KAWASAKI ZX-10RR
Fast Bikes|February 2018

THIS MONTH I HAVE MOSTLY BEEN… “Spittingmydummy…”

KAWASAKI ZX-10RR

Well, that’s that then. Mr bottom half to reach the headers. It’s Kawasaki has called to say a tight old squeeze between the rad he wants the big RR back and the engine block, but there’s just and who am I to argue with such enough room to undo the stock clamps. authority. Being a part-timer at FB has I’m a lazy bastard, so I was never going meant that I’ve not only lost out on to loosen the rad’s top mounts, time to modify the ZX-10RR but, more although I highly recommend doing importantly, we haven't clocked up the so in the future. miles. That said, the weather hasn't As you’d expect from the Gucci of really been conducive to riding 200bhp exhausts, the Akrapovic is a joy to fit superbikes and I’ll gladly swap oily and millimetre-perfect in every area, hands in a warm workshop for broken and I could gaze at the welds all day. bones in a cold, overcrowded hospital. I could also gaze at the dyno graph all

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