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KAWASAKI Z650RS
Overdrive
|January 2022
HAS A RETRO MAKEOVER ENHANCED THE Z650’S OVERALL DYNAMICS OR SIMPLY ITS AESTHETIC APPEAL?
Type 649cc, paralleltwin, liquid-cooled
Max power 68PS@8,000rpm
Max torque 64Nm@6,700rpm
OD Rating
Fuel tank 12 litres
Price ₹6.72 lakh (ex-showroom)
+ Looks, ergonomics, ride quality
- Can’t think of one, honestly
Ever since I got wind of the Kawasaki Z650RS gracing Indian shores last year, I couldn’t have been more thrilled. And chances are if you’re the sort who favours bike designs from simpler times in the past, you’d be equally excited as well. Man, just looking at this machine takes me back to a time when I found some posters of the Yamaha XS650S and Kawasaki B1 in one of my uncles houses. I couldn;t take my eyes of them. Both were gorgeous bikes back in the day. And now, seeing a bike that pays hommage to the bike from that old poster of the old B1 is quite trippy. This machine looks very much on point.
This story is from the January 2022 edition of Overdrive.
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