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Originally Posted by NinjaBraap
It's clearly a move by Kawasaki to compete in racing against the R3 and RC390, both of which tend to dominate the Ultralight classes. Honestly it's pretty ****** because they literally had a 500 up until 2009, and now they're pretty much bringing back the same thing just fuel injected. They need to make up their mind, and actually come up with something new for the smaller displacement side. Kawasaki tends to focus on the large side and come out with things like the Ninja H2 and H2R, but leave anything smaller than the ZX10R as an afterthought.
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Kawasaki is a company driven by profit as is Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Harley, Ducati and most other bike manufactures. They build what they think will sell. For a long time smaller displacement bikes weren't selling well in the US so they didn't put a lot of effort into them. Now all bike sales are down and making fun smaller displacement bikes is one strategy to get new riders. I think the popularity of the Grom a few years ago when it came out took the industry by surprise. But now smaller bike are the hot thing.