The 2020 Kawasaki Z900RS and Z900RS Cafe feature absolutely no differences from the outgoing model other than the new paint schemes.
Kawasaki has unveiled the 2020 versions of the Z900RS and Z900RS Cafe. Other than new paint schemes, there’s nothing else that differentiates the new ones from the outgoing ones. The 2020 Kawasaki Z900RS gets a new, candy-green paint scheme with contrasting yellow stripes that run along the fuel tank and the little tail section. The green color gives it a proper retro feel, true to the character of the bike. It also gets a new all-black paint option.
As for the 2020 Kawasaki Z900RS Cafe, it is a cafe-racer version of the Z900RS with a distinctive headlamp cowl, blacked-out wheels and body-coloured wheel stripes. The Z900RS cafe continues with the lime-green paint shade with a white paint stripe, just as it was seen in the 2019 version. However, the top-half of the tank now comes paited in black for some added contrast. There’s also a new grey-blue paint scheme with a white stripe running from the headlamp fairing to the tail piece for the Z900RS Cafe.
The Kawasaki Z900RS and Z900RS Cafe have been inspired by the Kawasaki Z1 which was produced back in 1972. In fact, a lot of the retro design elements including the twin-pod instrument cluster, the fuel tank with its paint scheme, flat seat, and stainless-steel exhaust pipes have all come from the original Kawasaki Z1.
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Interestingly, both the Z900RS and the Z900RS Cafe are based on the Kawasaki Z900 street-naked. They also share the same engine – a 948cc, liquid-cooled, in-line four-cylinder engine – but in a slightly different state of tune. The engine in the Z900RS produces 111hp at 8,500 rpm while in the Z900, it produces 125bhp at 9,500rpm.
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Both the Kawasaki Z900RS and the Z900RS Cafe get modern day electronic goodies like traction control and two riding modes in spite of being retro-themed motorcycles. We can expect Kawasaki to launch the 2020 Z900RS and Z900RS Cafe in India by the end of 2019. Currently, the Z900RS is brought to the country via the CBU route from Japan and thus it sees an extravagant price tag of 15.7 lakh, ex-showroom, pricing it significantly above the competition.
