By 2006 the modern litre bike sector had come of age and was in full swing, redefining all that we knew, or thought we knew, about what a sportsbike is capable of. Suzuki itself had dropped the mighty GSX-R1000 K5 on the world a year earlier; a bike that, in a stroke, moved the goalposts out of sight of the other litre bikes, let alone the alternatives. Nothing less than 1000cc would do, and it’s pretty much stayed that way ever since.
However, in 2006 the mass exodus to the land of untold power and performance was far from complete, and Suzuki still saw a place in the world for its ‘best of both worlds’ 750cc take on the sportsbike formula. So, the already venerable GSX-R750 got a complete redesign from the ground up to bring it bang up-to-date and the best it could be. Suzuki invested heavily in the 750, essentially giving it equal status to the 1000 when it came to spending the R&D coin.
It began with the engine, making it much smaller than the previous model – 32mm shorter from top to bottom and 16mm narrower, not to mention 1kg lighter. The result of an engine with much smaller dimensions was that Suzuki had more options on where to position it and therefore more options on the architecture of the chassis. It got a massively oversquare bore and stroke at 70mm x 48.1mm,
