For the last few weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to be riding this 2018 Suzuki GSX R1000. This is an amazing piece of kit I’ve got to know the bike quite well over that period of time. In this video what I’m gonna do is let you know the things that I’ve learned about the bike. If you’re interested in the GSX R1000 sportbike stick around stay tuned. I’ve been lucky enough to borrow this bike for the last couple of weeks from Suzuki UK. I’ve really got to understand a bit more about what bikes like in this video. I want to share those lessons that I’ve learned with you not just the positive things but the negative things too. Not all bikes are perfect and there one or two things about this bike that maybe aren’t so good as well as lots of positive things as well. One of the negative things but we’ll save that for later other things. I want to cover off on in the video and what it’s like in various scenarios. So what’s it like touring it like on fuel servicing costs. All that kind of thing we do a section on cost of ownership. I’ve got some insurance quotes to look at how much the thing costs to run over a year.
I want to do is go through my lists of the pros and cons of the bike one of the positives and the negatives that I’ve learned. So if you’re interested in the GSXR 1000 you’re going to want to stick around and stay tuned. I have to say pretty well there’s no terrible heat coming off the engine or anything like that. It’s a really hot day or I’m out on the bike today and I’m sat in traffic. I’m not feeling loads of heat emanating off the engine which is nice at low speeds there’s no horrible snatch on the throttle. For pretty impeccable manners it is of course a sports bike. You are on a sports bike crouch so your visibility through traffic is snot grapes.
It’s not allowed to go or overtaking other traffic and the word protection. As a standard of this screen is really good while wearing a closed face helmet. At the moment it’s the wind flow is absolutely clean off of it. There’s no annoying or none of that annoying turbulence. No need to replace that one it’s an absolute weapon in terms of its power and more ability to overtake traffic. Actually just make sure your right in so you’re not doing silly speeds. If you want to do big boils and faster roads like this Jill territory there’s no issue. It’s a comfortable bike in terms of the pipes go that grabs on its faster roads. It not an issue at all so how about day-to-day maintenance on the GSXR 1000?
Obviously it’s a chain-driven bike and there is no center stone sports box antenna understands. To oil a chain they’re gonna have to move the bike around and oil it. You have to get yourself something like an Abba stand or paddock standing at the back wheel off the deck. The other thing I noticed which is quite unusual is the tires. When you want to pop the tires up It is fitted with the valves that are the strike down type. They can be quite fiddly together unless you’ve got a pump that has a right angle connector.
A lot of manufacturers these days actually put right angle valves on which I personally prefer. Just be easy to get at the GSXR 1000 R doesn’t have that minor point but just something to be aware of. It’s just like any other bike stick to the maintenance make sure you replace the brakes and the tires when needed. Unfortunately, I don’t know how long they last were I haven’t had the bike long enough to have to replace them. I see no reason why this any harder to maintain than any other bike. I’ve been riding the big old GSXR according to the box computer at least forty-five point two miles per gallon. I’ve been riding the bike both relatively hard and in all its riding modes as well. In fact, there’s one more way to fill up now. It’s worth just mentioning the riding boats on he has three riding modes AB&C. The most aggressive and then seeing you gradually softening up in the usual way.
This is one of the few bikes I’ve riding where you can feel the difference in the riding modes. Definitely, in a mode, it feels the quickest the is throttles much more responsive. If you’re going to be gonna poodle round town and sell on the sticker and see for that and that works a treat. There’s a noticeable difference which is very nice and says hovering around the 45 miles per gallon. Regardless of how you ride it which seems well compared to cars. It is 4000 CC sports bikes I’m absolutely chef that Suzuki hasn’t gone down the keyless route. It’s got a normal spinner on which you actually use the key. I didn’t find keyless to be a bit of a well I’m not sure that it adds too much to ride a bike. Let’s put it like that just another thing to go wrong I’ve never had an issue using a key on any sort of engine before.
