There’s been an ongoing debate regarding the rise of the sport bike. Some consider the 1969 Honda CB750 the world’s first superbike with its across-the-frame, in-line four-cylinder design. It was so wildly successful through the 1970s that by the decade’s end, bikes like it were so common they earned a bland, catch-all designation — the Universal Japanese Motorcycle (UJM). When precisely the next era of supersport bikes was born is still debated. Some argue Suzuki’s GSX-R750 primed the market in
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