Little Ninja that can! Fast 250!
 

Even though the little Ninja will never be as fast as larger bikes, I like many of you am always interested in making what I have go faster. I have been involved as an owner, rider and tuner of several National land speed bikes over the years and several of them have been Kawasakis. I did a ZX-12R Turbo back in 2003 that went 218mph and also a nitrous ZX-10 that went over 202mph in 2005.

For 2008 I turned my attention toward the smallest Ninja and I am happy to say that as far as we can tell from looking through the record books that you are looking at the fastest open wheel, gasoline powered, 4 stroke 250 in the world. Of course there are faster streamliner, Nitrous or turbo bikes and 2 strokes. But the little Ninja is a 4 stroke street bike and we kept it that way.

The first shot below is just the bike alone and then below that is the bike crossing the finish line at the ECTA/Maxton (East Coast Timing Association) land speed event on October 25th 2008 where we set the record of 111.30421mph. And for those of you not familiar with Maxton it is a standing start one mile course. www.ecta-lsr.com

Zack Millholland of Tennessee was the Jockey for the bike and he is a fellow 200mph club member as well. Actually Zack is member#30 to that exclusive club which only has a total of 95 members (EVER).

Here is the line taken from the ECTA record book showing the record we set on it.

9692 MPS/G-250/4 Team Green Zack Millholland Oct-08 111.304

Here is the link for all the motorcycle records in the MPS catagory.

http://ecta-lsr.com/RecordsMoto2.php


Of course the bike was heavily modified with goodies like
JE High compression pistons
APE ported head
Oversize Titanium valves
APE cam chain tensioner
APE adjustable cam sprockets
Area P Full exhaust
Schnitz Racing lowering links and front strap
Custom land speed racing gas tank
Jet Kit
World Wide ceramic wheel bearings
Low friction chain
Revised gearing
Innovate Onboard Data logger
Motul 300V Full synthetic oil

And a few other goodies we prefer not to talk about just yet.

The entire engine was built and dyno tuned by Chris Hill at Performance Psycle in Knoxville Tennessee.

Feel free to ask if you have any specific questions and I will check in from time to time to try and answer them as best I can.

that is badass worlok!! hell ya man

i bet i can imagine the cam duration and grind on those secret weapons i'm sure you've installed.. lol

nice job homey.

Oh yeah, just an article I found so I thought I would post it for the 250 riders. And no I did not build it! Those 250's are too scary for me!

agreed, right on! I want a 250. We do not have that standing mile opportunity around here. I bet I am getting closer NA on my 10r though on the 200mph goal.