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Kawasaki motorcycles are designed and manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries based in Japan, USA, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines.

It all started with the aircraft division of Kawasaki where they first designed a motorcycle upon the beginning of their partnership with Meguro, a failing motorcycle manufacturer at that time. They started a new division and called it Kawasaki Motor Sales.

In 1962, engineers from the Kawasaki plant started developing engines for small cars until a handful of them transferred to the Meguro plant and started working on the Meguro SG and K1. The new division used a logo of a flag with a wing from 1962 to 1967.

Kawasaki motorcycles are divided into several groups including Cruiser, Dual Purpose, Off-Road, Street Bikes, and police cars. Police motorcycles have four different series including the KZ1000P Police which is the most common among all and is known as KZP in some countries.

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Kawasaki’s Street Bikes have three versions including the Sport bikes, Sport-Touring, and Scooters. Their Sport bikes only have one name on all units and is called the Ninja. The Ninja series are sport bikes normally having parallel-twin engines and with engine power ranging from 200-cc to a whopping 500-cc.

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The Ninja ZX-10R is one of their sport bikes that are still in the market today. It was released in 2004 and won various awards including the Best Superbike at the international Masterbike competition and was featured at the Cycle World magazine.

Kawasaki also has several road racing motorcycles including the Ninja ZX-RR. This beast joined the MotoGP world championship and was debuted in 2002 by riders Akira Yanagawa and Andrew Pitt.