Suzuki Announces Its Remaining 2013 Lineup Two all-new models and a few welcome returnees.

2013 Suzuki GW250 - studio right 3/4 view

American Suzuki showed its hand in Las Vegas over the November 10-11 weekend, revealing to the press its entire motorcycle lineup for the coming year. Although much of Suzuki’s 2013 street and off-road product line had been announced over the past few months (much of which has remained unchanged aside from color/graphics and pricing), the [...]

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The State of the Superbike The ins and outs of class warfare.

The State of the Superbike

We have two upsets for the price of one this month. Aprilia vanquishes the bleeding-edge Ducati for top honors among the Exotics while the apparent overdog Workhorse, the BMW S1000RR, returns to Munich to lick its wounds inflicted by, of all things, a Honda! A Honda without traction control or an unabashedly in-your-eardrums engine note [...]

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2012 Superbike Shootout Nine bikes, two tracks, Workhorses and Exotics, we search for the ultimate roadlegal track weapon in two price ranges.

Superbikes 2012

  Workhorse Shootout Exotic Shootout   Superbike by the Numbers Street Smarts   Rubber Wonders The Pirelli Question   A Shout Out to the Shootout The State of the Superbike  

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2012 Superbike Shootout: By the Numbers A statistical breakdown of hot laps.

Miller-Map

Located near the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Miller Motorsports Park is one of America’s premier roadrace venues. MMP offers multiple course configurations ranging from a lengthy, 4.5-mile Full Course to a 3.08-mile Perimeter Course or, when spit in half, comprises two distinctly different 2.2-mile circuits, aptly named the East Course and West [...]

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2012 Superbike Shootout: Workhorses The most affordable high-performance machines in the world face off.

Workhorses: Superbikes 2012

Budgets are tight these days, right? But that doesn’t mean you have to give up any of life’s necessities like big horsepower, awesome handling or incredible brakes. These machines prove this point. Our group of five Workhorses in this less-costly class range from the $13,799 Suzuki GSX-R1000 to the $16,490 BMW S1000RR. Three have traction [...]

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Street Smarts Superbikes all, but home is really on the road.

Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC

On the street, these nine superbikes are like caged animals, which is exactly why we took them to Miller Motorsports Park to feed. At a world-class racing venue, you can unlock their pens and let their predatory instincts take over. The reality, however, is that most people who purchase one of these potent machines will [...]

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Yoshimura Limited Edition GSX-R’s

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Yoshimura Press release: Yoshimura has been a leader among the road racing community since the inception of our sport. Whether it is the BSA’s and Triumph’s Pops grew famous for tuning in 1950′s Japan, or the technological marvels that own the track today, race winning motorcycles have been synonymous with Yoshimura for decades. Now, for [...]

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

Suzuki GSX-R1000 K5

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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Jardine Performance Products GP1-R Exhaust System – New Product Ideas

Jardine Performance Products GP1-R Exhaust System

The MotoGP-inspired, racetrack-ready GP1-R ($1099) is constructed of thin-wall 304 stainless steel for a weight savings of as much as 10 pounds compared to original-equipment sportbike exhaust systems, claims Jardine. What’s more, this high-flow, under-engine design is said to deliver noticeable power and torque gains throughout the rpm range and lower the center of gravity [...]

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World’s Coolest Bikes – Photo Gallery Photos from the April 2012 issue.

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