Video: 2011 Suzuki GSX-R600 blows away rivals

Suzuki’s new GSX-R600 is finally at the top of the supersports tree, after years of playing second fiddle to the competition.     

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We took the new GSX-R600 and its rivals, which are unchanged for 2011, to fight it out on warm, sunny dry roads in the south of France. We also enlisted the help of 500cc Grand Prix winner Simon Crafar and MCN reader Paul Berryman to give their opinion.

Read the full test in this week’s MCN, on sale Wednesday 19 January.