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Could the Supersport saga be answered by bigger bikes?
The World Supersport series is, and has been for decades, an absolutely belting source of truly exciting racing. And now in 2018, even though the series (and Supersport classes the world over) is having something of an identity crisis, it continues to provide regular thrills and spills.
The issue, of course, is the lack of new Supersport machines being manufactured. Aside from Yamaha’s ‘new’ R6 and MV Agusta’s upgraded F3 675, there hasn’t been another new Supersport bike since Triumph overhauled the Daytona a few years back. The R6 isn’t actually new per se, even if it looks very different, the bones of the 2006 machine still reside therein. But it is ‘new’ enough that most of theWSS top ten is filled with them. In fact, Luke Stapleford recently binned off his Triumph Daytona for an R6 prior to Donington – if you can’t beat ‘em…