I am not, with rare exceptions, a fan of retro-styled bikes. Too many — I’m thinking of Honda’s CB1100 here — tend to remind me just how bad the “good old times” really were. Others are simply poor stylistic impressions of beautiful motorcycles past (and, again, I’m looking at you Honda and that same CB1100). And still others fail to capture the fact that the oldies they seek to emulate were popular because they were the superbikes of the day, not some middle-of-the-road nostalgiacycles aimed at the elderly and infirm. Some things are better left forgotten and first amongst them are fat, lazy motorcycles with crap suspension and seriously hum-drum engines.
That’s why I was expecting so little when I picked up Kawasaki’s latest Z900, the RS SE. A quick toot around the block, thought I, get some photos of the tank since that best captures the
