You Don't Need More: Kawasaki ZX-14R Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2019
- 0 to 60 mph in 2.4 seconds...you don't need more. 1/4 Mile time, about 9.65 seconds for the normally aspirated 1441cc Kawasaki ZX-14R. Welcome to the Nutnfancy review (finally!) of this great looking, great performing Supersport motorcycle.
This might be an interesting review for you for many reasons. First the beautiful mountain backdrop is scenic and also representative of where I run this motorcycle often. Second, I own both the Hayabusa and the ZX-14 and I will draw direct comparisons between both of them. Each is wonderful and I have lots of miles in the seat on both. Third, this is a user's perspective, not a paid dealer or mfr promotional piece...I pay all the bills on these bikes with my real job! Fourth, I attempt to capture what makes this Kawasaki ZX-14R special for you and introduce you to how it's perfect for the "SYLA" POU. This motorcycle is dripping with both 1st and 2nd Cool, and rates as one of my all time favorite bikes to ride.
Note also in the video, during filming of the ZX-14, a truck almost runs me over, easily killing me, on a lonely 2 lane highway as I slowly begin a merge into my own lane...this is also shown and serves to illustrate the point of constant vigilance in running your bikes. Indeed there's lots of inattention by drivers on the road.
We fight through the 30-40 mph winds at this mountain location (the mike works well!) and discuss the Kawasaki ZX-14R in terms of power, performance, reliability, economy/value, ergos, cargo capabilities, brakes, 2-up riding, suspension, cargo carrying and a bit more. Hayabusa is brought into the conversation but don't expect me to say anything bad about the also epic moto. Each of these large Supersports, for me, are supremely fast, cool, and soul fulfilling!
For sure the Kawasaki ZX-14R is a punisher against most other cars and even most, not all, motorcycles. This is from my own experience. But at its core, the bike is docile, economical, reliable, cool, comfortable, and super fun. Surprisingly is makes a perfect daily driver. Combining all these attributes into a package that costs this little is truly astonishing. Patiently observing the secondary market, like Cycletrader.com, can yield a clean low miles ZX-14R for you, just like this pretty red 2013 model reviewed here. Buy with confidence, enjoy your ZX-14R, train, ride lots and lots, and make God your riding partner.
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"Guys sometimes think that if you love one thing, that it diminishes your love for the other thing." - Nutnfancy. I bet owning the Hayabusa and the Ninja is like loving two children. You love them both, but in different ways. Thanks for sharing the excellent motorcycle review! I enjoy these videos, even though I do not own a motorcycle.
I tried telling my wife this... she didnt agree.
@@BuxWV149 Nah, I already have an RV. I'm good.
So glad you didn't neglect this sweet ass babe!
Totally agree Todd. So many negative comments on TH-cam always slagging off the bike they don't own. I love 'em both. Period.
Yeah but that Suzuki's looks are like the ugly ginger step child.
When I first sat on my ZX14R, it just felt right for me. The fact that it's a 1441cc bike with 195+hp is just a bonus. It doesn't feel like a big bike, until you twist the throttle.
I have one and when they get to 5000 RPMs you better have a tight grip on it. 😳
I have the 09 zx14. Bought it with 17k miles 2 years ago. It was stolen then recovered and out of my grasp for 6 months. It now has 76k miles. It's mega. And still on its original clutch, amazingly!!
Glad you got your bike back. My gen 1 busa was never recovered
@@pumpedupbro4200... I had a tracker on it. It lead police to a lock up with a hoard of stolen bikes and cars. Those dudes went to jail!!!
I’m watching this for the 3rd time. I have no plans to get one, but I love when you are excited about a product. Thanks for the content!
I've missed the motorcycle vids. I have a kawasaki concours and absolutely love it. Keep TNP motorcycle vids coming. God Bless!
Glad you brought a motorcycle 🏍 review back to the project.
Lt. Col. ,
Your reviews and insights continue to surprise, inform and entertain me. Much thanks for all that you do 🤙!
Don't have a motorcycle but do enjoy the videos. Love the content Nutn!
Awesome review. Nice change up in subject matter but related. I have been riding for decades and love the lifestyle. Thanks Nutn.
Love this interview. Everything I wanted to explore, you touched upon.Thanks !
Nutn, I’ve been subbed since 08 and motorcycle vids will always be my favourite vids of yours
Excellent review! I would love to ride one. Can’t wait for your FJR review👍👍
Yeah Baby!!!! Bought one this January that had been stolen and recovered. I'm a few weeks and a couple parts from being totally rebuilt on it. Can't wait to ride it.
I haven't watched your channel in a while and it's grown a ton!! Congratulations!!
That was an excellent review. You gave some very good details I was meeting. Thank you very much.🇺🇸😎
You are so right sir! "It makes me happy" That is why I love life! Thanks for putting words to it! Ride safe brother!
Keep the moto stuff up! I started after many years of debate but I think your video (should you motorcycle?) something like that made me feel better about it. You are pretty level headed and safe like me but also enjoy "dangerous" things. Thanks Nutn'!
Oh man, motorcycle videos return!! I hope we see many more this year!! Sport touring rider here! Fjr all the way!
I love the motorcycle reviews nutn. Keep em coming.
Great review. I like that you took your time and didn’t try to cram everything into 10 minutes.
Great review, Nutn. I still have my ‘98 Honda interceptor vfr 800 and I love it. I ride it to work as often as I can given the weather. It’s actually a 781 cc v4 engine with a single-sided swingarm. Has gear-driven cams. Sounds awesome.
I just picked up a 2019 because of this video!!😃 Love it!! Thanks for a great review, from Colorado.
I'm trading my Z900 for one soon, what's it like so far?
Nice video Nutn! My first bike was a 2008 Zx14! Love it! Two other bikes since getting vid of it! Just bought the Big 2019 Kawasaki Concours! Never will I let this bike go! Back together again!
Since 2008, my Father has had a ZX-14 of some flavor or another, and I've gotten to ride a few. Way more power than teenage me was prepared for. It's actually pointed me towards my beloved ZX-6r. Fantastic machines.
Another Nutn motorcycle review...heck yes. I love these. Please keep doing them. I would love to see you test ride a ninja H2.
NF with the moto review! I love the channel! I'm going to patreon now. I've been lurking too long! Keep it up! Just picked up my MT-09 today!
If nothing else I love the easy access of basic maintenance items on the zx14r. Fluid reservoir caps and such right behind those black slash side panels. NOT having to pull the entire side panel like many sport bikes.
Love love LOVE the gas tank sticker with the lounge-chair operator
Love the Ninja I have a ZX-10R and are about to get the ZX 14R.Great video.
Thanks for the review, love the motorcycle videos.
Haha love the review brother! Makes me want to go get another bike right now. Ride safe.
All I can say Nutn is FINALLY we get the review of the top dog of all motorcycles!!! You only showed/teased a very brief, and I mean brief photo of your red 14 a LONG TIME AGO...and to the best of my knowledge, haven't mentioned it since - WTH was with that!?!? When I saw the video where you showed the red 14, I was totally looking forward to a fun review vid!!!
Anywho, as they say, you can't make this stuff up. After selling my 4th, yes 4th ZX-14R, and LITERALLY just receiving my check YESTERDAY from the dealership where I sold it on consignment...you post your review video!!! Good god, the timing!!! 😜 I am now "very unfortunately" done riding motorcycles permanently as I can simply no longer justify the risk vs. reward equation. So it is with a heavy heart and a bittersweet laugh, I am about to watch your review of my beloved, top choice of all motorcycles...the KAWY ZX-14R!!!
Thank you for all of the moto vids that you have done over the past several years - with Tactical D, Last Suspect, Bugget, Mrs. Nutn, Matt, and all of your other friends, they've always been a lot of fun to watch! 👍
I own a 2015 zx14r 30th anniversary..and your review is spot on..good job
This is up there with your hayabusa review. Well done.
Great comprehensive review..👊👍
Best ZX14 video on the net.
Great video...Been a subscriber since the beginning... Got new KLR650 2014.5 in 2014 back when you started putting up videos of adventure bikes..
Iv'e had my bike almost 3 years and I still love it and how I feel riding it. I also like just looking at it and maintaining it's good looks.
Great review loved it. Thank you. 👍🏼👍🏼👊
I had a pearl white ZX14R until last March. It morphed into a 2018 R1200RT cause I already have a S1000rr. The 14 was one of the best bikes I’ve ever ridden. Great review!
Which do you prefer out of the RT and the ZX14 if you don't mind me asking? Any pro's cons or regrets? Cheers from the UK :)
Good review, I have the 2018 ZZR 1400 and totally agree that it’s an awesome bike.
Finally some more motorcycle content! Hope to see some ride n eats and dirt biking videos as the summer goes on I currently own a harley street bob And just got a yz125 a couple months ago as a re entry into dirt biking
I just bought a kawasaki Z900RS! Cafe! LOVE IT.
Been here for about a decade and think I like your moto vids the best! Waiting to see what Kawasaki replaces the KLR 650 with after the final 2018 model.
Love the motorcycle reviews 👍
Excellent review - beautiful views
Thank you for sharing!
I'm 52 years old & love me sport bikes.
Being 6' & 240 lbs i need more comfort & a machine i can do week long rides on & not feel cramped.
The ZX-14 is a weapon of a bike!!!
I own both as well , 2012 Gen 2 Busa and 2013 ZX14R 1441 , both road ridden and setup to ride fast with full Ohlins suspension so they corner pretty good as well . Love them both equally , the last of the big cc hyper sports , so I plan on keeping them as modern classics .
About time we get more motorcycle vids!!!
Mines the 2013 Pearl White, it's still an awesome machine. Thanks for the review!
This was *great* Nut'n! Beautiful machine. You're probably the only person I would allow to ride my current (and probably last) bike, a BMW R1200RT. To you it would seem light, slow, and with a sound reminiscent of a 1950's aircraft, but it is a SYLA + comfort bike ; )
I think that bike is a in-line 4 cylinder... 🤔 definitely not a V-twin 23:20
It is a in-line 4 cylinder
yeah i heard that too idk what he is talking about.
Perhaps he's referring to the available low end torque which is probably excellent.
Maybe he was thinking of his KTM?
Just making sure I wasn’t the only one to hear that lol
What you buy yourself when they didn't issue you an F-15
Larry Funk mine still scares me 😍👍🏻🇬🇧
Hey what a great review on the zzr1400. I was after one of these last year but couldn't find one in my area for sale. I ended up buying a busa 2014 with 1000 mile on the clock. At the end of your review you compared the kawa to the busa and said not really much between them . I've looked at maybe selling the busa and getting the Zzr1400 but, you've now convinced me to keep my bike. I do like the busa quite a lot, its just with this covid stuff going on I've only done 200 miles in the last year. I just really need to go out and ride. Thanks for your comparison on the bikes, happy riding bud.
I think your channel is awesome. I currently own a 2019 FJR and love the torque.
Excellent video as usual, makes me want to get back to riding a MC again.
Thanks for making more motorcycle content!!!
Nice review 👍 I own a 2017 Yamaha FZ 07 and I love it... It's so light and flickable around town but if there are high winds on the highway I get tossed around just like Nutnfancy mentioned in the video.
The box you put on the rear of the bike really makes the zx14 such a sleeper. To the average highway cop it looks like a regular old touring bike haha.
I did the Iron Butt on the ZX-14R, it was surprisingly very comfortable.
Nutn you have literally changed my life, I now have started to do some basic prepping, I now edc, mountain bike more and even camp. I have also started developing systems for everyone of these pursuits, but even before I found tnp I was a biker problem is now I am moving away from sports bikes like my gsxr 750 and wanting more to move into either a hyper bike or sports adventure like a BMW s1000xr, so can I say thank you for my new found outlook on life. I am having a hell of alot more fun than 5 years ago (just wish the UK was more cool like America but I'm doing my best with what I got 👍👍👍) oh and my van and bikes rock tnp stickers even in sunny Manchester
The sr1k is cool but Matt’s has proven very pricey. Nf knows more details but it’s very much the old ‘why fix this part when you can replace the whole system’ kind of repair. Maybe the xr is better but the gear is pretty close. The ktm and ducati adv bikes are radical, but not without gremlins. -Doodle
@@nutnfancy Yeah this is the problem I am having with euro bikes, I have had Ducati's in the past (748,749s and a 999r) and no matter how good they look they are always broken, I was hoping the BMW would be different but I'm hesitant to spend £15000 to find out. On the other hand I can get a upgradef low mileage zzr1400 for £8000 and the look fantastic in Kawasaki green 👍👍
I know you from your other channel.
I have a ZX4R and a C-14, love them both. Rode the ZX-14R for 1350 miles in two and a half days. Running in front of a storm.
Bike was fantastic both on the flat and the mountains. Handled a 40 mph plus crosswind for 150 miles. Never had a worry.
If you're careful with it, one could be a newish rider and grow into it. But careful is the word.
Great video on a bike I love.
Great review! Love Kawasakis!
DUDE!!!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR MC VIDS!!!! THANKS!!
Awsome. I own 2 hayabusa, glad to see we share the same intrest!
Can't wait for the fjr review!
Nutn, Brilliant review as I would imagine you are the best gun review were on the planet God bless you sir and keep it going
I enjoy going between my 250 Yamaha dirtbike in my Z x14 God bless you
Looks so cool in red, love nutn’s prospective on this
Cool review. I have always wanted a FJR.
Yes, that is the stock seat, called a saddle seat. The engine is a 1441cc inline 4.
I own 4 2012's and 1 2013 (all limited editions.) I love them as much as the day I bought them. Linear power and intuitive steering with very good breaks.
I'm also 6'3" and weight just over 300lbs, but the bike fits me great. It is a more refined bike than the Busa, but I like the Busa too.
Damn spellchecker....I mean very good Brakes!
Love the motorcycle videos!
I was familiar with your 1000 in a day, and wondered if and when you would review a Kawi. Thanks for an excellent review.
As you said both would be excellent bikes.
And even if they can make the scenery disappear in the rear views is no reason that has to happen all the time.
Very nice colour scheme. Some cool roads too!
Yes! I’ve been waiting for this one!
Thanks for your patience!
I owned the Zzr 14 and busa at same time too, prefer the Kawasaki too the busa, great review dude.
Most deplomatic review on the best 2 bikes in the world roll that power on Sir.
Dude, always liked your reviews, you do a great job! I would say if I lived out west, at 5:08 you nailed it, I wouldn't be riding a Harley as my primary, I would be on one of these especially with the altitude. I have a CBR 600RR for the track and a Harley for cruising but out west where it is so "big and vast" I will have to say this would be my primary cruiser. I still might get one for the east coast but I think it might be a waste out here on our roads with our idiotic speed limits, lol. Be safe!
Great vid! Nice work :)
i have this exact one...including the rare red colour which is specific to the first gen II ZX14R. Kawasaki know EXACTLY what they are doing with this bike....it dominates and obliterates anything on the road, even owning an H2 will not give you an edge over this in real world circumstances. this rocket ship bounces pass the 300kph mark with ease in seconds and it will sit there without effort. there is not a rider on this planet that can convince me this machine has flaws....it is perfection. this is my affidavit 👊
I have ridden for a long time. Look into adjusting your suspension correctly. Normally takes 2 people and 30min-1hr. Both front and back spring tensions, rebound, and damper. There are TH-cam videos that teach you how to do it, and it is necessary. Everyone is a different weight and requires their motorcycle/scooter suspension set up individually. Great video!
Love it when he says Mrs Nutnfancy!!
I just graduated from police motors school here in Utah. I ride a 2017 Harley Electra Glide for work. I've always liked bikes but this is the most I've riden on streets (experience mostly on dirt bikes). I'm loving the bike content, it's so awesome getting paid to ride 😊
Congrats, stay safe.
Congrats...thank you for serving, be safe out there
I've had both, and the Hayabusa was just a bit more comfortable for me, I'm riding the 14R now, and I'd pick it over the busa by just a hair if I had to pick again. It does a few thing just a little bit better, and when you open it up it roars just a tick more. I rode about 300 miles today on my 14R and I don't feel like I've done more than run around town a bit. It's seriously a pretty well rounded Superbike that can tour with a bit of adaptation.
Damn Nutn! I haven't watched one of your vids in so long. You been reviewing some pretty eccentric crap here lately. BUT!!! This review is a dream come true from your channel. I been wanting a ZX14R for a while. Ever since I got my ZRX1100! But I am happy with the performance of my bike (for now). Its funny every reason you outlined in this video why you like it. Is the same EXACT reason I have my bike but want the 14R! Big heavy and fast!
Great review dude.
Mines a 2013 too. Unbelievably fantastic bike. 198 BHP at the wheel after a remap.
Thanks, love it, getting one in two weeks
I just purchased mine and love it.
Stunning scenery
I don't own a bike. But loooooove riding my friends zx14. For a 300lb guy it is hella comfortable and response. Hopefully 2021 will be my year.
I'm 325 and 71 years old but I plan on getting one after I get my car paid off in three years hopefully. My wife said that I am not as strong as I used to be so I shouldn't get a bike and I told her that all in need is a strong right wrist. I am actually in good shape for my size and age.
Plan on used...there is no ZX14R beyond 2020
I went to the dealer to buy a new busa but it wasn’t very comfortable. I tossed a leg over a zx14r that was a few bikes down. I rode my 2019 zx14r away a few days later. Still love it. Only performance upgrades are a K&N air filter, DELKEVIC 18” ovals and a MOORE MAFIA tuned ECU.
Awesome Kawasaki motorcycle Nutsnfancy !!!!!!!!!!
Another excellent review
Own a CBR1000RR and a drz400sm and it makes life tough choosing which to chose when opening the garage. Wife finally wanted to get her own and got a 2018 ninja 400 and is coming along slowly getting it. She understands now what I love about it.
I have a 2017 zx14r and I can say I love my bike.
Awesome review, man! On Zx6R right now, and it's already too much power and too much almost everything for my skills. Love the stopping power though, you can never have too much of it. But I will change it to a battleship like this, most probably ST 1100 or FJR. Zx14R maybe some day, why not.
Another Nutnfancy motorcycle review???!!! WTH!!! Yuuuussss!!!!
I just clicked 2x speed for the first time. It makes you sound super excited about the bike. And you love the bike :)
Great view Nutn! Had a GTR1400 (Conours 14) for the last 5 years, couldn't ask for a better bike. Too spoiled by the 3 boxes and shaft drive ;)
Awesome bike. Great choice. Would love to know the power difference between zx14 and the concours.
@@ralphdodson9865 the Connie wears a detuned zx14 motor. That said it's plenty of power with tall gears that'll pull all day long.
Ha Ha Ha ! I am Japanese and riding K1200 , and struggling with series of electric Issues on every 3 weeks.
I regret choosing German Machine. (as My friend has GTR 1400 already)
"You need to go play with your boots controller a little bit more." 🤣🤣.. omg cracking up!