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fork action, making the shock a touch harder,
and increasing the rear ride height on the rear by
1mm. Little changes that enabled the RR to work
better between the twisty back sections at Ara-
gon, but the biggest difference between this bike
and the standard ZX-10R came down to those
beautiful Marchesini forged aluminum wheels.
For me, the fitment of those wheels trans-
formed the RR from a great looking and sounding
bike to one that was genuinely a bike that could
challenge for superstock podiums straight out of
the box. Barreling into turn one at Aragon, the ZX-
10RR went from bolt upright to on its ear almost
instantly, far faster than a standard ZX-10R. And
it did it so fluidly—the greater turn speed did not
sacrifice any stability and even reduced the effort
of riding. The back section of Aragon is similar in
some ways to Chuckwalla in Southern California
