Product Description

In 1985 Suzuki brought the technology from its championship-winning Grand Prix motorcycles to the street in the form of the groundbreaking GSX-R series. For decades the Japanese manufacturers had built sporting motorcycles that were all motor and very little else. For the complete package-bikes that handled as well on a racetrack as they handled in a straight-line drag race-riders had to purchase ultra expensive, ultra exotic machinery from European manufacturers. In one lightning strike Suzuki changed that. Suzuki GSX-R tells the complete story of these remarkable bikes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1073515 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780760317464
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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About the Author
Pittsburgh-based author Mike Seate is a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and author of the best-selling books Jesse James: The Man and his Machines, Choppers and Streetbike Extreme.

Customer Reviews

Fast Bikes, Fast Read
If you ride a motorcycle, you've no doubt been passed by one of the wickedly-fast, brightly-colored imported sportbikes. Mike Seate's history of Suzuki's GSX-R series explains in vivid, corner-blistering detail, how the whole world of race replica motorcycles came to be. It's easy to forget troday in the world of 160 horsepower Kawasaki ZX-10s and Ducati 999s that a few decades ago, anyone wanting a motorcycle offering the precise handling and gut-wrenching power of a race bike had to build it themselves at great expense. Suzuki, as this book lays out, changed all that by creating a fully-faired, sharp-handling motorcycle for the masses. There's plenty of cool factory drawings here as well as a highly detailed chronicle of the relentless technology race to keep the four-cylinder GSX-R family at the top of the highly competetive race replice heap. And if you haven't seen the shots of Daytona 200 winner Mat Mladin crashing and burning his machine at the 2001 Virginia International raceway meet, you haven't lived the Gixxer experience!

Interesting for even an old dude
I used to road race motorcycles and I have developed a deep respect for Suzuki's GSX-R series. This book treats the subject with the same respect. I am too old to ride bikes like this on the street, but I could see buying one as a track-day toy someday. Great book.

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
Rehashed text (from Suzuki brochures), amateurish and out-of-focus photos, a true waste of money. Two excellent alternatives: Suzuki GSX-R750 by Rob Simmonds and Suzuki Gsx-R750 by Gary Pinchin are the only books to buy.