Neil’s a sparky by trade. Who’d have thought it?
Thankfully, most test rides don’t start off by plugging a hole in a rad and spraying buckets of brake cleaner all over a heavily soiled (with coolant, that is) front tyre, but that was my intro to the GSX-S750.
This was one of my most anticipated bikes to cock a leg over, fuelled by the hype of its 2005 GSX-R750 derived motor. Thanks to the aforementioned factor though, there was little more I could do than grasp the magnitude of this bike’s lump, as I pussy-footed my way through the wide open Yorkshire Dales, painfully conscious that my front tyre offered about as much grip as a deep fried Mars bar… or at least for the first ten miles or so.