Color me biased, but the middleweight segment’s clearly where it’s at—at least for motorcycles. The recent influx of bikes in the 650cc to 900cc segment is living proof of this, and hot damn, are there some really, really good bikes to go around.
One of these bikes is the Suzuki GSX-8R, a derivative of Suzuki’s new middleweight platform shared with the likes of the GSX-8S and V-Strom 800 models. And apart from being proof that Suzuki is in fact capable of bringing something new and exciting to the market, the new platform strengthens an already growing sportbike segment dominated by punchy parallel-twin engines.
