Good Mover, But How Far?

I had to fill up the tank today.  That caught me by surprise, coming a day-or-so earlier than expected.  The fuel gauge read 2 bars when I left home, and for the duration of the ride to work.  When I was leaving work it read one bar, then about 5 minutes from home the fuel light came on...surprising, to say the least.  Of course, once I filled the tank I no longer felt the need to take it easy on the throttle...


This thing absolutely rips when the throttle is opened up.  I had a bit of fun playing around with that on the way home from work tonight after filling the tank.  The bike lopes along at a cruise so comfortably that it's easy to forget how much power those pistons and their contained fury can put out if given the chance.

This bike is a gem.  It's too bad that Kawasaki priced it so high, initially.  They've clearly seen the error in their ways, lowering the MSRP in Canada for 2011 by $2000 vs the 2010 MSRP.

Here's a photo of the bike sitting in the gravelly parking lot at work about a month ago.