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S6 E3: What’s going on with Suzuki? Kawasaki Making EVs & Hybrids?

Highside / Lowside: Motorcycle Podcast

RevZilla

Motorcycles, Automotive, Leisure, Motorcyclenews, Revzilla

4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Kawasaki has shown off the sounds of the next generation and it’s the sound of silence. With their new bikes on display at the famous Suzuka International Circuit in Japan, Kawasaki is looking to be the next major manufacturer to enter the Electric ring. Also, what’s the deal with Suzuki lately? Pulling out MotoGP and some other major decisions has us wondering what’s happening over in Hamamatsu, Japan. The silver fox himself, Lance Oliver returns to try and process what’s happening to Suzuki with Zack and Spurg. What are your thoughts? Let us know!!

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0:00.0

Good day, two-wheeled world, Zach here with RevZill and here with my friend Spurge.

0:04.3

This is High Side, Low Side, Season 6, Episode 3, coming up on the podcast, a hybrid electric

0:10.7

motorcycle from Kawasaki, a discussion of what's going on with Suzuki, with our friend Lance

0:16.5

Oliver who will stick around for another edition of the Rev Trivia Engine Guessing Game,

0:21.0

then we'll give away a t-shirt, and of course we'll hear from you, the viewers and listeners.

0:25.6

Before we jump into that, over to Spurge, with a word from our sponsor, Motul.

0:30.9

For those of you that are avid listeners of the podcast, you know that I have a reputation

0:35.0

of being a bit of a fanboy for the KTM product. However, I think the KTM product, especially

0:39.7

in their dirt bike line, has gotten a bit of a bad reputation as being maintenance intensive.

0:45.3

I mean, all you have to do is change the oil once in a while, and the bike is good to go.

0:50.1

And I want to give a shout out to Motul for making it very easy to change the oil because they have

0:54.5

products for their entire oil line available in either one liter or four liter containers.

0:59.6

So for my small KTM dirt bike, I only need a liter of oil, and I can just use one liter and

1:04.4

it's perfectly measured out. And for my larger 890 rally, well, that's where that four liter

1:09.5

container really comes into play. So I want to give a shout out to Motul for making my oil changes

1:14.7

easier as well as yours. And as always, they sponsor Zach's favorite podcast, High Side Low Side.

1:21.2

No kidoki everybody, you heard it here first. It's Spurgeon doesn't care what kind of KTM you have

1:30.0

as long as you put Motul oil in it. We'll be happy here at High Side Low Side. Is that right Spurgeon?

1:34.4

It's pretty much sums up my emotions across the board. Right.

1:39.6

Okido, welcome everyone. You may know if you listen to High Side Low Side for any

1:45.4

period of time, which we hope you have, that we're often cynical about emerging technologies

1:50.6

such as electric motorcycles, high road motorcycles. They often come from manufacturers we've never

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