The ZXR750 was fitted with a 4.76 Gallon (18.00 Liters) fuel tank. Stopping was achieved via dual disc in the front and a single disc in the rear. It came with a 120/70-17 front tire and a 180/55-17 rear tire. Fuel was supplied via a double overhead cams/twin cam (dohc).
A 71.0mm bore x 47.3mm stroke result in a displacement of just 749.0 cubic centimeters. The engine was a liquid cooled in-line four, four-stroke. It could reach a top speed of 144 mph (231 km/h). The Kawasaki ZXR750 was a in-line four, four-stroke Road motorcycle produced by Kawasaki between 19. On the straight at the Bol d'Or, I just sat back and laughed because I was passing everyone.Ĥ51.95 pounds (205.0 Kg) ( dry), 231.0 kg ( wet) The chassis worked well and I had no problem with it apart from it was a bit of a lump to throw around. I had a real job hanging off the side of it because I wasn't big like my team-mate Terry Rymer.
Kawasaki's efforts were finally rewarded when Scott Russell achieved success at Daytona and won the now prestigious WSN championship in 1993.Ĭarl Fogarty said: It was a full-blown F1 thing and has to be the fastest bike I've ever ridden in my life. The next version, in 1993, the ZXR750R M1, had an adjustable swingarm pivot point and ram-air induction. But as a road bike it was affordable and desirable despite a dry weight of 190kg. Its specification, while impressive for a ZXR, was too little, too late considering Honda and Yamaha has similar spec machinery two years previous. In 1991, Kawasaki finally entered the homologation club with the ZXR750R K1, based on the road-going ZXR750J. In the UK, family favourite John Reynolds won the British 750cc Supercup, scoring several fastest laps en route to the title. Kawasaki won the championship four years in a row Carl Fogarty writing another race title on his CV when he helped clinch the 1992 championship. It was on the World Endurance stage where the ZXR and ZXR-7RR derivative proved its worth. ZXR success was limited on short tracks, with the most memorable being Aussie Rob Phillis showing his future WSB potential when he won the 1989 Australian 1000cc title on a ZXR. But while Kawasaki dealers worldwide reaped the rewards of such a fantastic looking bike in sales and profits in 1992, the race ZXRs of Kawasaki France proved to be heavy and slow compared with the competition at the opening round of the 1989 WSB season. The road version of the ZXR-7 eventually showed up in late 1988 as the ZXR750H1, complete with aluminum frame, race replica bodywork and, of course, the fantastic Green Meanie paint scheme. This bike was the ZXR-7 and showed great promise when it took third place at Suzuka 8-Hour.
Even so, French racer Adrien Morillas managed to fashion a win on the GPX at the Hungaroring.īehind the scenes, and as early as 1987, Kawasaki had already slotted a tuned-to-the-nuts GPX engine into a dual-beam alloy frame. At the time its only competitive street-based bike eligible for WSB was the steel-framed GPX750. Like ], Kawasaki was slow off the 1988 WSB starting blocks.
The ZXR was a committed machine with a stretched-out racer-esque riding position, a peaky and typically Kawasaki harsh motor, and the infamous hard rear shock. While the Honda RC30 gave more affluent riders of the late 80's a flavour of what a race bike felt like on the road (yet at real race bike prices), the Kawasaki ZXR750 H1 gave those on a more modest budget the same thing.īased on the factory ZXR07 endurance racing prototypes ,the ZXR had an updated version of the GPX705's liquid-cooled four, in an alloy beam frame with up-to-date chassis parts. Good for: Hard-as-nails racing image, meaty looks, savage performanceīad for: Comfy riding over distance, supple suspension.
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