Model(s) covered: 2003 Ducati 749, 2003 Honda CBR 600 RR, 2003 Suzuki GSX-R 600, 2003 Yamaha YZF-R6, 2003 Kawasaki ZX-6R
There was a time not long ago when the middleweight sportbike class was a good place for newbies to cut their teeth. But for 2003, with quarter-miles times that would embarrass any supercar you'd care to mention, top speeds that reach upward of 160 miles per, and racetrack lap times that would scare a full-blown superbike from barely more than a decade ago, the bikes gathered here have limits that only the experienced can exploit.
Give credit to the weary-eyed engineers who have been staring at flickering CRTs and poring over reams of data.
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