More power for the 820RR: ZX Moto is kicking into second gear for 2027

Many established manufacturers have learnt the hard way just how difficult it is to build a competitive motorbike. It is all the more challenging for a young company like ZX Moto, which was only founded in 2024. The partnership with Evan Bros Racing – one of the most successful teams in the Supersport World Championship – quickly bore fruit: Valentin Debise secured a one-two finish as early as the second round of the season. The Frenchman remained the figurehead of the Chinese manufacturer, which finished the 2026 Supersport World Championship as runners-up, with six wins and eight podium finishes.

ZX Moto developed the 820RR, fitted with a three-cylinder engine, for the Supersport category. “We won’t be resting on our laurels,” Debise promised in an interview with our colleagues at Paddock-GP. “At the moment we’re riding the base model, the cheapest bike in the range, and next year we’ll be switching to a slightly more advanced model with different specifications: a different engine, different forks, brakes, a few other bits and pieces, the rims and so on. We hope there’s something in there that will help us. The balance system will be changed for next year, though we don’t yet know exactly how.”

ZX Moto’s aim was to produce the motorbike in three different performance levels. However, the top-of-the-range model, which was intended to serve as the basis for racing, was not yet ready at the start of the season. Two versions are currently being advertised on the company’s website. “It’s a further development of the existing model. We have the RS version and will be switching to the RR,” revealed the ZX Moto rider. “The motorbike has already been unveiled, sold and so on. It’s nothing out of the ordinary. I mean, we won’t have an extra 20 PS, and even if we did have 20 PS more, they’d just restrict it by 20 PS anyway.”

Debise continued: “This winter is going to be another mad one, although we’re still ahead of schedule compared to last year – back then we didn’t have a single bike ready to ride! Now we’ve at least got one, which is something at least. But we can’t rest on our laurels, because the competition will be fierce as ever, and there are lots of new riders coming through.”

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