You could say that the middleweight supersport segment is dead. Or, if that’s putting it too bluntly, you could say that it has at least evolved. These days, middleweight sportbikes like the Suzuki GSX-R600 and Yamaha YZF-R6 have been replaced by torquey twins like the Aprilia RS 660 and Suzuki GSX-8R.
Even iconic sportbikes like the Triumph Daytona 675R have been killed off, only very recently replaced with the watered-down Daytona 660. That said, we’ve been seeing a resurgence in high-performance, middleweight supersports from an unlikely source: China.
