The SMOOTHEST Japanese bike! Kawasaki Z900

Oh, yes, that's what I'm talking about. Oh, that's my kind of throttle. These are great if you're on a budget and you want that top reliability rating. If this is your main bike, I would recommend going Japanese just because, you know, you're going to get the lowest price and the highest reliability rating. Now I am riding the Kawasaki Z900. Today, I already rode the Z650, the 650, the ZX-6R was just way too stretched for me, so I didn't want to ride that. But the Z900, oh, yes. All right. So the Z900. I am 53.75 inches tall, 31 inch inseam crash to floor. I'm not flat foot, but I'm not totally tiptoeing either. My feet are kind of low. So I'm looking at the Kawasaki website spec comparison feature and the Z900 seat height is 31.5 inches high, where the Z650 and the Ninja 650 seat height is 31.1 inches high. So with my 31 inch inseam, I was almost flat footing. Pretty good for a 900 level sport bike. I'll definitely be doing one foot down, though, as always, for stability. Oh, I expected a lot of torque at the start because the 650 was already so torquey. So I made sure to hold in that clutch when I went off, especially close to those bikes as we were leaving. Oh, this one feels a little smoother than the 600 levels. Oh, yes. That's what I'm talking about. Oh, that's my kind of throttle. Oh, so this is a lot more sensitive. If you watched my Z650 and 650 review on the Ninjas today, on the Kawasexis, oh, I already like the 900 more. Do I need 900? Probably not. But oh, do I like it? Yes. It's just a little bit smoother and more sensitive. That all just feels a little more luxurious to me, if that makes any sense. A couple of years ago, there's no way I would have gotten on a 900 sport bike, especially because I wasn't flat footing now. Doesn't feel right unless I'm on one. Well, except for my 675 Triumph. That just has its own power. Wow, this 900 is so much smoother. I'm sorry if you can hear the wind. Just before this ride, I actually dropped my helmet from the bench and my visor isn't closing all the way shut. So there's some wind getting into this helmet right now. But anyways, I'm in sport mode. There are three modes to the 900, rain, road and sport. And I'm in sport right now. Let's hang back a little and see how it goes. Woohoo! Oh, yeah. That's the kind of throttle I like. Sorry, y'all, that demonstration was not helpful. So for comparison, the Z650 has 48.5 pounds feet of torque and the Z900 has 73 pounds feet of torque. So, I mean, that's expected. Should have more, right? Yeah, I just don't know how to say that. I literally never looked at torque specs before. Where you seen that at? This is the Kawasaki website on the specs. Oh, down here. Yeah. Yeah, 73 foot pounds. Well, then why would they put foot before pounds? Why do they put pounds? That's how you say it, I don't know, but that's how you say it. OK. 32 pounds feet of torque and 33 horsepower and it has 32 pounds feet of torque. Pounds feet of torque. Instant gratification. Now, I don't think that's a good policy for life, but I do think it's a great policy for bikes, throttle responses. Oh, boy. This is the smoothest bike I've ridden all day besides my bike. But wow, I'm impressed. By the way, I have to say this because there's always somebody in the comment section saying that my review videos are ads or sponsored. They're not. I'm I'm literally not getting anything. I except for you watching my videos. I showed up just like anybody else had to submit my license, enter a time slot, wait in line just like everybody else. Asked for permission if I could record today. Now, let's see how the wind feels on this one once we get a little faster. Now, it looks like this bike also has the sight glass for the oil, which is really nice. And I literally can't even remember right now if this one has fairings or not. It does not have fairings. Thank you. What would I do without you? Not have all these spec details on first ride, because who the hell can remember all this? If you've already watched my other Kawasaki videos, I might be a little repetitive, but these bikes all really have similar things like the dash with the black background and your numbers real large. I love that. Makes it really easy to see. Now going highway speeds. The wind deflection on these bikes is just excellent. Like I barely feel it on my chest. If you hear a lot of it right now, I'm sorry. My visor is just not closing all the way right now. I'm going to have to see about getting a new helmet after today. But again, on these Kawasaki's, the mirrors are not adjustable. Actually, yes, they are. You just have to push harder than that. These are great if you're on a budget and you want that top reliability rating. So if you are if this is your main bike, I would recommend going Japanese just because, you know, you're going to get the lowest price and the highest reliability rating. Now, that being said, of course, motorcycles isn't always a logical decision. My bike, I got the Triumph Street Triple R because it was it's the smoothest bike I've ever ridden. And I just thought that was that was a whole lot of feeling for it. I don't even use all the power I have on my Triumph, but I love that bike and I have it. And I felt the same way about the Indian FTR 1200 S. Oh, my gosh, I love that bike, even though I'd never use all that power. I it was so much fun and surprisingly easy to handle for someone my size and upper body strength. But if you're contemplating between the 650 and the 900 and you're not too worried about insurance being a little higher, as it probably will be between that CC jump and you're not worried about your discipline level, you think you can, you know, you can be good on the road when you need to be. I would go with the 900. I mean, this one is much smoother and the throttle is just so much more sensitive. I love that. I love a sensitive throttle. It's hard for me to ride cruisers now that I'm so used to sport bike for that very reason, because they have just a humble they've got a humble throttle. She also means naked bikes when she says that. I just get underwhelmed without that sensitive throttle. Oh, but this throttle. Let me hang back a little bit and show you. Just for a little bit. There's not a lot of room here on a group ride. Man, if I lived out here, I would take this bike out every night. That'd be like the unwinding from work evening. The nice thing about a fairly upright sport bike is it's so versatile. You could if you want to commute with this, if you want to if you want it to be your in town bike, it's comfortable enough for that. I mean, the seat is hard, so you're probably not going to love it on a two hour highway ride, but the wind deflection is so good, at least in that aspect, you'll be OK. And if you do ever want to try track days, I mean, you can definitely do that with this. And oh, my gosh, I bet it's amazing in mountain curves. Let's feel that suspension. Bouncy. I like that. So by bouncy, that means the wheel travel is on the Z900 about 4.7 inches in the front and five and a half inches in the back. That's a lot. Is that usual? It's nice not being in the back during those curves. The last ride I was. And man, everyone was so slow during the curves. It was killing me. OK, of the three bikes I rode today. This is my favorite. The Z900. I'll be test riding a lot of bikes this year. I want to focus around the six to seven hundred CC range just because that's what I have. And that's what you all voted you want to see the most. But I will be doing just about anything I really want. That I can get my hands on. I have had companies and people offer me a bike. And if I don't think I'm going to like it or if or if I can handle it, I'll say no. If I had all the time in the world. Sure, I'd ride all the bikes in the world, but I don't. So I got to be selective. So for the most part, my focus will be sport bikes and naked bikes. And I hope the perspective of someone who is fairly short for a rider and experience level as an everyday kind of rider, not necessarily a professional racer or iron butt winner rider, and also someone who has the upper body strength of a weakling girl. We're going to need to work on the self-deprecation. I mean, that just means that if I can handle a bike, you can too.