As far as most us knew, there used to be only male and female genders, with a few notable exceptions. And there used to be only 600cc four-cylinder Japanese sportbikes in Supersport racing. Oh how wrong we were… and we really don’t miss those simpler times. Now it’s a bit harder to keep track of the players, but that added complexity also has the potential to make things much more interesting. Unless you’re the guy charged with enforcing the rules, anyway. Let’s let MotoAmerica’s Sean Bice `splain it to us.

1 DAY AGO by Sean Bice

SUPERSPORT NEXT GENERATION: BOLDLY GOING WHERE NO 600CC SPORTBIKE HAS GONE BEFORE
It?s been well-documented that the Supersport race class has been in flux, globally, for the past couple of years. Despite the fact that the Supersport class has produced some of the most exciting races in the MotoAmerica Series over the past several years?from Garrett Gerloff?s, Valentin Debise?s, JD Beach?s, and Hayden Gillim?s epic battles of a few years ago, to Sean Dylan Kelly?s and Richie Escalante?s fierce skirmishes over the past couple of years, 600cc racing has continued to deliver the excitement at every MotoAmerica race weekend. Meanwhile, the OEMs such as Honda with its dear-departed CBR600RR and Yamaha with its ubiquitous YZF-R6 that was, for 2021, only produced as a limited-quantity, closed-course-competition racebike have led the way in the extinction of 600cc sportbikes. We?ve lamented this trend in more than on...