After much soul searching, my K has finally departed. After nearly three years of much enjoyable ownership (mostly) and with the 30K mileage creeping ever nearer, my thought process was that my extended warranty would not cover any ESA failure which could run into a four figure sum to put right.
In the last few weeks I've been testing other bikes including younger K bikes in R and S formats and they are still brilliant bikes, but I've gone for something else, hence demoting myself (with the Moderator's permission) into the bowels of the 'Other K bikes or anything else' section.
So here it is.................
This bike is so comfortable, smooth, vibe free and effortless to ride, it beggars belief. I'll let you know in due course when I've put a few hundred miles on it and report back if anyone's interested. If you have the opportunity the test ride a ZZR, then do so and choose the model from 2012 onwards as Kawasaki seemed to have ironed out the small glitches that previous models had.