During the 2017 Kawasaki Road Safety Campaign launch at the Sungai Besi toll plaza today, it was strongly hinted that the 2017 Kawasaki Versys-X 250 would be launched in Malaysia by the end of this month, followed by the Z900 and Z650 naked sportsbikes, replacements for the Z800 and Er-6, respectively. The quarter-litre class dual-purpose tourer is expected to be in Kawasaki dealer showrooms by March or April, pending Customs clearance.
No details were forthcoming about likely pricing for the Versys-X 250, which is expected to open a new segment for Kawasaki in the road-going 250 cc arena. Quietly launched in November last year, the Versys-X 250 carries a 249 cc liquid-cooled parallel twin with DOHC and eight-valves.
Said to be based on the engine from the Kawasaki Ninja 250R, it is surmised that the Versys-X 250’s engine will produce somewhere about 29.9 hp at 10,500 rpm and 21.7 Nm torque at 10,000 rpm. Driving a six-speed gearbox, the Versys-X uses EFI, which feeds twin-throttle bodies equipped with dual throttle valves.
Fuel is carried in a 17-litre tank, and braking is with single discs, 290 mm front and 220 mm rear, clamped by Nissin calipers. A 41 mm telescopic fork props up the front 19-inch wheel, with Kawasaki’s Uni-Trak single gas-charged absorber at the 17-inch rear.
There are two versions of the Versys-X 250 – City and Tourer. The Tourer comes with a brush guard, twin auxiliary driving lights, hand guards and rear panniers, while the City version does without.
No official word on pricing at the moment, but in Indonesia, the 2017 Kawasaki Versys-X 250 retails for 61,900,000 rupiah (RM20,756) for the City and 72,700,000 rupiah (RM24,377) for the Tourer. Two colour options are shown on Kawasaki’s Indonesian website for the Versys-X 250 – Candy Lime Green/Metallic Graphite Gray and Candy Burnt Orange/Metallic Graphite Gray for the Tourer, while the City gets Candy Lime Green/Metallic Graphite Gray and Metallic Graphite Gray/Flat Ebony.
Seriously Kawasaki, Versys 250 have gear indicator and centre stand, but Versys 650 as optional items. Really?
kawasaki Malaysia, pls at least offer ABS as an optional upgrade if. right now 250cc bikes in Malaysia comes with ABS is only KTM. Honda yamaha kawasaki all don’t want to offer safer bikes yet. cheapest kawasaki with abs is j300 which requires B license. this is the same thing happens with our car market in late 2000s, where Korea cars comes fully loaded with safety features while offering lower price. while Honda. Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi all tin kosong. KTM brand is like Kia right now. offering safer bikes with lower price. sigh…
cannot lah. Even our own Perodua also got no ABS in most of their cars.
Malaysia got no laws. They don’t make it a legal requirement for car or bike companies to give ABS or VSC for our safety.
Human life in Malaysia has no value
honda cbr250r has Abs.
it is kawasaki and yamaha that don’t offer abs for 250cc and below. yamaha is a bigger culprit. even their mt07 / mt09 don’t have abs as option.
Anything more than 15k otr, and I will give it a pass. Can get Chinese copy for less. In this beleaguered times, price vs. branding. Price wins, if quality is passable, in a price sensitive market.
15k is very unlikely. I think will definitely cost more than the current ninja 250, which is already above 20k. What I do wish for is ABS option.
What about Ninja 650 & 1000 (Z1000ZX)??
Btw, the ABS & TCS is quite important spec for touring bike…pls bring them in to the new generation bike if the manufacturers know what is “customer loyalty” and feedback to this kind customers…
The tourer is suitable for our famous roads. But must have abs as standard. Pricing should be below rm15k
I can’t seem to find much information about the seat height.. Anyone?
If you are not a midget, you can ride this.
Can the Digital Instrument Display from Versys X 250 put into Versys 650?? Is there any chance of after market spare to do the mods?
missing the gear indicator are you? Haha…
it might be easier to put the 650 engine into the 250!
Hahaha. No. The digital instrument cluster is more techie and playful compare to the current old school metering indicator