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| | Motorcyclist Magazine--Kawasaki ZR-7S |
 | | So even though the ZR's a frisky back-road tool, the extra weight it carries in the form of a standard centerstand, a big thick seat, nice passenger grabrails, bungee rails, etc., sort of aims it in a more sport-touring/commuter-bike direction, and in that niche the ZR excels like few econo bikes we can recall. |
 | | As a matter of fact, the ZR's one of the best commuters in the paddock thanks to said seat, a rubber-mounted engine, standard-bike ergos including a high and wide handlebar, decent wind protection-and 48 mpg gives it 250-mile range, a feat none of the expensive luxoboats can accomplish. |
 | | The ZR's ergos also make careening around swervy back roads an exercise in humility for riders of real "sportbikes," as there's really nothing to keep a good ZR rider from hanging with the pack-well, except long straights or maybe a few thousand feet of altitude. |
| www.motorcyclistonline.com /roadtests/zr7s (951 words) |
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