Road test: Kawasaki ZX-10R

With 184 ram-air assisted horsepower available at the crank, the same treatment was necessary with the throttle. Learning a new track and a new [motorcycle] always takes a little time, so it took till my third session to start getting things figured out. To avoid any unnecessary inputs to the throttle or the bars in the turns, I hooked my outside leg up under the lip in the gas tank and used my lower body to control the [motorcycle]. This was the confidence booster I was looking for, as my initial laps were spent feeling very ham-fisted with the throttle. With the huge amount of power available, each fraction of a turn puts out a lot of horses, and hard over in a turn is not the place to accidentally feed in any unwanted throttle.