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The GSX-R Family

Like a Mafioso crime family the GSX-R clan has forced a place in biking society through aggression and intimidation. With two new members introduced this year we gather the family together for a reunion

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Posted: 10 November 2004
by Jon Urry

Four letters, that's all. Four consonants that, if Carol Vorderman had picked them out and placed them on the Countdown board, even the maddeningly squirmworthy Richard Whiteley wouldn't have uttered a mundane comment about. G, S, X and R. On the face of it they don't look like much.

But put them together, add a hyphen, and you have something special, something magical and something very, very naughty. The four most recognisable letters in motorcycling and a cult unto themselves. In 1985 the world was introduced to these four letters. It would never be the same again.



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