The Best Just Got Better
Since 2008 the Suzuki Hayabusa hardly got any upgrades, most of the changes were cosmetic, come to think of it its not easy to enhance an a great bike like the Hayabusa. For the 2013 model, Suzuki decided to make the Hatabusa a safer bike by upgrading its break system to ABS and replacing the front calipers with high performance Brembo mono block calipers.
The bike also got a new Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS) that enable the rider to choose from 3 different engine maps on the fly directly from the handle bar. The bike still lack traction control which leaves the reader fully recpocible for his actions.
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Suzuki GSX-R 1000 2013 One Million edition !
Suzuki unveiled yesterday GSX-R 1000 2013 1 Million edition, the bike has a new color scheme celebrating 25 years of production glory and the one million bikes produced from the GSX-R 1000 line.
I don’t see any changes in the bike other than the color, the numbered plaque and the 4 in 1 exhaust !
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VW Suzuki divorce
The partner ship between VW and Suzuki did not go well, and a couple of weeks back they decided to part.
The new Jetta ad is a nice way to add insult to injury.
Suspended
Suzuki has officially confirmed that it won’t particpating in the MotoGP for the next two years. but they will be back in 2014 with a 1000cc motorcycle. In a press release Suzuki stated :
“ This suspension is to cope with tough circumstances mainly caused by the prolonged recession in developed countries, a historical depreciation of Japanese Yen and repeated natural disasters. Having an eye to returning to MotoGP in 2014, Suzuki will now focus on developing a competitive new racing machine for that class. Suzuki will continue motocross racing activity and support of road racing activities using mass-produced motorcycles, by obtaining FIM homologation and co-operation with the supplier of its development racing kit parts.”
The financial problems and natural disasters Japan has been facing took its toll on Suzuki and other Japanese manufacturers, there was no significant changes in GSX-R line for almost the past 2-3 years ! Where as the European manufacturers -BMW & Ducati- has been very active with the development of new bikes.
The 2012 GSX-R 1000
The new Gixer now comes with a 4-2-1 exhaust system, 11% lighter pistons, Brembo Monobloc brakes, modified suspension compression and a brand new instrument panel. The bike wight is also 2kg less, but its still missing traction control.
Bike of the Year
This may sound a repetition of the previous post.
SWA -Supertest World Association- is an organization that runs the world biggest track test with motorcycle journalists from all around the world to compare the latest bikes in the market.
This year test took place in Greece, with the absence of Ducati, KTM and Bimota, the final ranking -based on lap times, dyno power and torque measurements, comfort, price/performance ratio- was as follows:
1-BMW S1000RR (with distinction)
2-APRILIA RSV4
3-MV AGUSTA F4 1000
4-KAWASAKI ZX-10R
5-SUZUKI GSX-R 1000
6-YAMAHA YZF R1
7-HONDA CBR1000RR
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Destination Greece
We were planing this trip of a while and were supposed to leave Kuwait back in July, but we had to postponed it hoping a couple of our friends will be able to join us, but unfortunately they couldn’t and we ended up only 2 -out of 4- me on my K1300R and my friend on his B-King
We left Kuwait Monday 9pm, reached Syria the next day around 5pm, we intended to stay only 2 days in Syria, rest the first day and ride around the next day.
We spent the first day at the pool, then went riding for around 5 hours between the villages in the mountains… we reached 950m elevation, we were literary over the clouds. Read more
Haslam triumph in Kyalami
In Race one Fabrizio on the Ducati took an early lead and was having fun and kept us amused with his slides in and out of corners, it was like watching a stunt rider performing high speed stunts.
Although Fabrizio won race one of the Kyalami round, but the real worrier was Haslam on the Suzuki…he was the star of race one and two, battling against the rookies -Rea- and the geezers -Biaggi- he manged to snatch race two from Rea at the last lap, it was a prertty intense fight.
Manufacturers standings : SUZUKI 222, APRILIA 213, DUCATI 185.
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