A vast majority of Ninja 636 owners will seldom visit a track with their baby, so while it could be amazing there, I’m not focusing on that aspect of the bike in this review. Sure, 37cc may not seem like much, but paired with that transmission, it’s the extra bit of torque that’ll claw away the milliseconds from the competition. While most other 600s make do with 599cc, the ZX-6R has 636. On canyon twisties, I found myself smiling every time I throttled down pulling out of a corner, even in those moments I was in a gear too high, the ZX-6R delivers enough oomph to keep the grins coming. Below 7,000 RPM this middle child pulls well thanks to revised gearing, and it only gets better as the revs climb. It’s just too bad the streets north of Sin City have speed limits. The higher your RPMs, the sweeter the clutchless upshifts. I don’t really care, because on the street, it works wonderfully for aggressive sprints. Though in practice there’s a slight, but notable delay between the computer cutting power, changing gear, then laying it back on. This one works on upshifts and promises to shave those valuable milliseconds off laps at the track. Overzealous naming conventions aside, a standard quick shifter on a sub $10k bike is pretty rad. Or as Kawi calls it the Kawasaki Quick Shifter. Okay, so that’s two, but did you come here to spot check my counting or do you want to know about the new Ninja? Let’s start with my favourite bits. ![]() They have our attention, so what’s the new Ninja 636 actually like to ride? Kawasaki bucks that trend for their new Ninja ZX-6R however and introduces the 2019 model at a starting price of $9,999 a full $1,700 less than the outgoing 2018 models. This focus on lighter, faster machines has resulted in slowly ballooning prices for the 600cc class, which has only made the case for a new one ever harder when litre bikes are priced not too far off. ![]() ![]() 2018 Ducati Multistrada 950 – The Goldilocks Bike
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