Team Classic Suzuki has pulled the wraps off its latest race bike project. A 1996 GSX-R750 SRAD built for future international classic racing events.It is built around a former factory endurance racer.
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The Team Classic Suzuki SRAD features a factory dry slipper-clutch. A lightweight generator, a magnesium offset sump, a close-ratio six-speed gearbox. And a factory Yoshimura exhaust system.
As always, suspension front and rear come courtesy of the experts at K-Tech. And there’s a longer swingarm for more stability. Earls’ Brembo callipers and brake lines provide the stopping power. With OZ lightweight wheels shod with Dunlop slicks.
Parts manufactured in-house include the triple clamps, footrests, fork lowers, and carbon kevlar bodywork. While the whole package is held together by high quality, lightweight titanium fasteners from RaceFasteners.
The bike will replace the team’s successful XR69 F1 bikes. Which have carried Michael Dunlop to Classic TT glory, at several events from 2022.
Raced by the likes of James Whitham and John Reynolds in World Superbikes and Chris Walker in BSB. The GSX-R750 SRAD epitomises 1990s sportsbike-obsessed Britain. In part thanks to its bulbous seat unit and now-iconic silhouette.
The ‘Gixxer’ became a commonplace sight at bike meets up and down the country.
The Team Classic Suzuki SRAD livery comes inspired by the Lucky Strike-sponsored endurance bike. It began life as a uniform more commonly associated with the RGV500s ridden by Kevin Schwantz in Grand Prix.
The bike will get its first shakedown at a two-day test at Cartagena with Michael Dunlop next week.
via Suzuki
