SR Archive: Sizzling Hot Suzuki GSX-R750

Nothing has us standing on our seats screaming for our favorite brands like the AMA Pro roadracing ciruit, home to the most competitive national SuperSport and Superbike series in the world. If you’re a Suzuki fan, then you’re cheering o<$>n Yoshimura Team Suzuki and its signature blue-and-white GSX-R racebikes assembled here.

But what’s that stone-stock GSX-R750 doing there in the middle of such serious race equipment? We wanted to determine the performance numbers of not only Yoshimura’s Superbike and championship-winning SuperSport machines, but also to put their numbers into perspective against those of their showroom stock counterpart. We took an in-depth, stripped-down look at all three machines and then recorded elapsed times, trap speeds, lap times and terminal velocities. The results were interesting, even somewhat surprising. After all, Yoshimura’s ’94 SuperSport number-one plate-holder ain’t exactly a street bike, if you know what we mean.

This article was originally published in the 1996 February issue of Sport Rider.