It turns out that middleweight sport bikes didn’t die. They just got boring.
To those of us bikers long in our years, one of the most glaring changes — besides the advent of 170-horsepower dirt bikes, electric scooters and the thankfully broadening appeal of biking to a wider audience — has been the demise of the middleweight supersports segment. Once a mainstay of motorcycling, 600s were, if not the ultimate in aspirational motorcycle, certainly the gateway to the 1000s that were. Motorcycle manufacturers spent oodles of time and money designing
