2018 SUZUKI GSX-R1000R
R I D E R E V I E W
P102
I
awoke one Wednesday morning rather bemused. It'd been years
since I'd spent any great deal of time with a superbike in my garage,
and I must admit, I felt slightly emasculated.
Had I simply outgrown superbike street riding? Surely I wasn't
that old. There had to be a touch of lunacy left in my loins.
Therefore, a seed planted in my brain. I'd take this, the Suzuki GSX-
R1000R, and pit it against a Kawasaki ZX-10RR. These two have been
slugging it out on racetracks since they both arrived on the scene a
couple of years ago, so I figured it'd be good to see what's what in SoCal.
But there was no Kawasaki available. Not at least until I was a
few months deep with the Suzuki and the 900 other things I was
doing took precedence.
OK—so a long term Suzuki test it became.
BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIT PALMER
LIVING WITH
A BI-POLAR
THE FLAGSHIP BIKE IN SUZUKI'S
SUPERBIKE LINEUP IS DESIGNED PURELY
FOR THE TRACK. OR SO THEY SAY.
