2017 KAWASAKI Z125 PRO

Team Green takes direct aim at Honda’s Grom

KENT KUNITSUGU

There’s no doubt the Honda Grom has been an instant hit, with sales of the little 125cc bike continuing to rise in double digits and nearly toppling the long-reigning volume leader of the small-displacement streetbike category, Kawasaki’s Ninja 300, last year. Team Green wasn’t about to take that threat lying down, so it brought the Southeast Asian market Z125 Pro over as an early release 2017 model to give the Grom some serious competition. We got the opportunity to ride the new Kawasaki through the streets of San Francisco as well as on a fun little mini closed course in a parking lot on the man-made Treasure Island in the bay. The Kawasaki Z125 Pro (the Pro suffix stems from the manual four-speed gearbox, while the “standard” Z125 in Asia…

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