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FIND YOUR SUZUKI TEST RIDE ONLINE

Suzuki GB has launched a new nationwide dealer demonstrator locator enabling customers to find the motorcycle they wish to test just by logging on to www.suzuki.co.uk

Available on Suzuki’s website with immediate effect, the new locator enables customers to search with ease, by simply inputting their postcode details and the bike they wish to test ride.

Talking about the locator, Suzuki GB national sales manager Paul de Lusignan commented, “The new locator finally takes away the hassle of finding the bike you want to try. By visiting our website, not only can you find the bike, but you can also contact the dealer by submitting a test ride request form too, making it easier than ever to try the Suzuki of your dreams.”

To find your nearest demonstrator, visit www.suzuki.co.uk/demo or access via the suzuki.co.uk homepage.

Suzuki GB PLC has announced a new limited colour option for the GSX-R1000 K8, now offering customers three colour varieties on the best selling sports bike of 2007.

Adding the new pearl white and metallic silver colour scheme to the existing blue and white and black options, the new variety is available in limited quantities with immediate effect at authorised dealers.

Suzuki GB marketing manager George Cheeseman commented, “Customer demand in the past has proven how popular the limited colour runs are, so we are pleased to be able to offer this addition to the already iconic GSX-R range.”

The new white colour scheme retails for the same recommended retail price of £8,949 on the road.

For more information on this or any other Suzuki model, visit your local authorised Suzuki dealer, log on to www.suzuki.co.uk, or call the Suzuki Contact Centre on 0845 850 8800.

A milestone for motorcycle safety, said FEMA President Hans Petter Strifeldt as he officially opened the World’s First Vision Zero Road for motorcycles along RV 32 in Telemark County in Norway 7 May 2008.

The motorcycle community has for a long time expressed serious concerns regarding the Vision Zero, the strategy in which road authorities have envisioned how to achieve zero deaths and zero serious injuries on the roads. The concerns are due to the vision depending primarily on bans and regulations instead of adaptation of the road environment to suit all road users - motorcyclists included.

But even if motorcycles have been viewed upon as high-risk road vehicles with regard to accidents, they have been all but excluded from the Vision Zero document. The Vision Zero document has first and foremost given anti-motorcycle campaigners an opening to propose a ban on motorcycles as these, they claim, are not compatible with a Vision Zero. But today, with the opening of this motorcycle friendly road, these claims have been effectively quashed, the FEMA President stated.

The Vision Zero Motorcycle Road is the brainchild of two passionate engineers at the regional Road Authorities, Jan Petter Lyng and Bjørn R. Kirste, who have successfully designed the road exactly as the motorcyclists themselves recommend. It is not much that is needed to make a motorcycle friendly road with regard to preventing injuries in case of accidents: Crash barriers fitted with a sub-rail, forgiving side terrain, well thought out placing of signposts, cutting down sight-hindering vegetation - all in all small modifications and investments that are beneficial for all road users, including bicycles and cars. The price tag for modifying these 15 kilometres of road is estimated to 630 000 euros.

The importance of this stretch of road in the middle of Norway cannot be overrated. It is the first Vision Zero Motorcycle road, not only in Norway, not only in Europe, but in the world. As the representative for Europe’s road riding motorcyclists, FEMA will do what it can to promote this road to other nation’s road authorities as an example of what is possible to achieve with relatively small means, FEMA President Hans Petter Strifeldt concluded.