Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Test Fleet: Suzuki GSX-S1000F

I’ve done a lot of road riding with my mate Steve Mort this year and as soon as he parked up his new Kawasaki Z1000SX alongside my Suzuki GSX-S1000F we realised how similar they are. This proved to be the case with performance as much as looks as we’d racked up a good few hundred miles on all kinds of roads in Cheshire, Northamptonshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. So after a couple of calls to our respective insurers we were free to swap bikes and see exactly how they stacked up against each other.

Both bikes are liquid-cooled inline fours, the 1043cc

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