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The Kawasaki Ninja H2 has no R in its name and over 100 hp less. What does it offer instead?
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The mighty, airtight aluminum airbox fights against 2.4 bar boost pressure.
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In the MotoGP-like Dog Ring gearbox, the gear wheels stay on the shaft, instead movable drive plates ensure the frictional connection.
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One eye and, despite the apparent symmetry, only one opening for air intake.
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The Kawasaki Ninja H2. sucks air only through the left nostril.
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In addition to the obvious add-on parts such as indicators, lighting and mirrors …
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… it also has a different exhaust system.
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Otherwise it differs in weight (238 instead of 216 kg), …
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… tamer camshafts and a changed mapping, …
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… and above all in price: the R version costs twice as much.
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The Kawasaki Ninja H2. starts like a powerful superbike and starts racing even more powerfully from 8500 rpm.
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In the winding curve, however, it then shows that it is dragging huge pounds around with it.
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If you close the gas while cornering, you can feel how all the weight pushes the motorcycle.
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Supported by the high braking torque of the engine, it is therefore difficult for inexperienced drivers to cope with it.
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The Kawasaki Ninja H2. and its stronger sister, the Kawasaki Ninja H2R. Actually just like the E-Class against an AMG version.
Kawasaki Ninja H2 and Kawasaki Ninja H2R
The differences in detail
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The street version Kawasaki H2 has to do without an R in its name and over 100 hp less. Does it also lose the fun? What is the difference between the Kawasaki Ninja H2 and the Kawasaki Ninja H2R?
Its street-legal sister is not that far away from the Kawasaki Ninja H2R without the R in the name. After all, the two share the heart of the H-series, the compressor, and large parts of the engine, as well as the frame and the Kayaba dampers. But first there was the H2R, with which Kawasaki wanted to show what everything is possible. Then the developers looked at what compromises for the street variant Kawasaki Ninja H2 were needed.
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Kawasaki Ninja H2 and Kawasaki Ninja H2R
The differences in detail
Kawasaki Ninja H2R will be light years quieter than the R and therefore got this huge silencer, which significantly contributes to the extra weight of 22 kilos. The more moderate elbow of the H2 also has a performance-damping effect, the pipes of which have 45 instead of the 48 cross-sectional millimeters of the Kawasaki Ninja H2R and are not made of titanium. Performance also cost the H2 the tamer camshafts, only one instead of two oxygen-hungry nostrils, a lower compression and a more peaceful mapping.
Peaceful is the right keyword
Is the Kawasaki Ninja H2 so much more peaceful than its R over-sister? Clearly: Anyone who climbs from the Kawasaki Ninja H2R to the street version has been flashed with so much bang that the H2 seems like a disdainful, fat E-Class compared to the AMG sports version. And the comparison is not so bad at all, because the H2 starts like a powerful superbike and starts racing even more powerfully from 8500 rpm, but shows in the meandering curves that it carries around huge pounds with it. If you close the gas while cornering, you can feel all the weight pushing the motorcycle. Supported by the high braking torque of the engine, it is difficult for inexperienced drivers to cope with it.
And the H2 makes one thing considerably worse than the Kawasaki Ninja H2R. She jumps on the gas like a wild foal. Maybe it wasn’t a really good idea to let us drive the H2 on the racetrack as well, because here you can let its tremendous power run free. But you also feel that the parade terrain of a superbike is too treacherous for the lush Kawasaki Ninja H2 and would prefer the ZX-10R at that moment.
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Get out on the street!
The Kawasaki Ninja H2, on the other hand, can play its punch much better than Superbikes on the autobahn and short sprints on country lane straights. Just as this power hum comes from below, the mostly pointed superbikes are clearly left behind. The boost to feel this boost pressure must be really fun on such a terrain. In addition, you sit more comfortably than on a superbike.
The so-called Dog Ring gearbox works absolutely uncritically, and the brakes are also made to keep the fat propulsion in public spaces in check. For this you have to pay 25,000 euros, which you might like to spend for the feeling and the appearance in front of a large audience. The feeling on the Kawasaki Ninja H2R is of course even better, but also twice as expensive – as with the E-Class against the AMG version.
Differences to the Kawasaki Ninja H2R
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The compressor is shared, but otherwise each one has what the other doesn’t.
The two models share the compressor with 2.4 bar boost pressure. Correspondingly, many parts of the Kawasaki Ninja H2 and Kawasaki Ninja H2R are absolutely identical. Apart from parts such as indicators, lighting, license plate holders, mirrors and other exhaust systems that are essential for approval, the H2 differs mainly in the following points:
– 147.2 KW (200 PS) at 11,000 rpm instead of 228 KW (310 PS) at 14,000 rpm
– 133 Nm at 10,500 rpm instead of 165 Nm at 12,500 rpm
– 238 kg instead of 216 kg
– Compression: 8.5: 1 instead of 8.3: 1
– tamer camshafts
– changed mapping
– 120/70 ZR 17 front and 200/55 ZR 17 rear instead of 120/60 ZR 17 front and 190/65 ZR 17 rear
– half cheaper
Technical data Kawasaki Ninja H2
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