Christmas in Southern California is a very strange thing - sunny, warm weather, sandy beaches and a mysterious absence of the flakey white stuff.

In the competition of being the most practical motorcycle in the world the Bandit 1250S would score very high.

Suzuki has come out swinging for the 2008 model year, unveiling a more powerful Hayabusa, the radical monster-motored B-King streetfighter, a sensible middleweight sportbike, variations of the muscle-cruiser M109R, and the fuel-injected RM-Z450 motocrosse

When I think of Suzuki motorcycles the first two models that instantly come to my mind are the GSX-R and SV-class motorcycles.

At Suzuki's 2009 model launch held in Paris an all-new GSX-R1000 K9 model was unveiled, alongside the new Gladius 650.