With a tyre-shredding 194bhp on tap and a fully revised chassis the original Hypersports bike is refusing to grow old gracefully. Hold on tight, because the 'Busa is back and is meaner than ever...
The Suzuki is pulling an act. Like the harmless Milk snake of the Canadian bush which looks like a lethal coral snake, thus scaring away potential predators, so the GSX650F is pretending for all the world that it’s a slightly dumpy GSX-R. And it jolly nearly gets away with it.
More power, less weight, and all wrapped in a GSX-R1000 looky-likey form. The 2006 Suzuki GSX-R600 K6 is bound to kick butt on-track - but can it deliver on the road?
I KNOW I’M NOT as young as I was. I run a ‘sensible’ car, my hair is starting to recede, and the passage of time seems to have been compressed somehow. But it really isn’t so long ago since the best sportsbikes were of 750cc capacity.
The bike that started off the whole GSX-R range way back in 1985 is still just as mad and bad as it was then, and the latest 2004 GSX-R750 K4-K5 model is, frankly, bloody brilliant.