The GSX-R1000R has been announced to be discontinued.
Some people are disappointed that the GSX-R1000R is going out of business or that it is an act of abandoning the identity of an important brand, but that is why you should buy this final model now (if you can afford it).
Thank you GSX-R, you were great until the end.
Test ride and text by Noah Seren
Photography: Koichiro Suzuki
Cooperation: SUZUKI
Wear cooperation: Arai Helmet, KADOYA
Right decision
When the GSX-R 1000 series was launched in 2001, it was a revelation.
It had the performance to make its rivals obsolete, yet it was also inclusive enough to live up to the GSX-R name, and it attracted many riders with its supreme sportiness, both on the track and on the road.
I would venture to mention that one of the things that showed the world the performance of the first GSX-R1000 was the Ghost Rider, which raced at over 300 km/h on Stockholm's public roads. In that video, he repeatedly slithered through the streets on a pitch-black GSX-R, showing how fast a bike that anyone can buy for only a few hundred thousand yen can be! The video must have made riders around the world realize that a bike that can be bought by anyone for just a few hundred thousand yen can be so fast. The madness of the riders notwithstanding, the GSX-R is amazing! was imprinted on my mind as a young man.
Twenty-two years have already passed since then. The Internet is now in everyone's pocket, go-pros have become more sophisticated, and YouTube has become a business rather than a pastime. The Internet is now in everyone's pocket, GoPro's have become more sophisticated, YouTube has become a business rather than a pastime, and driver's recordings have become commonplace. Naturally, 22 years ago, outrageous behavior was not tolerated, but there was still a Showa-era trend of enjoying such behavior, and that is where the GSX-R and Ghost Rider fit in.
Since then, super sports have continued to develop ever higher performance, and 200 horsepower is now the norm. The ultimate sporting challenge was taken on, and the technology acquired from MotoGP was applied to evolve into machines that competed in Superbike and endurance championships, and ironically, riders began to drift away from the supersport vehicle. The irony is that riders began to drift away from the supersport vehicle, which, when run on public roads, could easily go over the edge regardless of the rider's intentions, and lost its place in a modern society that no longer has the Showa-era culture of enjoying such behavior.
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