Colour me greener
It’s minor-update time in Kawasaki land as they bring their most popular models into the next decade. Starting with their most evergreen model (see what we did there?) the Ninja 1000SX (previously the Z1000SX) sport tourer gets a few new colours. Rather outrageously named things like Metallic Moondust Grey or Emerald Blazed Green, the 1000SX is basically black with either grey, green or red accents. There are three packs: Performance, which comes with an Akrapovic pipe and frame sliders; Tourer, which comes with pannier and a sat-nav mount, or; Performance Tourer, which comes with the lot. No prices yet but it’s in dealers in December. Next up comes the not-quite-a-litre naked Z900, which again has some new paint that’s aimed at ‘fans of mean and moody’, apparently. Z900: the bike of surly teenagers. Who knew? Anyway next year you have the choice of black with a green frame, black with a red frame or white with a green frame. Just like the Ninja 1000SX, there are some extras and a ‘Performance’ edition with some fancy bits including an Akra. Again no prices yet, but in dealers by December.
Last up is the Vulcan S – the firm’s middleweight cruiser that’s a great fit for new riders. Strangely there’s been no Euro5 announcement on the Vulcan (the other two are good to go as they were new last year), so unless it gets an update it will disappear in the near future. Again three colours (black, grey and white) but otherwise unchanged. Like the 1000SX there are ‘Performance’ and ‘Tourer’ packs available with similar kit, although there’s no mention of the previous ‘Café’ edition, so we’re assuming that’s gone for 2021. And you guessed it – no prices yet, but in dealers by December.