It has been thirteen years since it received its last update, but the GSX-R750 remains as popular in the United States. So popular that Suzuki USA simply keeps it in the range, and that it accounts for more than half of the starting field of the MotoAmerica Supersport class.
There are plenty of reasons why the GSX-R750 has retained its place in Suzuki’s lineup after all these years. First of all, the nostalgia piece: the GSX-R750 is the motorcycle that started it all in 1986, and was responsible for what would become an unprecedentedly popular segment in five years.
In addition, the GSX-R750 is the best of both worlds: the agility of a 600 (the 750 largely shares the chassis of the 600), but with the power with which you made quite a splash in the one-liter class at the beginning of this century. .
What also speaks for the GSX-R750 is that, because it has not received any updates for 13 years, it is devoid of all the modern electronic signals that modern motorcycles are flooded with these days. This is still a pure super sport, with which you as a rider can still make a difference.
Well, it has the Suzuki Drive Mode Selector, which allows you to choose from 2 mappings, but that’s it. No traction control, no wheelie control, no slide assist, nothing. In fact, the GSX-R750 doesn’t even have ABS.
And let’s face it, the GSX-R750 is hard to see as it has been unchanged for 13 years, but in terms of styling it is still stunning. From the outside and when you have taken a seat, because it still has a wonderful old-school dashboard with analogue tachometer and a small LCD display with gear indicator and shift lights.
In Europe, the GSX-R750 (like the GSX-R600) was taken off the market in 2017 due to increasingly stringent Euro standards, as it was no longer profitable for Suzuki to invest in a segment that had been decimated since the credit crisis. And that’s a shame to say the least, we’re just plain jealous of the guys on the other side of the Atlantic.
Just imagine if we hadn’t had all that emissions bullshit here, then this GSX-R750 would still have been available here. And it would undoubtedly have scored well in the Supersport World Championship, just like in MotoAmerica, where 14 GSX-R750s are at the start, in a starting field with 24 riders.
And you know what’s worst? The 2025 GSX-R750 also has an old-school price of just $13,149 in the US. That’s €12,300 at the current dollar rate. Pfff…
– Thanks for information from Motorfreaks.