So flipping tempting

**SVboy** · 31st March 2015, 08:53

Originally Posted by Hitcher

If what I have been told by a Normally Reliable Source is correct, then pricing should do little to stop these selling by the container load.

Please tell us more.........I am hoping to really like these.

**pzkpfw** · 31st March 2015, 11:34

In a bang-for-bucks way, I'd expect an MT-09 to be my choice. This thing'll have to be well priced.

**SVboy** · 31st March 2015, 11:40

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

In a bang-for-bucks way, I'd expect an MT-09 to be my choice. This thing'll have to be well priced.

I would argue that the MT09 is a $14000 bike that costs $20000 in order to make it the bike it should have been. No doubt the Suzuki will have some cost cutting too, but I am hoping they havent gone too far-like the GSR750 for example.

**pzkpfw** · 31st March 2015, 12:20

Originally Posted by SVboy

I would argue that the MT09 is a $14000 bike that costs $20000 in order to make it the bike it should have been. No doubt the Suzuki will have some cost cutting too, but I am hoping they havent gone too far-like the GSR750 for example.

True, but "should have been" isn't the same as "needs to be".

For me, I'm sure the stock MT-09 would be fine. For others, maybe not.

**ducatilover** · 1st April 2015, 19:46

Originally Posted by pzkpfw

True, but "should have been" isn't the same as "needs to be".

For me, I'm sure the stock MT-09 would be fine. For others, maybe not.

I'll agree with that. It may not have all the tasty shit I'd expect it to have, but it is no doubt a fuckin' grouse machine.
But then again, I'm the retard building a no-torque screamer naked 600 with tasty bits. And then a 600 with no power at all and a bit of torque and not a single tasty suspension/brake/chassis component

**pzkpfw** · 8th April 2015, 21:33

No price yet, but up on Suzuki NZ site:

http://www.suzuki.co.nz/Motorcycle/Sport/GSX-S1000A/

http://www.suzuki.co.nz/Motorcycle/Sport/GSX-S1000FA/

The 2016 GSX-S1000A is powered by a street-tuned version of the four-stroke, liquid-cooled, DOHC, 999 cc, inline-four engine that became a legend in the 2005–2008 GSX-R1000. The newly honed engine delivers smooth throttle response and immediate, controlled acceleration, so the sport rider experiences adrenaline-rushing performance.

**EJK** · 8th April 2015, 21:37

Holy shit FA is ugly.

**ducatilover** · 8th April 2015, 21:49

Originally Posted by EJK

Holy shit FA is ugly.

Looks like a down syndrome DN-08 ran in to a stroke victim Diavel

**pzkpfw** · 3rd August 2015, 12:26

Prices now up on Suzuki.co.nz

GSX-S1000FA
$17,995 + ORC ( = GSX-R750 )

GSX-S1000A
$16,995 + ORC ( = in between GSX-R750 and GSX-R600)

... I'd have put Bandit price there too, for comparison, but it's fallen off their site.

(Edit: for the record, if my current bike wasn't worth a buck-fifty as a trade-in, it'd be the MT-09 for $13,999 I'd be looking at. But yeah, that GSX-S1000A seems a nice option ...)

**TheDemonLord** · 3rd August 2015, 13:17

I like the look of the FA - it looks like an Angry Eagle.

I'm going to organize a test ride for Shits and Giggles when it comes out.

**eelracing** · 3rd August 2015, 17:40

Browsing thru Brit bike mags and initial thoughts have it as 10 years to late and snatchy low end fueling...hamfisted track-oriented technopoofs to a man would describe most brit journos.
But not surprising when the majority of them worship Triumphs speed triples...which the S will eat alive torque-wise in comparative tests on real roads.

It's price is not perfect (should be cheaper)but is a hell of a lot of bike still.
I like it and am tempted...but might just wait for the 2016 GSX-R750???

**BMWST?** · 3rd August 2015, 21:29

Originally Posted by eelracing

Browsing thru Brit bike mags and initial thoughts have it as 10 years to late and snatchy low end fueling...hamfisted track-oriented technopoofs to a man would describe most brit journos.
But not surprising when the majority of them worship Triumphs speed triples...which the S will eat alive torque-wise in comparative tests on real roads.

It's price is not perfect (should be cheaper)but is a hell of a lot of bike still.
I like it and am tempted...but might just wait for the 2016 GSX-R750???

and it the unsung torque of the big bores that make em such weapons,even at lowish rpm

**Hitcher** · 4th August 2015, 08:54

Spotted a couple of these at the top of the Futa Pass between Bologna and Florence a month or so ago. Both tricked up with Renthal bars and after-market levers and mirrors. The blue looks very nice, which was a surprise as I was underwhelmed by that colour in online images.

The Futa was great fun on an FJR two-up with luggage. It would be the absolute shizz on one of these Suzukis, or even a Z1000, for that matter.