This blog post is entirely my opinion. With the newly released 2024 zx-6r Kawasaki decided to entirely switch up the looks of their famous inline 4 600 super sport class bike.

Instead of their “to me” shark looking front they instead opted to make the zx-6r look like its bigger brother the zx-10r. As much as I like the looks of the zx-10r I almost liked how the zx-6r and the zx-10r looked different but at the same time I also think it’s quite cool that they look quite similar now with just slightly different looking gas tanks.

What I’m trying to say is that I’m conflicted on the style change. I don’t believe the bike looks as sleek anymore but I do like how the front offers more of a “cockpit” sort of vibe just like the zx-10r. I also like how the bike in general looks a lot meaner but I don’t like how they changed the disc brakes even though I know its because the pedal rotors are not as effective in stopping so for a high end bike it makes sense that they went back to good ole reliable. One thing that they changed which I really loved however is that they changed the normal analog speed cluster to their tft digital display which is incredibly beautiful.

The inspiration for this blog post is that I recently purchased a zx-6r after browsing at it for months and when the new style finally dropped I haven’t stopped comparing the previous years to the new years.