The Everyday Sport Bike That Doesn't Feel Like A Compromise

Four decades on, that homologation-era DNA runs through the genre, which is why an "everyday sport bike" has always seemed like a contradiction rather than a category. And all this has to be achieved without unzipping the fairing that makes the thing a sport bike to begin with. The Suzuki GSX-8R Is The Everyday Sport Bike That Doesn't Feel Like A CompromiseSuzukiSuzuki built the GSX-8R on the same platform as the GSX-8S naked streetfighter, wrapping the identical 776cc parallel-twin in full sport bike bodywork designed as a visual nod to the GSX-R lineage. That shared foundation is important because a naked bike solves the ergonomic issues of a sport bike by placing the rider upright. While it maintains the sport bike look, it is smartly clamped above the triple clamp instead of below it, on the forks directly.