Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

So Superbike have a snippet of their Review from their next issue.Can't help thinking he's correct about Kawasaki keeping the 636cc format for the better power delivery,sounds like all the power is above 10k rpm in the new version which isn't fantastic for the road.

http://www.superbike.co.uk/news/New_200 ... 03436.html

Here's another review that was posted a few days ago...
http://www.biketestusa.com/Article_Page ... cleID=4090

Personally, I think it's great that this class of bike seems to be becoming more and more track focussed. Yamaha seem to have started a trend.

its so damn sexy .. i want one!

looks sexy and handles well. they should have kept the 636....

This is why I was so keen to get the 06 636 rather than wait for the 07 model...

Colette wrote:This is why I was so keen to get the 06 636 rather than wait for the 07 model...

Good move....

I dunno... i would maybe fore-go the extra 37cc's for the 07 model...

Whitey wrote:Personally, I think it's great that this class of bike seems to be becoming more and more track focussed.

Yes, because we all spend *so* much time on racetracks and need to spend 15 grand on a new bike that doesn't get out of bed until it revs into the top third of its rev range to force us to ride properly... I didn't realise RGV nostalgia was so strong and so widespread...

...if they're going to keep making 600's so wheezy, the least we can demand is that they make 750 versions of them which sacrifice 1000rpm or rev range for 4000rpm of usable midrange.

Yes a 750 would be nice kawasakis lineup is a little limited maybe even a 800 version.

Barrabob wrote:....maybe even a 800 version.

bring it on - I reckon within 2 years there will be a GP-replica of the new 800cc bike...........some photoshopped pictures of this have already been doing the rounds.........

what is there now in the range between a screaming top-end 600 and a similiar 1000 ??

Umm..the Zed 750. Yeah but you're right there is a sportsbike "gap" that needs to be filled,Suzuki have never wavered from the 750 and still have strong sales.

Mabye that's why they dropped the 636. They are going to do a Suzuki and develop a 799 in parallel with the 599.

Maybe its just me; but I've been having blue-sky thoughts about shoehorning a Z750 mill into a ZXR636 frame.

falx wrote:Maybe its just me; but I've been having blue-sky thoughts about shoehorning a Z750 mill into a ZXR636 frame.

Wouldn't work without some major KY action, and if you were going to all the trouble, you might as well slot in a Z1000 motor; the two are externally the same... the Thou is a bored out ZX-9R motor with a sidedraught head, the Z750 is a sleeved-down ZX-9R motor with the same sidedraught head.

If you were feeling like a complete MacGyver, it might be an idea to look into how difficult and how costly a one-off machined crank and cylinder block would set you back.

The ZX636 has bore and stroke dimensions of 68x43.8mm. Putting a bit of pen to paper, you can figure out that every additional mm of stroke yields an additional 14.527cc of capacity. 8mm of extra stroke corresponds to a capacity increase of 116.214cc, for a total of 752cc.

So, find a machine shop with the capability to mill you an 8mm-taller replica of the 636 cylinder block, and a replica of the 636 crank with 4mm extra throw, which *should* still fit inside the 636 cases, and you have a 750 in a 600 chassis, and you can even recycle the 636 rods and pistons... you'd probably want to drop the revlimit by about 1,000rpm, though, and nick the twin-injector setup off the 6RR.

Probably cheaper to buy a ZX8R....