UPPING THE GAME Suzuki GSX-S1000
You know that sinking feeling in your stomach when you’re talking to someone who’s name you forgot, and you then have to somehow navigate your way through the conversation without needing to refer to said name? That was me the evening before the press launch for the “new” Suzuki GSX-S1000. During the technical presentation and subsequent socially distant drinks, I believe I managed to bluff my way through the entire evening without letting on that for the life of me I couldn’t remember what the outgoing GSX-S1000 looked like. No matter how hard I tried, there was nothing in my memory bank but emptiness where there should have been a visual of the old GSX-S. Nothing.
So, it is with a certain sense of smugness that after spending a day on the new GSX-S1000 and digesting all the information and all the miles on it, by far the biggest difference between it and the bike it replaces is…its appearance. Love it or hate it, it definitely makes a lasting visual impression that clearly the other one didn’t. I’m willing to bet that if you haven’t already, at some point before you reach the end of this report, you’ll Google a picture of last year’s bike just to check if it’s the one you’re thinking of, or -likeme-to see what it actually looks like.
So, the number one improvement the GSX-S needed above all else has been done:
