Kawasaki looked to Akira Yanagawa, their superbike rider for development of the all-new Ninja ZX-10R. Yanagawa said, “yes,” Kawasaki took the part to pre-production testing, tweaked it and gave it back to Yanagawa for more destruction testing in WSB. The result is nothing less than staggering. This year’s ZX-10R boasts a new swingarm that uses pressed instead of cast beams, a fully-adjustable 43mm inverted fork, new gear ratios for 1st, 4th and 5th gears along with an extra tooth on the rear sprocket to take advantage of huge amounts of torque available and a completely new engine tuned for even greater high-rpm performance. Even the wheels are brand new on this year’s model – lighter, stiffer, squeeze cast wheels. I want one already. Shark-like styling complete what promises to be Kawasaki’s best liter bike ever.