Kawasaki has announced an updated Z900 for 2025, introducing new electronics and updated styling, but keeping the existing 948cc engine.
The new Z900 retains what Kawasaki calls its Sugomi design language, and the stance of a sprinter waiting for the starting gun to fire. The radiator cap is more compact and separated from the tank cap, now featuring less plastic in favor of brushed aluminum with an engraved Z logo.
The new headlight is more compact than the previous design and is set low to create a line with the top of the fuel tank. The light has a triple LED design with two upper lights that serve as low beams and one lower high beam.
The rear lighting is also LED, using new technology to guide the light. Lighting emanates from LEDs at both ends and is reflected along the curved tube structure to form a uniformly illuminated rear light.
The engine remains a 948cc inline-four, but gets new cam profiles to improve fuel economy and low-end torque delivery. A maximum power of 122 hp at 9,500 rpm and 98 Nm of torque at 7,700 rpm is stated.
The more important change is the adoption of a new electronic throttle and engine control unit (ECU) tuning to produce linear acceleration and better fuel economy. Kawasaki claims that fuel economy is reduced by 16% and emissions by 11.3%.
The electronics package is supported by a new inertial measurement unit (IMU). which unlocks traction control and ABS. The new Z900 offers three preset driving modes, Sport, Road and Rain, plus a fourth custom mode, each offering a combination of power delivery, traction control and ABS intervention. The Z900 also gets a new quickshifter and electronic cruise control.
A new 5-inch TFT color screen helps to control the new technology. The screen offers two display modes, one with a strip-style tachometer and the other with a hexagonal tachograph.
The screen can also display turn-by-turn navigation via the Rideology app. The app can also accept voice commands to change settings, such as changing driving modes, without having to take your hands off the controls.
The lightweight steel trellis frame from the Z900 returns, but with a new insert behind the head tube to improve stiffness, and a revised left pivot plate to house the quickshifter. The rear subframe also has flatter rails, which help support the seat, despite the new, thicker cushion.
The base model Z900 is equipped with a 41mm inverted fork with adjustable rebound damping and spring preload. The rear uses an adjustable rebound and preload shock that connects to the rear fork via a horizontal rear link system. For a bit more performance, the Z900 SE adds an Ohlins S46 rear shock with remote preload adjustment.
The SE model also features high-quality brakes, with twin Brembo M4.32 radial monobloc calipers and 300mm discs, plus Nissin radial master cylinders and stainless steel brakes. The regular Z900 uses Nissin four-piston radial calipers on the front wheel. Both versions have a single-piston rear caliper and a 250 mm disc on the rear wheel. Dunlop supplies its Sportmax K5A tires.
Available colors for the base version are Metallic Spark Black/Metallic Carbon Black/Ebony, Galaxy Silver/Phantom Blue/Phantom Blue Black. The Z900 SE ABS comes in Metallic Matte Graphite Gray/Ebony/Metallic Graphite Gray colors.
Source: www.moto-berza.com
