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2004 Suzuki GSX-R600
Cue the bad Ricky Martin music:
"She revs, she revs, she stops, she stops...
The newestlinle GSX-R really works
By PAUL CARRUTHERS
PHOTOS BY MATTEO CAVADINI/ALEX PHOTO
y mirrors were filled with black, and I was trying hard to keep the Army
behind me. Perhaps a little too hard, my brand-span king-new Suzuki GSXR600 within a millimeter or two of dropping its wheels off the outside
curbing in the fastest of the four fast left-handers that lead to the back
straight at the Misano circuit. It would have been ugly. Bus-wreck ugly. But
at that point, I didn't really give a hoot . I was on the Adriatic coast of Italy, and I was ha
fun, thinking more about grabbing that next upshift at exactly the right time as the
G5X-Rscreamed like a baby with colic, panting at 15,500 rpm beneath me.
This was cool. And like a bunker full of good guys, the Army wasn't getti
least not yet.
The last of those four left-handers at Misano is fast. I'm not sure how fast
way I look at it, ifyou have time to look, you could probably be going faster.
M
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