Still doing the business. Alan De Lautours Suzuki RG500 XR14

Bruce S's road going RG500. Alan has a similar at home!

Another sound we should be hearing on the track shortly. The De Bros Suzuki TR250

Alan having a chat to his brother Paul after another track session

A lovely sight with sounds through the esses.

Coming into the esses

Since rekindling an interest in old two stroke bikes more than 10 years ago, the ultimate road bike for many has always been the Suzuki RG500. As a road bike and a racer it has developed a mystique that has seen them become some of the most expensive Japanese classic bikes you can buy. Alan has been racing and road riding them for the past forty years or more. In his younger days he was a very successful racer with New Zealand titles to his name, including a win in the New Zealand Castrol Six Hour. The XR14 he bought down to Manfield has been in regular race use since it was bought into New Zealand for Pat Hennen to ride in the Marlboro series in the seventies. It has certainly done many laps around Manfield, and Alan has just completed some mechanical work on it so it will do a few more. There is nothing like hearing the cackle from those four chambers as the bike makes its way through the esses! Long may we continue to hear that sound around our race tracks.