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The 2020 Katana

It’s not every day you get to see a new 2020 Suzuki Katana for the first time, and it’s certainly not every day you get living legend and motojournalist extraordinaire Kevin Duke to take a photo of you standing next to it.  Yesterday was that day for me, and the photo you see above was a shot Kevin grabbed of yours truly with the new Katana.  I was visiting with the boys at CSC Motorcycles, Kevin was there, and he volunteered to let me take a ride on the Katana.  I took a pass on that, but when he asked me to pose with the bike, hey, I figured Suzuki needs all the help they can get.  Not that they need any from me.  The new Katana is a stunning motorcycle.  Visually arresting, I would call it.

We wrote about the 2020 Katana in our Dream Bikes series last year, and at that time, I mentioned that I owned one of the original Katanas in 1982.  Mine was Serial Number 241 of the first batch of 500 Suzuki built.

There’s 38 years between those two photos.   Wow, that’s a scary thought.  I think me and my good buddy Jack Daniel’s will have a talk about that later tonight.


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Joe Berk

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