The Kawasaki Company was founded in 1896 by Shozo Kawasaki as a shipyard meant for building oceangoing steel ships. At the beginning they constructed marine steam turbines, locomotives, freight cars, ...

While the other Japanese makers are busy tripping all over one another in the rush to produce lighter, more powerful, LED-encrusted literbikes, Kawasaki sees fit to go on swinging away with the ZX-9R ...