Build quality good, ok so not as posh as a Ducati, but comes in at 17.5 K. Some components are pretty standard run of the mill, like nissin calipers and master cylinders but work good anyway. Discs are half T drive. No heated grips or cruise control, but great suspension from Showa. I think it will appeal to buyers as it's price point is spot on for a great bike.
I think it looks great but I am a bit of a Suzuki fan anyway. Build quality on my 1000 k9 is good and still cleans up like new and they even use lacquer on the tanks unlike my 899 which is just paint.
Why don't Suzuki (or any of the Japanese manufacturers come to that) build a properly focused full fat supernaked version of their iconic sports bikes like Ducati and BMW do? No Japanese naked is "super". They're all watered down with their balls spinned. Yamaha came close with the MT10 but it was still some way behind the European competition and great bike though it is, it has fallen further behind since. I've never been a sports bike fan for road riding but I'd have a 180 bhp Gixer or Fireblade streetfighter like a shot if they made a proper one.
Sorry I forgot it’s a technophobe site… Why would you make a brake disc half t drive half bobbin the tooling and costs involved would be new unique and very expensive and for what benefit? Ask who else has done this and why not? Might as well of bought a job lot of proper t drive brembo been cheaper and far superior!
because once you add brembo ohlins marchesini etc it would be expensive… although like the brake discs they’ve replaced it with poor engineering !
I think people will pay if they get sports bike spec and tech with road riding usability. All the European manufacturers make full power supernakeds, all are very high spec and none of them are cheap (how much is a V4 SF?) but people buy them. I'm sure they'd pay similar sums to have their favourite Jap sports bike in the same top-league naked format. And it's not that difficult to do when you already have the proven sports bike platform to base it on. Triumph and KTM don't have that advantage. Their top flight big nakeds are ground-up new builds, but they're still competitive in terms of performance and price. In fact the Triumph Speed Triple is a bit of a bargain. The Jap naked roadsters are all good bikes (and I applaud Honda for making such an affordable naked as the Hornet, despite its compromises), but I bet that if there was a 180 bhp Gixer streetfighter at £18 grand it would sell. And it wouldn't be a ground-up new design like a Superduke of or a Speedie, just a specced-up hot version of what they're building already.
going by the dictionary entry of "technophobe" Bless you, you don't know me very well. no, I simply enquired for more details, because using your kind of language, your post was as clear as shite. Anyway, looks like I made a lucky guess with the arrow.
It is odd now you point it out. Brembo make both T drive and bobbin discs. Use one or the other. Why a one-off hybrid combining the two?
Ignore the Ducati snobbery. It’s going to be a great bike for a fair price. Oh, and by the way, the discs are identical to those on the first release of the gsxr1000r from c2018 so it’s hardly breaking news.
Why cos I don’t agree with you and can point out technical misgivings? yesterdays tech at tomorrows prices!
