FIRST RIDE
2013 SUZUKI HAYABUSA GSX-R1300
Refining
BIG BIRD
A few changes for the Hayabusa for 2013
BY PAUL CARRUTHERS
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ENRICO PAVIA
I
f the Suzuki Hayabusa were a human, you would have to medicate it. It's somewhat schizophrenic. And it's definitely bi-polar.
You don't have to look much farther than the speedometer to
see what sort of motorcycle this is. For starters, you couldn't fit
a hummingbird's pecker between the 5 mph increments on the
analog speedo as it takes your eyes from 0 to 185 mph. And good
luck figuring out just how fast you're going and how to keep it there:
Okay, I'm going 55; oops, I'm going 90… what the F? 120 mph.
Whew, back to 65… or is that 62?
The Suzuki
Hayabusa
GSX-R1300
gets its first
updates since
the complete
makeover it got
in 2008.
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