2013 Kawasaki Ninja 300 Dyno Test Dyno Shootout: Honda CBR250R vs. Ninja 250 vs. Ninja 300.

My first order of business upon receiving a 2013 Ninja 300 testbike involved rolling the bike onto Cycle World’s Dynojet dynamometer to measure the ponies corralled in Kawasaki’s Shetland-size sportbike. To better show the performance gains of the new liquid-cooled, 296cc parallel-Twin, we’ve laid dyno graphs of a 2011 Kawasaki Ninja 250R and 2011 Honda CBR250R—both of which had been previously tested on our dyno—over that of the Ninja 300.

2013 Kawasaki Ninja 300 Review

Bad news for those who own a motorcycle in the quarter-liter category: the 2013 Kawasaki Ninja 300 has officially made your bike obsolete. After feeling the pressure as bikes like the CBR250 started to encroach on the beginner bike market share Kawasaki has virtually dominated for two decades, Team Green saw it fit to elevate the stakes even more by dramatically revamping the venerable Ninja 250 into what is now the 300.