Suzuki’s relationship with trials has been interesting to say the least. Its early ventures into the sport were with a series of mini-bikes or modded road and trailsters before the RLs were introduced in the mid-Seventies. There were some excellent machines such as Alta and McClaren and Peter Gaunt’s conversion of a TS125. Actually Peter was involved in the Alta project too and the success of these little bikes has a lot to do with his mechanical and design ability. There were those who ridiculed these micro-trials bikes and one famous writer deemed them ‘clockwork mice’ yet Martin Lampkin – a rider known for wanting bigger engines and more power – kept his Alta
