Suzuki GSX
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British motorcyclist smashes three land speed records
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Steve Walton, 54, of Latchingdon, smashed three British Land Speed records at the weekend. The record-breaking rides took place at the British Land Speed Records meeting at Pendine Sands, a seven mile beach in South Wales. Steve broke two BLS records for the 1.5-mile sprint in the 1000cc and 1350cc classes, reaching the incredible top…
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Akula BMW/TVS 300 concept IS going into production – as the Apache RTR300
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Our friends at the excellent Rushlane website in India have dug up a great bike of info on the Akula 310 concept – the fully-faired sportbike based around BMW’s G310R naked (pictured below). The Apache RTR300 gets the G310R’s 34bhp liquid-cooled single-cylinder motor and a 6-speed gearbox. The best news is that the…
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Japanese magazine claims ‘Super Blade’ to appear in 2018 line-up
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Japanese motorcycle magazine YoungMachine has put a date on the Super Blade from Honda, saying that the uber-version of the bike will appear in 2018, a year after a suped-up version of the current Fireblade makes its debut. In the latest issue of the magazine, the lads in Japan say that the 2017 version of…
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VIDEO: Icon 1000’s Major Tom GSX-R special
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Check out this beautiful bit of film – it makes no sense and looks more like an arthouse movie than bike promo but boy do we like this sort of thing – and we reckon you will too. It’s a promo film for the Suzuki GSX-R special called Major Tom that’s been built by the…
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Suzuki UK releases Live Restoration video of GSX-R750F rebuild
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Suzuki has released this video of the company’s restoration of a GSX-R750F at last year’s Motorcycle Live show. The Japanese company took an old bike, stripped it and rebuilt it in front of showgoers. Suzuki did it as a drive to raise awareness of its Vintage Parts Programme which has made lots of parts available…
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Awesome hi-res pics of Lorenzo’s MotoGP 2016 machine
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Following on from the pictures of the Suzuki GSX-RR 2016 MotoGP bike, here’s some equally mega studio shots of the Yamaha YZR-M1. The 17 inch wheels, some minor cosmetics and more power look like part of a raft of changes to the bike for this year although the majority are more internal – like…
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SCOOP: Awesome hi-res Suzuki 2016 GSX-RR MotoGP bike studio pics emerge
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Lovely pictures of the Suzuki MotoGP bike have been released by Suzuki. The 2016 bike has a more chunky (read: stiffer) frame and revised air intakes on the fairing, the exhaust is longer and more upswept and there’s some subtle cosmetic tweaking with the bodywork. Other than that, the rest of the changes are largely…
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Suzuki GSX-R250 headed for Indian launch next February
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News is doing the rounds in Indonesia and elsewhere amongst asian markets this morning that Suzuki’s GSX-R250 will now be launched in India in February. The small sportster was widely expected to be launched at the recent Tokyo and Milan motorcycle shows. According to the inside information from the emerging markets the bike is now…
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This Weekend’s Stafford Show: Top Tips for the big do
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On Saturday and Sunday, October 17-18, some 30,000 motorcycle enthusiasts will head for Staffordshire County Showground. They come because it’s once again time for one of the world’s biggest classic bike events, and there’s so much to see and do, that two days probably isn’t enough. To help you make the most of it, here’s…
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SCOOP: Side on image of 2016 GSX-R1000R from Japanese journos
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We’ve been sent this – OK, not that good quality, but it’s the inside pages of that Suzuki GSX-R1000R article by Young Machine in Japan. Now, these are the Japanese journos and test riders who have a finger right on the pulse of Suzuki’s going on and this is what they say the new…
