FEATURE
P54
30 YEARS OF SUZUKI GSX-R750
STORY BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY AMERICAN SUZUKI
30
YEARS YOUNG
(including myself) have
used at nauseum "racer-
with-lights" and spawned an
entirely new industry, that of
the modern superbike.
Thirty years later, the
GSX-R750 is still going
strong. The list of machines
its vanquished could fill
this magazine twice over—
the Yamaha FZ and YZF,
Kawasaki ZXR and ZX-7R,
Honda RC30 and 45, as well
as innumerable Ducatis and
Bimotas—all rivals that have
Thirty years young,
the GSX-R750 is
one of those iconic
bikes you have to
ride at least once
in your lifetime.
1
984 was a long time ago.
Michael Jackson took
eight Grammys while
managing to set his hair on
fire in a Pepsi commercial,
the Soviet Union boycotted
the Summer Olympics in L.A,
and Vanessa Williams lost
her Miss USA crown after
some shots of her in her
birthday suit popped up in
Penthouse.
The fourth year of the
1980s also signaled a shift
in the way we perceived
sporting motorcycles,
because at that year's
Cologne Show, the public
got their first glimpse of the
future. The Suzuki GSX-R750
was unlike anything ever
seen before. It coined
the phrase moto journos
