gixxer: Will a GSX-R-style inline-Four replace the previous GP-only V-Four GSV-R?

Spied! 2014 Suzuki MotoGP Prototype! Will a GSX-R-style inline-Four replace the previous GP-only V-Four GSV-R?

May 22, 2012 By Kevin Cameron Leave a Comment

Insiders tell us this is a prototype for Suzuki’s return to MotoGP in 2014. The project was, we are told, “hot for a while” and then cooled off. Now, with these photos from a test earlier this month at Sugo Circuit in Japan, it clearly has momentum again. What have we here? We see from [...]

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Filed Under: Future Bikes and Spy Shots, Racing, Sportbike Tagged With: 2014, gixer, gixxer, GSV-R, GSX-R, MotoGP, prototype racers, Racing, Sportbike, Sugo Circuit, Suzuki

Godzilla – World’s Coolest Bikes No GSX-R1000 has ever been as pure a monster as the “K5.”

April 18, 2012 By Gary Inman 1 Comment

The high watermark. The last of the pure superbikes. Unexpurgated. The pinnacle. All downhill from here… K5: Seldom has a consonant and number pairing had such significance in the motorcycle world as the one affixed to Suzuki’s 2005-06 GSX-R1000. Those outside Hamamatsu’s inner circle didn’t know it at the time, but after the two-year sales [...]

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2012 Suzuki GSX-R1000 – First Ride Gixxer generation 5.5.

February 14, 2012 By Don Canet Leave a Comment

Tucking in tight on the 2012 Suzuki GSX-R1000.

Wholesale change doesn’t often come quickly on the heels of resounding success. Since its debut a decade ago, the Suzuki GSX-R1000 has amassed an impressive tally of 37 combined world and national roadrace titles. The mighty Gixxer has proven particularly dominant in AMA Superbike, stringing together seven back-to-back championships from 2002 to ’09, while the [...]

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