![]() ![]() The chassis was a bit more compact and nimble as well, but it's fair to say that although the suspension was better on paper than the old bike's, the ride quality wasn't noticeably better. For starters it was a whopping 30kg lighter, and with a claimed 143bhp from a completely revised engine (up from a claimed 125bhp for the original), it had plenty of road-going stomp. Shame really, as it was a big step on the from the original B model. Trouble was, by the time that new C model arrived in 1998, it was upstaged by Yamaha's awesome YZF-R1. The original ZX-9R of 1994 was a bit of a stop-gap model, designed to hold Honda's all-conquering Fireblade at bay for a few years while Kawasaki cooked up a whole new model.
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