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range. The GR is in prime bumping around town among the roving obstacles and mobile chicanes of city streets. It's quick, light steering and responsive low-end power make it a perfect urban trawler. The machine's good balance aids feet-up slaloming in stop-and-go traffic and maneuvering in tight quarters. This flat power curve has a few hiccups, all related to carburetion. Our Tempter's constant-vacuum units hesitated |
during on/off throttling, most frequently during gear shifting. Practice teaches the rider to minimize the stagger by making quick, snappy shifts and subtle throttle adjustments. Snapping the throttles open at low engine speeds causes the engine to balk. Around 5500 RPM another flat spot appears during subtle throttle variations. However, regardless of temperature, the engine starts quickly, and you can ride away with the engine cold. You'll feel no jerky quirks during those first |
few cold-running minutes, and the convenient thumb-operated choke lever on the handlebar facilitates adjustments. The GR's frame tube layout breaks from Suzuki tradition. Most Suzuki street machines use a single backbone intercepting the two smaller top members that run from the steering head as they curve down to meet the swing-arm pivot. In contrast, the GR's backbone bends down behind the cylinder, meeting two pivot/engine-mount tubes just above the swing-arm spindle. Two top | |
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