It turns out motorcycles can get onto your skin as well as under it. We heard about a Suzuki GSX1100 obsessive known as John Martin or FBJ, and considered it our duty to go and find out more. Starting out by discovering the root of his GSX obsession. “It all goes back to a trip […]
Building a Suzuki Katana to race at Spa
There’s never been a shortage of Suzuki Katana specials since the radical style of the GSX1100 first appeared in 1980. The factory themselves produced the GSX1000SZ in homologation quantities for superbike racing and a small number of specials to race in New Zealand and Australia. Meanwhile racers modified their own bikes for the grid and […]
Suzuki GSX1100 Special
Unlike a lot of motorcycles from the 1980s, it seems Suzuki GSX1100s generally avoid being restored to ball-achingly original specifications. This is a good thing, especially if you’ve never ridden a stock Suzuki GSX1100ET before. The original bike is blessed with weedy forks, a cart wheel sizes front hoops, and brakes that were never […]