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Kawasaki GPz 500S (EX 500R Ninja)
Introduced in 1987 the EX has had a long and
for Kawasaki, prosperous life. A perennial bestseller. the EX
continues to make a good account of itself in a broad range of
uses — as a commuter, a one-up sport-tourer, a sportbike even a
club roadracer. That it does so is a measure of Kawasaki's
devotion to this model. That it does so virtually without change
is a measure of how good a bike it was from the very beginning.
The EX's motor is a bil rough-running at slow
speeds, doing a fair impersonation of an air compressor. Bui it
smoothes out at speed, and — with the exception of the Bandit's
engine at high-rpm — is the quickest-revving motor here. Though
the Seca with its displacement advantage, is the most powerful
at all rpm, the EX is able to match it at the bottom end and
actually feels stronger thanks to the lorquey power pulses of
its twin-cylinder engine. The EX has lots of grunt right off
idle, and it intensifies once the tach needle swings past 6500
rpm continuing to pull hard all the way to its peak at 9000.
It's a great motor.
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