FEATURE SUPERSPORT IS BACK
On the basis that the Triumph Street Triple 765 Moto2 is in all but name and fairing a modern-day supersport bike, and with Kawasaki announcing the reintroduction of the ZX-6R to its range alongside the all-new ZXR400RR, it got me thinking if we are witnessing the rebirth of what was once by far the single most popular genre of sportsbikes. Where Triumph has erred on the side of caution by using Moto2 stickers to identify the Street Triple as a supersport bike, instead of a fairing for fear of putting off punters, Kawasaki has gone all in and fully faired its two bikes and painted them a shouty green. It's impossible to overstate just how significant the move is by Triumph and Kawasaki to be dipping their toes into the supersport market – a sector that was dead and buried only a handful of years ago.
Why does it matter? First, it's important to do two things: understand why the supersport market matters, and why it died. At the risk of sounding like the old fart I am, back when I was a yoof cutting my teeth on the local roads on
