Summer

July, 1986

Just about any excuse will get us to leave town during the depths of a Chicago winter. But when Kawasaki invited us to Bimini for a few days of making like a motorized skipping stone aboard its new X-2 Jet Ski, we knew that we were in for the wetting party of the year. The X-2 does for aquatic fun and games what the sidecar did for motorcycles---no more solo wave jockeying, with just you and Flipper out there on the briny deep. The X-2's two-cycle, 635-c.c. engine has plenty of poke: 40 miles pe...