Suzuki GSX-R

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Summary: Interesting for even an old dude
Review: 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.

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Summary: Fast Bikes, Fast Read
Review: 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!

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Summary: DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY
Review: 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.