moved up to a ninja 300 from a cbr 125, regretting it --- why is bigger better?
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Ok maybe hate was strong. I was not very fond of it. Better? If I was new today I'd love to have learned on a ninja 300 over the miniceptor. I had mine in the mid 90s. I think as much as I'm not the biggest kawi fan anymore that for the first time a company got it right with a starter bike. The 300 is appealing in many ways. I'd even have one now to commute on honestly.
Disagree but for the bike in question the 300 definitely looks better.
I was being facetious. The Ninja does look a million times better.
I saw a green one the other day that had a matching green pipe that sounded really good. I don't know anything about aftermarket pipes so I have no idea what it was, would like to know though. It had quite a bit of bass and it almost completely disguised the farty twin's sound.
I saw a green one the other day that had a matching green pipe that sounded really good. I don't know anything about aftermarket pipes so I have no idea what it was, would like to know though. It had quite a bit of bass and it almost completely disguised the farty twin's sound.
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I don't think it's fair to pit the VF500F against the 300 looks wise. I mean... I like 80's stuff, and I love the blue/white/red/gold Honda racing colours, so I actually can honestly say I loved the way my VF500F looked. Most of them these days have had a rattle can paint job for some reason and look like crap. (I also loved crap like the square headlight on the Yamaha Radian... but not on the Honda Magnas)
THAT SAID!!! The Ninja 300 does have a lot of stuff going for it, but possibly the #1 reason that Kawi has walked away with the small bike segment is the aggressive styling of the 250/300. When they were first rolling around (and before people started putting the dead giveaway slip-ons on them) even I had to squint to tell them apart from a ZX-6/10 at thirty paces. And everything that looked good about the 250 looks better on the 300 IMHO.
THAT SAID!!! The Ninja 300 does have a lot of stuff going for it, but possibly the #1 reason that Kawi has walked away with the small bike segment is the aggressive styling of the 250/300. When they were first rolling around (and before people started putting the dead giveaway slip-ons on them) even I had to squint to tell them apart from a ZX-6/10 at thirty paces. And everything that looked good about the 250 looks better on the 300 IMHO.
Yoshimura R77.
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I think most people cannot ignore the >50% power difference between a Ninja 300 and a CBR250, and even the CBR/CBF300 still falls short. Honda went cheaper, Kawa went better, the next move is by Yamaha on the 320 twin...meanwhile..Kawasaki is developing a 250 FOUR in Malaysia (!).
The CBR 250 in Repsol is a pretty bike.
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