Everyone who has seen the video clip of the Suzuki GSX-R1000 converted to dirtbike spec roosting it up hard on gravel must surely love it ! Powerful bikes and gravel road blasting is awesome fun , but the sound of the Superbike-class inline four on the pipe with that roosting is phenomenal . This is exactly where my mind went when Suzuki NZ asked us to test their GSX-S1000GX - an all-new bike that looks kindalike an Adventure machine , but built using the heart of the legendary GSX-R1000 K5 . The reality is not quite the extreme gravelsuperbike I had hoped it might be , but that ’ s probably a good thing . Instead , the GSX- S1000GX is actually a sports-tourer with the comfortable , stretched out proportions and weather protection of an adventure bike , with the wide , sticky 17-inch rubber of a sports bike , riding on reasonably long travel suspension . Although there are more than enough niches in motorcycling , let ’ s call it a road-venture machine . So , this is a really a first ride of the bike in two parts . Editor Ben had the mission of riding the GX around Manfeild race track and , my mission , which I had chosen to accept in a Mission Impossible-style , was to ride the bike from