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Posts Tagged motorcycle review
Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R Motorcycle Review
There is nothing like a Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R. Riding position, styling, performance, handling, reputation no other two-wheeler gives the same overwhelming sensation of endless, immeasurable, gushing speed.
And Suzuki Hayabusa GSX1300R’s engine that stands proud: a monumental engineering gem that seamlessly blends manners and usability with enough ludicrous, undiluted performance to scramble your brain by halfway through the six clean-shifting gears. Third does everything: from mindless dawdling round town at 30mph, eyeing up yummy mummies to indicating 60mph at the test track and smearing the landscape into a three-year-old’s painting. Pointless? Definitely. But fantastically life-affirming a neat shot of the gloriously outrageous in our cotton wool world.
There’s such a deluge of drive even the ZZR feels lacking and the BMW peaky and harsh next to Suzuki’s transcendent long-stroke might. Power-to-weight wise it’s behind a GSX-R1000 or Fireblade but with vast torque anywhere in the rev range nothing gets near its fluid, instant clout. For most of us it brings a new meaning to effortless power. For those with Bruce’s feel and balance, it means 100 yard black lines out of every corner. And a new tyre within 1000 miles.
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Kawasaki ZX-10R Expert Motorcycle Review
The Kawasaki was my early favourite. It steers beautifully, holds a line, is agile in the chicanes and has a storming amount of power. If we had left all the bikes on standard suspension settings, there’s a good chance the Kawasaki could have taken the victory in this track test.
All the other bikes here are set up to be stable and reassuring on the road, with relatively soft set-ups and slow steering. It’s not until you adjust them – speed up the steering and stiffen them up that they become useful on the track.
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