IT'S not unusual for manufacturers to support racers by offering discounted prices on new bikes and spare parts. However, for 2012, Suzuki are offering that bit more.You can now get yourself a GSX-R1000 handbuilt to Superstock or Superbike

RIZLA SUZUKI'S technology partner Blue Chip in conjunction with Connexions BDP has placed a GSX-R1000 race replica on eBay today in order to raise funds for the 521 youth project.The Rizla Suzuki replica normally retails at £9,949.00. The auction

. In other words: proper sportsbikes. And the pick of the crop were these three below, the 2005 GSX-R1000K5, Kawasaki's 2004 ZX-10R and Honda's sublime VTR1000 SP-2 from 2002.And the best news is that you can buy examples of these three bikes for easily under

gearbox that comes with a slipper clutch as standard. So don't let the look lure you into thinking it's only a small tweak, Yamaha has thoroughly gone over the R1 and repositioned its target - but more of that later.The GSX-R1000 has also enjoyed a major

AN AMERICAN racer riding a bog standard BMW S1000RR has trounced the current lap record set at a US racetrack on an AMA specification Suzuki GSX-R1000 superbike.Chris Peris rode the all-new 1000cc BMW at a motorcycle dealer's promotional event

'd approached first the R1, then the GSX-R1000... not a chance of securing it to either (although somehow Tim managed it with his GSX-R1000 last year), so I tried the Blade. Bungee points and fantastic pillion pegs with cut-outs for bungee hooks made it easy

to the job of getting the McRae adrenal glands pumping. Hence this machine. It's an exact copy of John Crawford's ETI Suzuki GSX-R1000 machine which he's been racing in British Superbikes this season."It all snowballed a bit, to be honest," admits McRae, 1995

the ulltimate test of the ultimate motorcycles. David Jefferies, Ian Lougher, Jim Hodson and John McGuiness were to race an R1, GSX-R1000, ZX-9R and FireBlade respectively at the TT this year.When the races were cancelled due to the hand to mouth crisis

You've got to admire the builder and driver of this GSX-R1000-engined Fiat 600.It may not be easy grafting one engine from one vehicle into another but it's even harder, once you've managed it, to make it stop, turn grip and handle like this car

OUR sources in Japan say that while the updates for Suzuki's 2011 GSX-R600 and 750 were fairly small and evolutionary, the changes its GSX-R1000 will get for the 2012 model year are more extensive.In fact, he said the bike will be “amazing