The A2 licence class has never been more important – or more interesting. We took two of the best – Kawasaki’s 2019 Ninja 400 and the 2019 Yamaha YZF-R3 – for a couple of weeks daily riding around London and the South-East. We compare everything from performance, to top speed, to price, to find out which bike is best. How did we get on? Let’s find out…
At a time when the popularity of sportsbikes is at an all-time low throughout most of Europe, the re-introduction of cheap-but-desirable small-bore sports machines could be seen as something of a faux pas. Just build more naked and adventure machines shurely?
But then it could also be seen as an inspired move; a way to stir the loins of the millennial A2 licence-holder in much the same way the four-cylinder 400cc screamers offered 1990s riders a ticket into the then-popular race replica market, without the need to sell a kidney to cover the insurance on a 600 or 750. Add in the global advantages of building them cheaply in today’s developing markets, then also selling them to upwardly-mobile riders there, and you have a sure-fire winner (in theory at least…)
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