Suzuki GSX-R600 tested! Honda Firestorm! Kawasaki Tengai! This edition of Classic Motorcycle Mechanics has got it all!

Here are a few pics of CMM reader Mike Hackman’s 2000, ZX-12R, which he bought new in the crate.

Here is Dave Wolf’s 1996 Kawasaki ZZ-R1100, or his ‘ZX11’ as he calls them.

10 years ago, Steve sent in his Kawasaki GPZ500! Want to see your pride and joy in our magazine, on our website and on our social media pages? Then fill in the form here>> Steve Powroznyk,

Kenny sent in his Kawasaki Z1000 MKII, all the way back in 2006.

These are the new Kawasaki W800 Street and W800 CAFÉ and they are coming to a dealership near you in 2019. 

CMM reader Mickey Thomas’ sent in his Kawasaki H1 Special!

Here’s CMM reader Gary Forth’s Kawasaki ZX-7R P4! 

Roy Mabbott has restored his 1979 Kawasaki 2400G he bought for just £40

Its been a decade, that’s right, TEN YEARS since Andy sent us his Kawasaki GPZ900!

Check out Steve’s Kawasaki Z650!

Naked style, beastly power: Kawasaki’s Z900 gets a real life reboot

I have to say I love doing these tests for CMM

As fraught as it can be to organise a multi-bike road test, sometimes the effort is worth it: today is just such a day.

Check out Jhon’s collection!

Honda’s CBX1000 may have the edge in the race to cult status, but the big Kawasaki lived over twice as long and has easily earned its Retro Reboot.

They missed the big race-rep stroker phase, but if Kawasaki ever built one, it might just look like this.

Our very own wizened sages, Messrs Mark Haycock and Steve Cooper are here to answer all of your woes, be they mechanical or spiritual.

Mark Haycock and Steve Cooper are here to answer all of your woes.

What do you think? Should Kawasaki revitalise one of the best-looking sportsbikes ever built?

Kawasaki didn’t build many water-cooled two-strokes before emission regulations kicked in.

With rumblings of a new Hayabusa in the wings and the all-new Kawasaki H2 SX sports tourer already on the market for 2018, could the time be ripe for a new Honda Blackbird?

Here’s Gary Hooley’s Kawasaki GPZ1000RX. 

Take a look at Paul Wrigley’s 1976 Kawasaki Z900 A4. 

In this edition of Show Us Yours, here’s Paul’s 1999 Kawasaki 800 Drifter.

In this edition of Show Us Yours, take a look at Ian Gardner’s Kawasaki racer. 

In this edition of Show Us Yours, take a look at Anton Manning’s collection. Want to see your pride and joy in our magazine, on our website and on our social media pages, fill in

  Perhaps you have to go further back to the charismatic ‘naked’ US Championship superbikes of Eddie Lawson, David Aldana and Wayne Rainey in the late 1970s and early Eighties or the World Championship winning

Editor Tony’s little quiz to identify the two riders in the Kawasaki sandwich in the great archive shot in the last issue of Classic Racer caused great interest, with my inbox jammed with correct answers

The three-year plan It was only ever allowed to briefly exist for 36 months and yet no other Japanese two-stroke works 500cc Grand Prix racer got into the psyche of racing in quite the same

Q: Hello, I’d appreciate your opinion on the need for coil replacement on my Z650 F1. I’ve recently fitted a Z750E1 engine into my Z650 frame, The bike is running fine but I’m wondering if

Not every bike can be a winner, Kawasaki’s mid-Eighties GPz-750 was one such near-miss. Though well worthy of compliment, rivals’ superiority relegated it to runner-up status. That silver medal placing is something I remember well

With a production run of 17 years, the much-loved ZZ-R600 was a fantastic middleweight sports tourer and remains a cheap buy today. We wonder what it would look like for the iPad generation…   A

Have a look at Simon’s 1986 Kawasaki GPz900R A2. Want to see your pride and joy in our magazine, on our website and on our social media pages? If so, fill in the form here>>

In this edition of Show Us Yours, take a look at Mick’s Kawasaki Z900 Hybrid. Want to see your pride and joy in our magazine, on our website and on our social media pages, fill

In this edition of Show Us Yours, take a look at Steve Conneely’s Kawasaki H2B 750. Want to see your pride and joy in our magazine, on our website and on our social media pages,

Q: I have installed a racing exhaust on my W650, which is pretty much a set of empty pipes/silencers, but did not re-jet (I wasn’t interested in the supposedly four extra bhp it was said

Q: Hello! My son is living in the USA and he is in the middle of fixing up his 1984 ZX750 GPz  A12 American spec. He wants to know the torque setting for the bolts holding

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It drank like a fish and reared up at the drop of a hat, but Kawasaki's crazy two-stroke triple certainly got the firm noticed, writes Steve Cooper.  

It's bike show season, so we sent Martin Gelder off to bounce on the seats and twist the throttles of the latest retro twins from Kawasaki and Honda. We do this so that you don't have to...

Jonny Wellard wants to know if his Kawasaki W650 is groovy and fab, or just grubby and sad. People ask him; 'what's the point of having one of those when you could buy the real thing?' And he has an answer for them!

What makes your dream bike so special? Andrew Peek's first Zed One was too loud and too fast -- and too good to be true. Here's how he met his ultimate streetbike...

Easy to work on, good handling, but infested with an electrical gremlin. Is Mark White really talking about a Kawasaki Zed One?

It was big. Really big. Really extremely big for the 1980s. Steve The Toast debates the virtues of blunderbuss motorcycling and Kawasaki's classic six-cylinder machine...

"I thought that restoring something old may be what I needed" said Kim Henry, before starting the rebuild of his Real Classic Kawasaki...

With the parts back from the chromers, Kim Henry starts rebuilding his Real Classic Kawasaki. But will it start?

Like Honda, Kawasaki built both four-cylinder and two-cylinder 400s in the late 70s and early 1980s. Roy and Chris Workman have been running a twin as regular transport for nearly 20 years...

Who can catch a Kawasaki? Message board regular Kevin sets the bait for a Z900 but reels in a pristine KZ650B2...

If you're talking about modern classically-styled twins, then which is actually better? Brady Davis rides both regularly, and so take us down some parallel lines...

“I don’t suppose you’d be interested in looking at my rebuilding of a Kawasaki W1’s motor would you?” asked owner Dave Jupp. Of course we would; we’d leap at the chance. Steve Cooper reports...

When Kawasaki launched the GPz900R 25 years ago it turned the world of motorcycling on its head, shook it up and spun it around so many times that when everything settled back down the scene was almost unrecognisable...

The Kawasaki Ninja was introduced at Laguna Seca in the summer of 1984, and the week of World Superbike USA saw this 30th anniversary celebrated both at the track, and with an open house at Kawasaki USA in Irvine, California.

After owner Steve tracks down some serviceable second hand pistons for his Kawasaki Z400 twin - and splashes out for some new rings - Rod Gibson completes the engine rebuild...

This bike may have looked like a 1999 Kawasaki W650 when Sean Kynnersley bought it but after just five weeks on the bench he’d transformed it into this stunning hand built, road-going flat tracker...

Honda's CB750 took and shook the motorcycle market but Kawasaki's 900 raised the bar by a similar amount. More power, technology and performance than anything else. And affordable too. Rod Gibson tells the story...

Low sales volume still didn’t stop Kawasaki from selling its own version of the archetypal British bike. Anyone who knocked about on old British iron might reasonably suggest Kawasaki’s original W-series twins were little more than BSA A7/A10s rip-offs...

Late in 1978, at the Cologne Show in Germany, Kawasaki unveiled its 1300, the most powerful bike yet built and prompted a debate that led to the (short-lived) voluntary manufacturers’ agreement to limit power outputs to 125 bhp. Bob Berry rides one of the last machines off the production line...

The KE175's designers undoubtedly put a lot of thought into the design, ergonomics and practicality. When the getting down and dirty is finished the KE becomes a supremely usable road machine that’ll commute all day long...

Kawasaki’s GPz600R was the first liquid-cooled 600cc four, a breed that has defined sports machines in the 21st century. But was it launched too early with flawed technology? asks John Nutting...

Anyone who knows a little about Japanese motorcycling history will be aware that when Ernst Degner defected to the west in 1961 he brought to Suzuki the hard won knowledge of MZ’s competition department...

Kawasaki's screaming triple two-strokes found a place in most bikers' hearts. Adrenaline-fuelled power delivery and unsual handling was a recipe for many memories! Here we focus on the baby of the range - the 250...

It may have looked undramatic, but Kawasaki’s shaft-drive GT550 four proved to be a solid seller for around 20 years. John Nutting rode versions at the beginning and end of the run...

Tighten up your chin strap, slip on some cool shades and politely advise your cardio-vascular system that it’s about to get a good sized dollop of adrenaline; it’s Kawasaki 350cc street scrambler time...

Kawasaki’s GPz1100 cracked the 150mph barrier in 1983, and that alone gives the bike a place in the history books. But was the last and most potent of the big air-cooled Kawasaki fours the best of the bunch? John Nutting reports...

Kawasaki's Z650 set the standard for four-cylinder middleweights, but the company did it the hard way. Confirmed Suzuki GS750 fan Rod Ker concedes the Z was the bike to beat in the performance wars

Kawasaki's potent H2 wasn’t the first two-stroke triple but it’s now probably the most sought after. Prices have rocketed in the last few years. We ride them again to find out why...

Kawasaki's blisteringly fast two stroke 750 triple lit the tarmac when launched in 1972. Punching above its weight, it was the ultimate white knuckle ride and remains an unforgettable ride today...

Thirty years on, the 500 Kawasaki two stroke triple’s fearsome reputation for all-or-nothing engine power delivery seems over-exaggerated. However, it still provides excitement by the shed load, and at the time it must have been like being hit on the back of the head with a baseball bat. Rod Ker tries one out...

How special are works bikes? Just ‘special’ or ‘very special’? CDB asks the question and Dave King answers