See, my concern with clip-ons and sport stances is that my hands easily get numb when my wrists are contorted at weird angles or that there’s a lot of weight put forward. The accent on the RS Café are almost all blacked out safe for the brake and levers hardware, which creates an elegant, streamlined silhouette. They converge under the belly and end on a brushed muffler. The four overlapping exhaust pipes running down the front of the engine don’t have quite the same presence as, say, Honda’s cascading pipes, but do nicely frame the engine. I was asked several times by strangers on the street what “year it is” and got a few raised eyebrows when I answered that it’s a 2020 model. Kawasaki's neo-retro design is so efficient that, to the untrained eye, the RS Café looks like it time traveled directly from the 80s. The old-school look is completed with a modernized tuck-and-roll saddle and, instead of the 82’s boxy gas tank, the modern RS rocks a tear-drop tank instead, borrowed from the earlier Zs. The 2020 livery is an elegant evolution with a two-tone green and black tank with a subtle golden pinstripe. When it was first introduced, RS Café's design and livery-everything from the cowl to the color scheme to the ducktail rear fender-were inspired by the 1982-1983 Kawasaki KZ1000R. So, while there’s nothing new on the RS table this year, let me sing the praises of a truly awesome bike. What’s not to like about that? Isn’t this pretty much the best of both worlds?įor 2020, the Z900 RS Café remains unchanged but I decided to review it anyway because it features on my "treat" list-a list of bikes I review for the simple pleasure of getting my hands on them. The models were an homage to the original Z with their vintage aesthetic built on the Z900’s modern underpinnings. There's a saying, however, that tells us never to forget where we come from. Kawasaki took it to heart when it introduced its duo of vintage-inspired Zs to the family in 2017: the Z900 RS and RS Café.
#Z900 ECU FLASH SERIES#
The Z series as we know it today started with the 30-year-anniversary Z1000 introduced in 2003, a naked sportbike bike based on the ZX-9R.
The Z nomenclature has since been an important part of Kawasaki’s lineup, finding various and sometimes creative applications along the way. 5 Things You Should Know About The 2020 Kawasaki Z900
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