JOLLY FAST, GREEN GIANT 2012 KAWASAKI ZZR 1400

I’ve had this bike two-and-a-half years now and I bought it originally to take my son on the back. He is 10 years old now and he’s been to five Manx GPs on the back of one bike or another. I’ve got a few other bikes. We have been over there on my MV Agusta F3, then an F4 RR, but we wanted something that was low enough and comfortable enough for him to get on, but still practical, and fast – none of my other bikes are particularly practical, so that’s what I thought I was missing.

I had actually been looking at ZZRs with a mind to maybe buying one when I met someone on The Cat and Fiddle, out for a ride one day, who had one. I got chatting to him. It turned out he was mechanic for the WD40 BSB team, and he’d had a Gen