Hayabusa vs. GSXR-1000

[NinjaBoy]

Does anybody know why the Suzuki Hayabusa 1300 is £150 CHEAPER than the Suzuki GSXR1000, even though it has 300cc more and I would have thought would be seen as the top of the range bike?

https://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/model.asp?id=94 GSXR1000

https://www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/model.asp?id=21 Hayabusa 1300

See for yourselves
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[NinjaBoy]

[Gazdaman]

Agreed, they are /very/ different bikes.

You can't really compare them in terms of engine size and price. Gixxer 1000 handles amazingly, very very quick. The 'busa is more of a hyper-touring thing. Comfortable, yet still shockingly quick.

Doesn't handle very well though, not very badly, but certainly not well.

EDIT, and I'll think you'll find it's just supply and demand, more people want the gixxer thou, so they'll charge more for it. R&D is the expensive bit aswell, rather than the actual price of components.

Gaz

[bazza]

Because one is a performance bike and one is a big engine stuffed into a bucket of lard designed to be sold to accountants.

Hope that clears things up for ya.
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[G]

The 'Busa is also a GSXR, I believe.

The technology in the GSXR has come along a lot recently, while the busa hasn't really been developed - just getting hand me down new parts like radial calipers.

Not sure about the GSXR1000, but I believe the new ZX10 (depending on what day they were made probably) has a couple more hp than the Busa.
Maybe less midrange, but we're talking a 25% capacity hike and you get slightly less power, a lot heavier bike with worse handling that's designed to go in straight lines well, but that's about it.


The GSXR1000 is definitely top of the range as far as sports bikes go.
The Busa is sat in it own range, alone.

[NinjaBoy]

[V4]

Actually it's a GSX1300R not a GSXR1300

Much like a ZXR600 is not ZX6-R



Leon

[G]

[ram_doom]

The gsxr1000 is a totally modern design, with quality suspension etc. The Hyabusa is an old design. Correct me if I'm wrong but very little has changed over the original right? And it has less fancy chassis/suspension...
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[phk6]

[Johnny GSX-R]

It has nothing to do with technology.

The GIXXER 1000 is lighter and more agile than the BUSA but what do you mean by 'Technology'...... The BUSA is a totally different vehicle, a bit like comparing a Sports car to a Bently Continental.

One is designed to get you from UK --- Southern France, 2 up at an alarming rate and the Gixxer 1000 is designed to go around a track.

Totally different bikes, absolutely nothing in common with each other, not comparable in any way.

BAZZA, handling means very little as not many people can ride to the bikes limits anyway...You'd probably find Mr Average could ride a BUSA around the twisties as quick as a Gixxer 1000.... That is what i have found anyway.

[Johnny GSX-R]

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[bazza]

[Pete.]

The GSXR is fitted with better suspension, far better brakes, a higher-tuned engine and more sophisticated electronics and fuel injection. It also has more design put into it to stuff so much technology into such a compact package, has it's had more updates which require more testing and tooling.
That's one reason they are more expensive. The other is they are more desirable, and the higher demand commands higher retail prices.

The 'busa has changed hardly at all in 6 years. Back when it was released the biggest GSXR you could buy was the 750 - the 1000 wasn't invented. You can take the entire bodywork off a new hayabusa and fit it onto an original model, so long as you use the same front fairing bracket. The longer the production run the lower the cost of production.

Anyone who has ridden a 'busa will know that the bike's worst mechanical feature is the brakes. They really are very poor, due to a badly-sized master cylinder piston. The very least people do is fit decent pads, but many fit nissin calipers and master-cylinders.

[hairychipstic...]

the suspension on the busa is light years behind the 1000, it wasnt even all that good when it was released, cetainly not compared to r1's and blades of the day, so its poor by todays standard and i doubt you will find any1 else to say otherwise. brakes were always a noted weakpoint too
it is soft and with the big weight it makes it stable on bumpy roads, but if u push it you will soon run out of ability
great bike tho, huge engine, comfy, plush seat and great for distance
hugely tunable too if thats your thing
it figures that a full on sports bike with 7 years more development will have better suspension and brakes than a sports tourer no?

[LUXY DJ]

yea no doubt the gixer thou pisses all over the busa

different breed altogether!

busa is fastest in say a 10 mile race(JUST) but the gixer will be gone 1st & be quicker everywere else till about 180 odd

a busa is like a fast style harley

a gixer thou is just pure advanced technology

& its my next bike
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[Johnny GSX-R]

[LUXY DJ]

no none, but its a fat arse bike with a 1300 lump in it so its like a harley only faster


AKA LIKE A FAST HARLEY!

i could tell by your 1st post your feeling bitter cause you own a busa
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[Johnny GSX-R]

[LUXY DJ]

k fair enough but iv always said i dont like the look of them

but this isnt true

[Johnny GSX-R]

Yeh yeh yeh ok, its not designed for that specific run then Mr Pedantic.

Its purpose was to be a ballistic machine to beat the Blackbird and gain the Worlds Fastest Bike title, which it did, and which it still holds bacause the gentlemans agreement came out limiting all future machines to 186..
A Busa on test with Performance Bike mag hit 202mph on the radar but wasn't an official record.

The Gixxer 1000 is a Sports bike, the Busa isn't.
I don't like lightweight bikes hence i didn't buy one.
I do really like the look of the Gix1000 but we don't hit it off on the road.

[LUXY DJ]

this someones off gixerjunkies

& it aint a 1000 but WHAT A ARSE!


i mean how can ppl just not LOVE that sexy arse(deserves another drool)



(ok 2)

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/DJLUX/LUSHgixerarse.jpg
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[Johnny GSX-R]

Looks like its been 'rear ended' by a car... It looks like a ducks arse.........naaaaa, a standard Gixxer 1000 K6 arse end is cool, not that up-swept mallard anus.

[LUXY DJ]

lmao

not happy mr busa that arse is BUEATIFUL


ok ok some for you then....
(& if you do this to YOUR busa then id like the look of the busa )

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/DJLUX/LUSHBUSAgixerthou.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/DJLUX/lushbusa.jpg
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/DJLUX/300tyrebusa.jpg

so want that rear tyre on a gixer with that high arse
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