In this installment of "This Week's Suzuki Hayabusa Rumor," we again take a look at the motor of this venerable sport bike. The rumor going around the interwebs right now is that the 2019 Suzuki Hayabusa will feature a "semi-automatic" gearbox. Side-stepping the part where saying a gearbox is semi-automatic is a lot like saying someone is "semi-pregnant" (you either are, or aren't), the rumor stems from a patent filed by Suzuki that shows a gear-shifting mechanism with the foot-shifter that doesn't require a clutch. If this sounds a lot like an up/down quickshifter system, then you score extra bonus points today for being a rational human being, but you would be very wrong about what this whole rumor should actually be about.
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