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2013 Ninja! A detailed look

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Kawasaki Ninja 300R Middleweight monster Hello Bloggers, A warm welcome from MotoIgnition, By the title itself you would have got an idea what I've got for you all.  Rumors of an updated 250 Ninja (even the possibility of a displacement increase to 300cc) have been circulating for months, but information and photos of the 2013 model finally surfaced on Kawasaki Japan’s home-market website much to the dismay of the U.S. arm of the company, which evidently had not yet been provided with this same material. According to Kawasaki, the engine, frame and suspension are all-new.  The liquid-cooled, DOHC, eight-valve, 249cc parallel-Twin will almost certainly be fuel-injected, despite the disclaimer that EFI will not be available in all markets. (If competing against the rival Honda is the Ninja’s intent, injection would seem to be mandatory: In back-to-back testing for our comparison, the carbureted 2011 Kawasaki was not able to fuel as crisply as the injected Honda.)