Retro vibes wrapped around a modern machine. (Photos by Kevin Wing) Every now and then a motorcycle comes along and just hits you. Merely looking at it lights a fire in your heart and starts the I-gotta-have-it gears spinning in your head. The first bike to do that to me in a long while is Suzuki’s new GSX-8TT. The GSX-8TT is a contemporary UJM with a middleweight Twin, a smattering of electronics, and a user-friendly attitude. When Suzuki unveiled the GSX-8S at the EICMA show in November 2022, it struck me as a stylish middleweight naked bike, a modernized, larger-displacement version of the popular, long-running SV650 (which has been in Suzuki’s lineup in one form or another since 1999). The GSX-8S’s engine was an all-new 776cc parallel-Twin with a 270-degree firing order to give it a V-Twin character. That powerplant has become a versatile workhorse in Suzuki’s… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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