A few years ago, many of us wondered when some of the trick-looking naked bikes sold in Europe might make their way to the U.S. market. I suppose we could say that Suzuki's Bandit 1200 really got the U.S. motorcycle consumer salivating for nakeds in the late 1990s. Patience has rewarded us with a number of models to choose from these days, including Kawasaki's Z750S.
Although Kawasaki calls the 2005 Z750S new, a version of this machine has been available in Europe, but it is new to the U.S. market this year. The 2005 model features some changes over last year's Euro model, particularly, with regard to wind protection.
The Z750S creates a niche between the 600/650 category of nakeds populated by Suzuki's SV, Honda's 599 and others, on the one hand, and the open-class nakeds such as Honda's 919 and Yamaha's FZ1 on the other. Based to some extent on it's bigger brother the Z1000, the Z750S hopes to find that sweet spot where some of the engine performance of the larger machines is combined with a price comparable to some of the smaller machines.
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