Kawasaki is all set to launch its mental quarter-litre, 4-cylinder track tamer, the Ninja ZX-25R, on April 4 at the Kawasaki Bike Week in Indonesia. The brand has released a teaser video confirming the launch date. It will be available in two variants. 

Interestingly, the 2020 Kawasaki Ninja 250 comes with the parallel-twin engine that starts from IDR 64.1 million. Now that’s really surprising considering the upcoming ZX-25R is a lot more sophisticated than the Ninja 250. The former gets a much more performance-oriented motor with two extra cylinders and premium underpinnings. Kawasaki has not revealed the full technical specifications of the motorcycle.

Pictures of the 25R’s instrument cluster show a stratospheric 17,000rpm redline. Implementing an inline-four configuration at this displacement range means tiny cylinder bores, pistons, con rods and so on, which means very low rotational inertia. Each piston’s stroke length will also be similarly miniscule, and these factors combine together to make this astronomical redline possible.

One of the reasons why Kawasaki may price the bike so aggressively in Indonesia is because the taxation slab for quarter-litre motorcycles is a lot lesser than bigger bikes in the country. This is why Kawasaki does not offer the Ninja 300 or even the Ninja 400/650 in the Indonesian market.

Kawasaki is unlikely to launch the motorcycle in Nepal as it will turn out to be too expensive because of its inherent sophistication. Even if Kawasaki launched the bike, it will likely cost around the same ballpark as the Ninja 400’s price.