What the dyno saw of the dinosaur
Twenty-seven brake horsepower: it’s not much by any standards, but it’s all that my beloved DR600 churned out when I got it in 2014.
To give some equivalence to this number, it’s 18 less than Suzuki claimed in the original sales brochure, and also in the same rear wheel horsepower zone as Honda’s modern-day CBR250R; a bike so dull it makes even a wet sandwich seem like fun to eat.
To be fair to the DR, the riding experience wasn’t ever entirely anaemic, even though it had all this power missing. It’s always been fun to jump on, but I was surprised after a few weeks of owning it that it didn’t cope with any kind
