Green, 2 owners, Nice example and comes fitted with carbon fibre Scorpion exhaust. ‘Extreme’ is a word that’s bandied everywhere these days. But when it comes to motorcycling, they don’t come much more so than Kawasaki’s ZXR400. Small (so popular with the ladies), light, stumpy, extremely revvy and a fabulous handler, the little ZXR is refined essence of four-cylinder sportster with all the good that implies. It’s not big, its not particularly clever, but show it some well surfaced bends and it’ll show you how good handling can be. Dinky four-cylinder addictively shrieks and screams and comes complete with the frenzy of a 14,500rpm red line. Nothing much happens below 10,000rpm, so any progress is accompanied by a flurry of revs and a banzai-like howl from the end can. But all this fury is worth it because the little ZXR produces 62bhp, which can propel it to an almost unbelievable 140mph-plus top speed. Even though it’s ‘only a 400’ you still get an awful lot of bike for the money. The ZXR is also one of the best value, most robust of the Japanese 400’s. The North West’s finest family run motorcycle dealership, £2,995 p/x
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