T
ha t' s the name of the game. In
the e ver- ev o lving technolog y that
h a llm a rk s m od ern motor c y cl ing ,
wh en upp ing the performanc e a nte,
even in a catego ry as im po rt a nt as
th e s uper-co m petitive 600cc Super s po rt cl as s, some le a p fo rward and
ot hers get left behind .
Last year both Yamaha a nd Honda
ma de hea d lines with a ll-n e w 600cc
models, the YZF-R6 an d F4 signifi cantly upstaging the then-cless -lea d-
ing second -qene ration Kawasaki ZX6R. All along , Suzuk i has been
hanging tough with its modernized
GSX -R600 , a bi ke culled from the
same gene pool as the GSX·R750 ,
wh ich has ruled th e 750cc Supersport
c las s since 1996, and also bro ug ht
home an AMA Superb ike Charnpl onship under th e g ui d a nce of Mat
Mlad in last seaso n. The good th ing in
all of th is is tha t the co untle ss hours
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