Suzuki GSX-8S

The Suzuki GSX-8S is a middleweight naked streetfighter that Suzuki Motor USA introduced for the 2023 model year as a brand-new design rather than a revision of an older bike. It is built around an all-new 776 cc parallel-twin engine with double overhead camshafts and a 270-degree crankshaft, which Suzuki says gives strong torque at low speed, and the engine carries the Cross Balancer system that Suzuki describes as the first of its type on a production motorcycle. The engine sits in a new steel frame with exposed seat rails, a lightweight aluminium swingarm and a 14 litre fuel tank. Rider aids come from the Suzuki Intelligent Ride System, which adds a three-mode drive mode selector and a four-mode traction control to a five-inch colour display. Suzuki presented the model as an approachable machine for a new generation of riders, and it became the base of the faired GSX-8R and the later GSX-8T family.