Sweet Kawi Flattracker

I found this pic on the caferacer.net forum.
The engine appears to be the new Ninja 650 single.
Whatever it is, it is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!:woohoo:

Neat bike without a doubt, but the only 650 Ninja I know of is a twin.

Maybe the 650 Enduro??




Nope, not a 650, it's a KLX450R dirt bike motor (my best guess anyway).

Kaw makes a 650 dual sport single so maybe that is the engine. For sure not a Ninja 650

ninja 650 flattracker

531blackbanshee wrote:

ninja 650 flattracker

650 single Ninja?
You know something we don't?

You saying it's not the KLX450 motor as pictured below?

no it uses the new twin 650(2 cyl.)i would put the pic up but can't seem to get it sized right.here is the link tho. thekneeslider.com/archives/2007/11/30/ka...-ninja-flat-tracker/

Here is the 650 Ninja flat track bike, obvious differences.
Note the "two" exhaust pipes.




And here's #42 at Daytona March 6 2008




Anyone know Bryan Smith of Flushing MI?
He's the one riding it.
If that is a 650 twin then he would be racing against the Harley XR750's, yet there's not a Harley in the Main Event, Kawasaki, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, and one Rotax.

He came in third, and it's the AMA Grand Nationals Singles Championship, so it positively can't be a 650 twin.

www.amaflattrack.com/article.php?sc=1074...PURfh3UHte5zQNlQbFGh


And here he is on his other race bike, a Harley XR750.




By the way, that's AMA National Number 42, and he's a top ranked rider on both the Kawasaki 450 and the Harley XR750, won Daytona and (I think) Springfield last year.

I quit

Motor in 1st pic is a KX450F MX motor , similar to KLX450 as suggested above , but with out Electric start

mjg15 wrote:

Motor in 1st pic is a KX450F MX motor , similar to KLX450 as suggested above , but with out Electric start

Could be either one, might have removed the electric start off the KLX.

I e-mailed Bryan Smith and asked, but he hasn't replied yet.

I'd have to say it's the 450 motor. I lightened the pic.

Locozuna wrote:

I'd have to say it's the 450 motor. I lightened the pic.

There's no doubt about that (see my post further up), the question was whether it started off as a KX450 or KLX450 motor (not that it really makes any difference), and I'm waiting on a reply from Bryan Smith (AMA #42) to answer that question.
The XR750 is not his, it's owned by a Harley dealer, but the 450 may be his.