Little by little, the 600's are getting closer to 750cc performance. The reality of it was that nobody could match Suzuki's 750cc bike performance. I would also like to see the other three Japanese makers come out with 750cc bikes.
Ken
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Little by little, the 600's are getting closer to 750cc performance. The reality of it was that nobody could match Suzuki's 750cc bike performance. I would also like to see the other three Japanese makers come out with 750cc bikes.
Ken
If you take the time period of say a decade ago as the height of the 750's, the current 600's are extremely close. if you go back 15-20 years, a current 600 would likely have any bike of that era for lunch on virtually any road.
If anyone can remember back to 1996 when the new GSXR750 an ZX-7R debuted, magazines went nuts over them, especially the Suzuki. They marvelled at how much power it had and how light it was. They talked about the great brakes and "expensive feeling" suspension. All for $9k.
For that same roughly $9k today (what inflation?), you could get the new CBR600 or ZX-6R. They produce within 10 horsepower of the 1996 750, and within 5 ft-lbs of torque. I would hazard to guess they also have better brakes and at least as good suspension. Not to mention being significantly lighter than the old "featherweight" GSXR750. And the sound of them at their 16k+ redlines is something even the works 750 race bikes couldn't match of the time.
It seems though that today a 750 is out of fashion, people either want a literbike or a 600. Suzuki basically ran everyone else out of the segment with their excellent GSXR750, although I would also suspect that if any real competition surfaced for it, Suzuki could turn up the performance of that bike even further. The problem it seems is in marketing, if you make a 750 with performance nearly equal to the company literbike, people will wonder why they should spend the extra $2k or so for the 1000. Staying within the same model year, there is enough separation between a 600 and a 1000 that the cheaper 600 stealing sales from the 1000 must not be as much of a problem.
I miss the 750cc era.
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