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Cycle News 2017 Issue19 May 16

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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2017 SUZUKI GSX-R1000 FIRST TEST P100 We have yet to sample the big daddy 1000R here at Cycle News, something that will hap- pen in the very near future, so for us, the base model GSX-R1000 will serve as our introduction to the 2017 machine—a bike Suzuki is hoping will take it back to the top of the superbike heap after several years in the wilderness. Like the Honda CBR1000RR, it's been nearly 10 years since we've seen a new GSX-R1000. Well, seven, actually, but that's It still looks like a GSX-R and has a very similar feel to the old bike when you sit on it. The new headlight, however, looks much better. a lifetime in modern superbike terms. The game has moved so, so far since then, but Suzuki know how to build a good bike when they want to, and the title of King of Superbike is one they dearly want back after having a monopoly on it for a couple of decades. MORE REVS, MORE POWER Smaller, lighter, faster—that's the superbike game in 2017. Dimen- sionally Suzuki's achieved the smaller part of the equation as the 2017 motor is 22.2mm shorter (Clockwise from top left) Here you can see the balls located in the cam grooves (white sprocket). There's very, very little that hasn't been changed in the new Suzuki motor. Brand new, lightweight finger followers replace the tappet system of the 2016 model.

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