Celebrating the 25th anniversary of its popular gixxer range, the British division of Suzuki enjoyed a great deal of attention the past weekend at the Brands Hatch British Superbike Festival. Highlights of the show included Spanish MotoGP rider Alvaro Bautista and three-times BSB champ John Reynolds giving the crowd demonstration laps on the GSV-R800 MotoGP bikes.
Moreover, demo laps were also given by the Alstare World SBK duo Leon Haslam and Sylvain Guintoli on their GSX-R1000 machines.
Event-goers also got the chance to take a closer look at the Suzuki BSB historical display, including John Reynolds' championship winning Rizla Suzuki, Chris Walker's GSX-R750 and Tom Sykes' 2008 Rizla Suzuki.
"This weekend has been a dream come true. I got to ride the MotoGP bike and frankly it's unbelievable – I've never ridden anything like it my life. It's a noisy violent animal, yet it's surprisingly tractable, you can safely take to the edge of its tires but once you get it upright it goes from 8 to 18,000rpm in fractions of a second – it's just so quick!" stated triple BSB Champ, John Reynolds.
"It's been great to share in the GSX-R celebrations as well. The GSX-R means so much to me, both as a dealer because it transformed our business and personally as the GSX-R has given me so many amazing biking memories, even today I still ride my own GSX-R1000 regularly – I've done three or four track days already this year and in June I took it for my first lap of the Isle of Man TT circuit," added Rizla Suzuki MotoGP team manager Paul Denning.
Moreover, demo laps were also given by the Alstare World SBK duo Leon Haslam and Sylvain Guintoli on their GSX-R1000 machines.
Event-goers also got the chance to take a closer look at the Suzuki BSB historical display, including John Reynolds' championship winning Rizla Suzuki, Chris Walker's GSX-R750 and Tom Sykes' 2008 Rizla Suzuki.
"This weekend has been a dream come true. I got to ride the MotoGP bike and frankly it's unbelievable – I've never ridden anything like it my life. It's a noisy violent animal, yet it's surprisingly tractable, you can safely take to the edge of its tires but once you get it upright it goes from 8 to 18,000rpm in fractions of a second – it's just so quick!" stated triple BSB Champ, John Reynolds.
"It's been great to share in the GSX-R celebrations as well. The GSX-R means so much to me, both as a dealer because it transformed our business and personally as the GSX-R has given me so many amazing biking memories, even today I still ride my own GSX-R1000 regularly – I've done three or four track days already this year and in June I took it for my first lap of the Isle of Man TT circuit," added Rizla Suzuki MotoGP team manager Paul Denning.