Personal Review : Kawasaki ZX 636 R 2016

The 2016 Kawasaki ZX-6R (636) it's a great sport bike. I mean you obviously can’t go out riding long on them, and in the city the roads are too crammed for the ZXR to unleash their full potential. So we took it out to remoted area in samalaju industrial zone.

The Kawasaki ZX-6R 2016 (ZX 636 R)  

The seat and the rear frame offer good contact with the bike for enhanced rider feedback. Personally I feels bit annoying while riding normal (I'm 180 cm tall) and I'm used with touring seating position. But after awhile with the 6R my body start to get used with the racing style of position, it is design that way. The bike looked small when I'm on it. 

The suspension however better than what you get on most other sports bikes. Whenever I rode over some obstacle, I realized the impact wasn’t nearly as severe as I thought it would be, with a selectable full and low engine power modes, three-mode of traction control and the Intelligent ABS.   

I got a taste of the 6R enormous power as I started on the fast bending lane. The 6R gave out a loud roar before plunging ahead into the zone. At the weight around 192 kg it's so easy to corner and doing a perfect sharp u-turn.

With the assist and slipper functions, it offer light clutch pull to minimise wheel chatter caused by aggressive downshifting. I finally able to unleash the power at 237KM/h (which can go more) on the empty straight stretch in samalaju road, even in sixth gear, and feels powerful through the entire rpm range. It does vibrate a bit above the 8000 rpm, but pulls really strong up into the peak. Hitting 0 to 100kph in just 3 seconds, on the 3km stretch, the 6R could hit its top speed of 270kph, and I was actually able to keep up at that speed, but my suits are not suitable for it.

The Green and black colour is very striking! 

Everything is great about this bike, but with 17 litre fuel tank, it doesn't come with fuel indicator which I have to calculate/estimate or open the tank to see the gas, but it worked out.

Engine type -

Liquid-cooled, 4-stroke In-Line Four, DOHC, 16 valves

Front Tyre -

120/70ZR17M/C (58W)

Rear Tyre -

180/55ZR17M/C (73W)

101 kW {137 PS} / 13,500 rpm

Transmission -

6-speed, return, cassette

Final Drive –

Sealed chain

Clutch –

Wet multi-disc, manual

Front Brakes –

Dual radial-mount, monobloc, opposed 4-piston, Nissin.

Rear Brakes –

Single 220 mm (x t5 mm) petal disc. Caliper: Single-bore pin-slide, aluminium piston, Nissin.

Front Suspension –

41 mm inverted fork with top-out springs. Compression damping: Stepless. Rebound damping: Stepless. Spring preload: Fully adjustable.

Rear Suspension

Bottom-Link Uni-Trak with gas-charged shock. Compression damping: Stepless. Rebound damping: 25-way. Spring preload: Fully adjustable.

Fuel capacity –

17 litres

Dry Wet –

192 kg /194 kg (ABS)

Credit Bike and Photos : Skipper Noor Iskandar (the.lefthanded)