STEINER USES TAUPO MX TO OPEN HIS ACCOUNT WITH SUZUKI

Bay of Plenty ’ s Tyler Steiner had a smile on his face a mile wide in Taupo ... almost as if he ’ d struck gold . And , in a way , he had done just that . Steiner was racing for the Tauranga Motorcycle Club team in the big annual Battle of the Clubs motocross event on a fresh , new , bright yellow Suzuki RM-Z450 . He was the only rider in the premier MX1 class racing the distinctive Suzuki and that was just fine with the 24-year-old from Te Puke . It meant his many fans would have no problem at all with tracking his progress around the track and that was generally seeing him in close battle with many of New Zealand ’ s motocross elite . The Battle of the Clubs motocross attracted six-rider teams from all parts of the country , the competition to raise funds for Team New Zealand ’ s potential assault on the Motocross of Nations ( MXoN ) on the other side of the world . The MXoN was last year staged near Chicago , in the United States , but this year that major event is returning to Ernee , in north-western France . But that was really just a side issue as far as Steiner was concerned . The talented rider on the No . 8 bike , a ranking