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you're a fucking idiotOk well about one year ago i got on a ninja 250 and the only other bike i had been in was my Honda 250 dirtbike with a good amount of mods and well I thought the ninja was slow as shit. Seriously it was pretty much near impossible to even do a wheelie! But i guess if you want it so you can feel the wind in your face or whatever then its great for you but if you plan on even kinda racing it well you will be lucky do beat a mildy modded single cam Vtec!
once again, you're just wrongdude a 250 is on the line between moped and motorcycle. come on and the ferrari thing dude? WTF? Anything slower than a ferrari is not worth my time? um ok? Still the bike is SLOW! unless your definition of fast is like a 17 or 18 in the quarter! But you enjoy your bike and dont be sad when a 73 year old lady out performs you in her cadillac deville!
Kawasaki Ninja 250R
-LIGHT, the bike weighs 315lbs.
-Hp is rated at 35 per Kawasaki but I've seen the dyno charts and it's putting closer to 29hp to the wheel. Sounds like a little... but the little bugger runs in the mid 14s stock. Most new cars at $25,000 don't run that... Like I said no bike is a slow bike
-Room for modification, the bike is easily modified... K&N filters and pod filter support, numerous jet setups, muzzy makes a titanium and carbon fiber exhaust system that is WONDERFUL on these bikes and they are very easy to regear, you can easily put them in the mid 30hp range and have the bike at the low to mid 13s with mods... but the 500 obviously with mods is faster..
-FLICKABLE - This bike has a good lean on it, you lean a bit forward but the bike is well setup on the wheel base, this bike will lean until you scrape the pegs back and until you actually hit the side of the exhaust, people seem to think that because it's a 250 it won't lean... but this bike will beat a lot of bigger bikes in the corners despite it being "underpowered" compared to the big bikes. Trust me, once you hit the corners with this bike, you hit the 7000-9000rpm range, it comes ALIVE, wonderful wonderful bike.
-CHEAP on insurance, I'm 20, perfect record and managed this bike at $53 FULLY INSURED per month.
oh my bad. i thought the 2001 was a 250. well good luck either way.Yeah, I'm trying to get "financing" for the 500. Which basically means borrowing money to make up the rest. The 250 was great because they'll finance.
The 500 may or may not happen. if I can get him down to $2500, I'll just wear my leathers until I can afford more.
But I HATE owing my friends money. I would rather avoid it.