it? How many times, in how many areas of life, has
this turned out to be true? While other new bikes
are launched shrouded in fogs of hype, others just
roll out of the crate and offer themselves for your
consideration.
Honda's ABS-equipped Fireblade have. In fact, the
GSX-R1000 seemed a bit, `so what?' when it was
officially revealed in September 2008.
this is understandable, since the K9 looks like the
previous model GSX-R (it has its older brother's
eyes, its sister's curves...), which is the blessing
and the curse Suzuki has to live with.
frame and the new swinging arm and check out the
new monoblock Tokico calipers. Check the power,
torque, weight and wheelbase specs. Now do you
see? This really is a properly new bike, not a noisy
new engine bolted into an old chassis. This is more
of a new bike than any GSX-R1000 since the all-
conquering 2005 model.
Suzuki UK took us to Almeria circuit with former
British superbike champion, John Reynolds and its
2009 BSB rider Sylvain Guintoli to find out. And?
sensibilities, but that Anglo-Saxon expletive was
precisely what came into my mind on my first lap
of the Andalucian circuit. There's no humming or
hawing, there's no time for chin-stroking here. Pin
the throttle to the stop in second gear coming out of
Almeria's long right hand turn 11 and onto the near
one kilometer long straight and the biking equivalent
of `Holymotherofgod!' is what you experience.