BLUE TERRIER
Rip out a few wheelies. Drop a rolling burnout or two. Set some lap times. Commute to work. It won’t do everything, but the new Suzuki GSX-S1000 will get your heart pumping, will function as exceptionally fun transportation and will do it all for a much lower price – just $17,290 ride away – than most hypernakeds today. And it’s also got a three-year warranty.
Indeed, you could buy one, get top-level suspension fitted, get some engine work done, and have a bike that could embarrass many a “premium” bike without coming close to their cost.
THE BIG UPDATE
Born in 2015, the GSX-S1000 was a good all-round machine with some unusual design choices – the styling for one, the handlebars for another. ARR said in our test of the older machine that we didn’t like the reach or bend of the ’bars and guess what, both criticisms have been addressed.
The new styling is radical to say the least, the ’bars are positioned better… essentially Suzuki has fixed a lot of things we didn’t like and left much of the rest alone.
THE DESIGN
Suzuki describes the machine as having “The Beauty of Naked Aggression”. Gone are the flowing lines and integrated bodywork of the
