2022 Suzuki GSX-S1000GT+: 2,400 Street Miles + 25 Track Laps = Five Crazy Days!

2022 Suzuki GSX-S1000GT+: 2,400 Street Miles + 25 Track Laps = Five Crazy Days!

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Featured In the September 2022 issue of Roadracing World:

 

2022 GSX-S1000GT+: Suzuki’s Long-Haul Sport-Tourer (Excerpt)

By Michael Gougis

         “I should have been terrified, but being young and dumb blinds you to things. Case in point: Getting caught in a freezing rainstorm on the Grapevine, a mountain pass connecting Central and Southern California, coming back from one of my first long motorcycle rides. Soaked to the bone, riding a decrepit Honda CB550 with bald tires and a chain and sprocket well past their recycle-bin due date, I was riding on the shoulder, watching semi-trailer rigs splash and slide their way past on my left. There were plenty of ways to die in that moment, and I look back and just shake my head. 

        “I was thinking about that ride on my way to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Suzuki’s sport-touring 2022 GSX-S1000GT+. Getting caught in a downpour in downtown Portland during morning rush hour brought back those memories—the rain dumped down so hard that visibility was nearly nonexistent. I focused on the less-soaked tire tracks left behind by cars, aiming precisely at the center of the left tire’s narrow footprint and focusing on the taillights of the car ahead.

        “The reason I thought about that earlier ride was the difference between then and what I was experiencing at that moment in Portland…”

Editor at Large Michael Gougis rode the Suzuki GSX-S1000GT+ 1,200 miles each way from Los Angeles County to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and back, with a stop at Buttonwillow Raceway Park for an on-track riding impression from racer Jeremy Toye, in five crazy days. Read all about the journey in the latest issue of Roadracing World!

 

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