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TALK TRIALS TONI BOU
CHAMPION Riding back from the final hazard in Great Britain I had a little smile to
myself as I reflected on what had just happened. In a low-scoring event I had just made one my best fightbacks to claim a victory as I passed through the ends cards on section fifteen; yes it went all the way to the wire. It was pressure all the way after a strict five-mark penalty was awarded against me on the first lap. I accepted it and moved on, and that’s been the story of my career. You cannot look back on what’s happened the focus must always remain on the future. The champagne was a good reminder though of what I had just achieved! WORDS: TONI BOU WITH JOHN HULME • PICTURES: TRIALS MEDIA
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his year has been very difficult in the fact that injury has interrupted it so much. Firstly with my back when I crashed at the beginning of the year and then with my knee injury in Belgium. I went to bed in Belgium and my knee swelled up like a balloon. The qualification problems had given me quite an early start position but in my mind I decided that if I could ride I could challenge for the win. The team around me checked the knee out on Sunday morning and strapped it up to avoid further damage. Going to the practice area I was still not sure I could start the competition. Once on the machine I felt uncomfortable but that was all. The team is the best motivation I could ask for and we all decided to give it a go. As it turned out the early start position did not bother me. The focus was going forward and the team was rewarded with the win. I could not change the knee injury and so it was dealt with, and the outcome was a positive one. This was the same with the five-mark penalty in Great Britain. The crowd support was superb and I wanted to put on a good show. With some great riding from Miquel Gelabert and then pressure from Adam Raga I was very happy to win! World title number 24 was in the bag. ‘Can I keep winning’ is a constant question and one I am always happy to answer. I am the man, and the machine is the team around me. They want to win as much as I do and for the professional way they all embrace this situation I cannot thank them all enough. For my family, friends and fans I thank you all for the journey. The past is recorded in the history books and now I once again look to the future. Thank you to everyone. Until Next Time – Ride On! – Toni
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Toni Bou (Repsol Honda-ESP)
Trial World Championships: the best, the calm and the surprises
Wow! What a championship season! Bou continues to dominate but after some strange observing decisions we find Matteo Grattarola taking the Trial2 title at the final section in Italy. The calm and collected Billy Green was a very worthy Trial125 World Champion who took it all in his stride. WORDS AND PICTURES: TRIALS MEDIA
2018 TRIALGP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP We have to ask the ongoing question: who can stop Toni Bou? With seven wins from the nine in the championship, Japan was a double points-scoring day; he has once again demonstrated the will to win over his rivals despite some injury problems during the season. Who would like to bet him once again dominating in 2019 — we certainly would not!
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Toni Bou (Repsol Honda-ESP) 170; 2: Jeroni
Fajardo (Gas Gas-ESP) 132; 3: Adam Raga (TRRS-ESP) 129; 4: Jamie Busto (Gas Gas-ESP) 124; 5: Albert Cabestany (Beta-ESP) 102; 6: Takahisa Fujinami (Repsol Honda-JPN) 91; 7: James Dabill (Beta-GBR) 79; 8: Jorge Casales (Vertigo-ESP) 73; 9: Miquel Gelabert (Sherco-ESP) 70; 10: Jack Price (Gas Gas-GBR) 52; 11: Benoit Bincaz (Scorpa-FRA) 41; 12: Franz Kadlec (Gas GasGER) 38; 13: Oriol Noguera (Jotagas-ESP) 34; 14: Alexandre Ferrer (ShercoFRA) 15; 15: Kenichi Kuroyama (Yamaha-JPN) 9.
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2018 TRIAL125 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP This is a class which has shown that championships can be won with consistency. Never one to doubt his own ability, but without becoming arrogant, Great Britain’s Billy Green has mixed education with trials riding to become a very worthy first Trial125 World Champion with four wins from six starts.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Billy Green (Beta-GBR) 106; 2: Martin Riobo (Gas Gas-ESP) 93; 3: Pablo Suarez (Gas Gas-ESP) 83; 4: Eric Miquel (TRRS-ESP) 77; 5: Hugo Defrese (Gas Gas-FRA) 71; 6: Arthur Rovery (Sherco-FRA) 65; 7: Fabien Poirot (Gas Gas-FRA) 51; 8: Vold Gunvaldsen (TRRS-NOR) 44; 9: Carloalberto Rabino (Beta-ITA) 43; 10: Pau Martinez (Gas Gas-ESP) 39; 11: Marco Mempoer (Beta-AUS) 36; 12: Julien Camas (Gas Gas-FRA) 21; 13: Rodrigo Marchal (Beta-ESP) 30; 14: Clemens Mitteregger (Beta-AUT) 11; 15: Pol Medinya (Beta-ESP) 8; 16: Ben Dignan (Gas Gas-GBR) 8; 18: Jake Eley (Beta-GBR) 4; 19: Andrew Eley (Beta-GBR) 1
From left: Toby Martyn (Montesa-GBR), Matteo Grattarola (Honda-ITA) and Gabriel Macelli (Montesa-ESP)
2018 TRIAL2 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP This class has seen a four-stroke domination the like of which we haven’t seen since the draconian days around the early sixties. The four-stroke Cota 300RR in the hands of the world champion Matteo Grattarola from Italy, Toby Martyn from Great Britain and Spain’s Gabrielle Marcelli have all, bar one event, filled the championship table. The only two-stroke win has come from Great Britain’s Dan Peace on the Gas Gas.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Matteo Grattarola (Honda-ITA) 147; 2: Toby Martyn
(Montesa-GBR) 147; 3: Gabriel Marcelli (Montesa-ESP) 131; 4: Dan Peace (Gas Gas-GBR) 102; 5: Jack Peace (Gas Gas-GBR) 99; 6: Francesc Moret (MontesaESP) 87; 7: Luca Petrella (TRRS-ITA) 73; 8: Aniol Gelabert (Scorpa-ESP) 61; 9: Marc Riba (TRRS-ESP) 58; 10: Lorenzo Gandola (Scorpa-ITA) 53; 11: Hakon Pedersen (Gas Gas-NOR) 51; 12: Sondre Haga (TRRS-NOR) 32; 13: Pietro Petrangeli (Sherco-ITA) 28; 13: Matteo Poli (Vertigo-ITA) 24; 14: Loris Gubian (Gas Gas-FRA) 23.
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Montesa: 2018 FIM Manufactures World Champion
2018 MANUFACTURERS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP For 2018 it’s the highest placed rider in each class that decides the manufacturers’ points calculations from TrialGP and Trial2, and Montesa have taken the title with a clear advantage over their rivals.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Montesa 331; 2: Gas 272; 3: TRRS 214; 4: Honda
152; 5: Beta 132; 6: Scorpa 122; 7: Vertigo 109; 8: Sherco 99; 9: Jotagas 34; 10: Yamaha 10.
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Gubian's GasGas
TrialE-lation The adult sector of the new generation of battery-powered trials motorcycles has been slow to take off. Without a doubt OSET led the way in the youth class with its model range, but it’s the innovation of the new Gas Gas TXTE model that has taken them to the two TrialE Championships in 2017 and 2018. Using the bottom half of their hugely successful two-stroke trials model’s diaphragm, clutch and gearbox paired to an electric motor and battery it appears to be leading the race to go into production, something that was confirmed after Gubian took victory. Despite the mighty efforts of the huge Yamaha research and development programme behind it the Japanese manufacturer was pushed into second position after Belgium. It’s a very short, two-round FIM series, and with Yamaha rider Kenichi Kuroyama winning round one in France and Loris Gubian round two in Belgium on the Gas Gas the French rider won as the rule book states that in the event of a tie with two individual round winners the second round is the decider – ‘Vive le France’ ARTICLE: TRIAL MAGAZINE
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Take nothing away from Yamaha on its welcome return to world trials and Japan’s Kenichi Kuroyama. The manufacturer may have been away for a while but we all remember what happened when they did the same thing and came back in 1983 with the mono-shock Yamaha! OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2018 • TRIAL MAGAZINE
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2018 TRIALE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Yamaha were out in force for round two as they focussed on their very first FIM Trial World Championship trophy, having won round one. The narrow streets around the market town of Comblain Au Pont in Belgium were full of the factory support trucks, including a huge presence from Yamaha which gave some added excitement to the deciding round.
Qualifying
Looking like a new era Mecatecno using the colour scheme from the eighties ‘Dragonfly’ model, Spain’s Joan Cordon made the podium in Belgium. Christophe Bruand finished third in the two-round championship competition and headed home the other Electric Motion machines ridden by Bastian Hieyte, Jerome Delair and Japan’s Takumi Narita who struggled with an old back injury he carries from his world championship days.
After his disaster in the qualifying for round one in France, where he parted with a five-mark penalty to put him at the head of the field to ride the hazards first in the trial, the eventual world champion Loris Gubian was put under more pressure in Belgium. Played out in hot conditions, the qualifying section was held in the middle of the market square on a rock-filled man-made hazard. He was the third fastest in Qualifying One behind Christophe Bruand and Kenichi Kuroyama as he parted with one mark. When it all mattered in Qualifying Two to decide the start positions for the trial the following day it was once again Kuroyama who took the Jitsie ‘Hot Seat’ for the quickest time, but Gubian was just two seconds down to follow the Japanese rider home.
FASTEST: 1: Kenichi Kuroyama (Yamaha-JPN) 36.85; 2: Loris
Gubian (Gas Gas-FRA) 38.70; 3: Christophe Bruand (Electric Motion-FRA) 43.86; 4: Takumi Narita (Electric Motion-JPN) 50.32; 5: Joan Cordon (Mecatecno-ESP) 55.82 + 3; 6: David Oliver Blasco (On Racing TrialE-ESP) 5; 7: Jerome Delair (Electric Motion-FRA) 5; 8: Bastien Hieyte (Electric Motion-FRA) 5.
Wide Open It was always going to be a tense battle of nerves between the two world class riders Kenichi Kuroyama and Loris Gubian. Could the Japanese come to Europe and walk away with the world championship from under the nose of Gas Gas? As early as the second hazard it looked like Kuroyama was in trouble with a ‘Feet-Up’ five mark penalty as Gubian used his vast experience to part with just four single marks around the 15 hazards. Big rocks and steep climbs were put in front of the electric machines but the two very talented riders continued to amaze the watching crowds with the ‘silent’ machines, looking very impressive as they were head and shoulders above the rest of the entry. Kuroyama parted with just two more to leave the opening lap scores at four and seven in favour of the French rider.
So Close On the second lap it was the turn of Gubian to have a ‘Feet-Up’ five for stopping on the very first hazard. Would he crack under the pressure? As he watched Kuroyama fail the second hazard on the second lap he knew that all he had to do was ride conservatively and the title was his. They both parted with a single mark on the sixth hazard and, despite the pressure they were both feeling, they completed the lap losing no more and the title was going to Gas Gas and Gubian by three marks. With a relatively small entry and only two rounds in 2018 let’s hope that the other manufacturers take note and that in 2019 we will see more rounds and more manufacturers involved.
RESULTS: 1: Loris Gubian (Gas Gas-FRA) 10; 2: Kenichi
Kuroyama (Yamaha-JPN) 13; 3: Joan Cordon (Mecatecno-ESP) 28; 4: Christophe Bruand (Electric Motion-FRA) 37; 5: Takumi Narita (Electric Motion-JPN) 39; 6: David Oliver Blasco (On Racing TrialE-ESP) 82; 7: Bastien Hieyte (Electric Motion-FRA) 83; 8: Jerome Delair (Electric Motion-FRA) 98.
2018 TRIALE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POSITIONS: 1: Loris Gubian
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(Gas Gas-FRA) 37; 2: Kenichi Kuroyama (Yamaha-JPN) 37; 3: Christophe Bruand (Electric Motion-FRA) 28; 4: Joan Cordon (Mecatecno-ESP) 24; 5: Bastien Hieyte (Electric Motion-FRA) 22; 6: David Oliver Blasco (On Racing TrialE-ESP) 20; 7: Jerome Delair (Electric Motion-FRA) 19; 8: Takumi Narita (Electric Motion-JPN) 11.
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JERONI FAJARDO
ENJOYING
LIFE Life is very much about times and places, and this is highly evident in any form of sport. Just take a look at just how many motorcycle riders have undoubted talent, who have been overshadowed by other riders who kept them away from the top spot of the sport as a world champion. The Trial World Championship is no different as we have seen two riders dominate the series since Adam Raga won world titles in 2005 and 2006 before Toni Bou controlled the world championship until the present day. Spain’s Jeroni Fajardo arrived on the international trials scene in 2002, winning the FIM European Championship title. In the same year, he started to compete in the world championship, scoring his first points in America for Gas Gas. Over the next 16 years, he would be a constant thorn in the side of his fellow competitors as he battled for the top spot in the sport. Two world round wins came his way, but he has very much been a man in the shadow of the top two. Showing some of his best form in 2018, we decided it was time to have a chat with the man himself, who appears to be enjoying life to the full. WORDS: JOHN HULME WITH JERONI FAJARDO • PICTURES:
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INTERVIEW JERONI FAJARDO
2018: Taking the win on day one in Japan – the perfect day arrived!
Your 2018 Trial World Championship season has been one of your best, can you explain why?
The move back to Gas Gas was like coming home, as it was with that team that I first moved into the world championship back in 2002. It’s like a family to which I belong. Also, the machine is so, so good. Every time I get on the Gas Gas, my passion and competitive levels go up to another level. It’s a strange sensation but, in my heart, I feel as though I want to always, at every event, give them my very best — which works well for the team. I witnessed the win in Japan on day one; that was some ride.
You know, sometimes you wake up in the morning, and you just know it’s going to be a good day. Well that was Japan on day one. Qualifying had been very disappointing as you are penalised so heavily for even the smallest of mistakes. It may be a slow time, or maybe losing marks, but the pressure to perform in such a short space of time is so intense. With the slowest time, I was the first rider away from the start on day one. I decided to ride my own event; I rode every hazard first on the opening lap. After the first few hazards I felt really good and, with this, confidence. I completed the opening lap parting with no marks! I rode the second lap very much knowing that everyone else was under pressure to catch me up. Everyone in the team worked so well and, with it, the result came, which was the reward to Gas Gas for having faith in me when I joined the team for 2018.
That incredible feeling when you are on top of the world – Japan 2018.
The 2018 Gas Gas team had a mix of both youth, with Jaime Busto, and experience with yourself.
Yes, it is, shall we say, quite an interesting combination of the two: youth and experience. Jaime wants to win at everything, full stop. Such is his competitive level (his life is 100% based around enjoying himself on a motorcycle and I understand this), he is young and ambitious and it’s good to see him starting out in his trials career at the very top. On the other hand, I have a family and two young children and my life is much calmer than that of TRIAL MAGAZINE • OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2018
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TWO MINUTES TOBY MARTYN
A four-stroke high five – so close We take a look at Toby Martyn’s 2018 Trial2 season in his own words. WORDS: TRIALS MEDIA WITH TOBY MARTYN • PICTURES: TRIALS MEDIA
ROUND 2: TWO DAY COMPETITION MOTEGI, JAPAN DAY ONE: QUALIFYING 1: 4TH, QUALIFYING 2: 5TH, RESULT: 1ST Motegi Japan is, in my mind, one of the top venues to have in the calendar because it’s so different to every other venue. The trial on Saturday was set to be a scorcher; I went clean on the first six sections and after a dab in section seven I went on to clean the next four sections. I started the second lap very strong and was riding confidently, which meant we could put lap one behind us and start new. On reaching the end with a steady score, in my mind I was feeling like I could have saved a lot more marks. Getting to that scoreboard at the finish and seeing my name placed on top was a feeling I could never explain. Definitely a result to remember being it was my 18th birthday as well!
RESULTS: 1: MARTYN 11; 2: Grattarola 12; 3: D Peace 12; 4: Marcelli 20; 5: J Peace 21.
CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Grattarola 37; 2: MARTYN 33; 3: J Peace 28; 4: D Peace 23; 5: Marcelli 22.
ROUND 1: CAMPRODON, SPAIN QUALIFYING 1: 3RD, QUALIFYING 2: 3RD, RESULT: 4TH My first lap was steady, it took me a bit of time to get into it and get a few sections out the way but we put in some good rides. Then the second lap started with a bit of a disaster as the rain came and changed the sections for the worse; as I was at the back of the pack it really affected the first few hazards, which cost me a couple of fives. This in turn cost me getting on the podium, which was not the result we wanted!
RESULTS: 1: Grattarola 13; 2: J Peace 27; 3: Gubian 31; 4: MARTYN 35; 5: Gelabert 36. CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Grattarola 20; 2: J Peace 17; 3: Gubian 15; 4: MARTYN 13; 5: Gelabert 11. 62
DAY TWO: RESULT: 3RD Trying to sleep the night after winning was hard, I was still full of excitement but we knew we had a championship to fight for. They made a few small changes to the sections making them harder after day one, but I still felt confident. The opening lap went well but I still had a few too many small mistakes, but we still placed in the top three. Then the second lap started good and we kept it consistent and the fives to a minimum, which meant we could finish on the last step of the podium but unfortunately we dropped to third in the championship.
RESULTS: 1: Grattarola 5; 2: Marcelli 11; 3: MARTYN 13; 4: D Peace 16; 5: Riba 16.
CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Grattarola 57; 2: Marcelli 49; 3: MARTYN 48; D Peace 36; 5: Moret 31.
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ROUND 3: SANT JULIA, ANDORRA QUALIFYING 1: 24TH, QUALIFYING 2: 6TH, RESULT: 5TH Andorra this year was a round to forget for me. The trial was one of those days where your head had to be in the right place, I had a strong first lap putting me around the podium. I then went into the second lap feeling good, I started strong with a couple of small mistakes but had a slack five in one of the penultimate sections. To finish my day off I went and slipped off a log and fived the last section of the day finishing in 5th, but I moved into second in the championship.
RESULTS: 1: Grattarola 2; 2: Marcelli 7; 3:
J Peace 13; 5: Moret 15; 5: MARTYN 19.
CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Grattarola 77; 2:
MARTYN 59; 3: Marcelli 56; 4: J Peace 44; 5: Moret 44.
ROUND 4: GOUVEIA, PORTUGAL QUALIFYING 1: 5TH, QUALIFYING 2: 2ND, RESULT: 4TH Set to be the hottest GP it certainly didn’t disappoint, being around 30 degrees-plus all weekend. The first lap on the Sunday started well with one silly five, but I put that to one side and made sure my other mistakes were not as drastic. On the second lap I kept away from the silly fives but too many slack dabs kept me off the podium; it was damage limitation in terms of the result but it meant we were still in a really good position in the championship.
RESULTS: 1: Dan Peace 13; 2: Gelabert 16; 3: Marcelli 17; 4: MARTYN 19; 5: Gandola 21.
CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Grattarola 83; 2: MARTYN 72; 3: Marcelli 71; 4: D Peace 60; 5: Moret 54.
ROUND 5: AURON, FRANCE QUALIFYING 1: 1ST, QUALIFYING 2: 2ND, RESULT: 1ST Another high-altitude event on the calendar but it was set to be an awesome weekend. An easy trial meant I had to keep my concentration all day; I cleaned the first seven sections then had a few low-risk dabs in the next couple of sections but it kept me in the running, ending in joint second. The second lap started the same but I then went on to clean the first eight sections and this put me in with a chance of clinching the win, then a few safe marks in the middle of the lap and a strong finish meant we could take a very important win in Auron.
RESULTS: 1: MARTYN 6; 2: Marcelli 8; 3: J Peace 8; 4: D Peace 9; 5: Gelabert 11.
CHAMPIONSHIP: 1: Grattarola 93; 2: MARTYN 92; 3: Marcelli 88; 4: D Peace 73; 5: J Peace 67. TRIAL MAGAZINE • OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2018
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IT'S COMING HOME RENTHAL
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In safe hands When the news arrived at Trial Magazine that ownership of the Renthal brand was coming back to Great Britain from its American owners, it filled me with a sense of pride, something to be proud of. You may ask why? I first came into contact with Henry Rosenthal and then his business partner Andrew Renshaw as a young boy. Henry was at a trial around the early 70s with some new aluminium handlebars. I did not take much notice of the product but of the nice new Renthal stickers! Over the years we would become friends, something that has endured the test of time. It was in late November 2013 that I heard the sad news that Andrew had passed away after a brave fight against cancer. Renthal is coming home and will now be led by a new team who will take the product into the future and beyond; Henry is very pleased, and I am sure Andrew would also be. ARTICLE: JOHN HULME
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IT'S COMING HOME RENTHAL
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he name Renthal is one born from a passion for motorcycles and engineering. The vision of the handlebar may be a piece of engineered aluminium tubing, but to Renthal, it’s a piece of mechanical genius.
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Anyone who has ever seen Henry ride an off-road motorcycle will understand why he has crashed so often, sometimes with severe consequences. From a very early age, he had ridden motorcycles, starting with a Matchless converted from road to motocross trim. Crashing was a constant part of riding, and with it came bent handlebars. From the effort needed to pick up, the heavy Matchless came the obsession in later life with the weight of products and the need for better handlebars. It was in his younger teenage years that he would meet Andrew Renshaw, after yet another crash which wrecked the front forks on his Matchless. One of Henry’s friends told him about a boy called Andrew, who was also mad keen on motorcycles and had lots of motorcycle spares in a shed in his parent’s garden. Henry visited Andrew, who had a pair of Earl’s Leading Link forks for £2.10s. After he had bought the forks, he was just about to leave when Andrew said: “You know they won’t fit”. After some discussion, Andrew told Henry that he would make a set of special steering adaptors to enable them to fit and, furthermore, there would be no charge for this service. That was the beginning of a lifelong friendship which led to the starting of Renthal a few years later.
The aluminium handlebar
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up a business in England specialising in ex-war department strong alloys. One of the alloys was a material designated H14 WP. This alloy which was used in Spitfire airframes was 7/8 gauge and had immense strength because it had to withstand the huge G-forces generated by the steep angles that Spitfires could bank to. The company, The Atlantic Metal Company Ltd of St Pancras Way London, had quite a large stock of this material and when Henry complained to his uncle about how many times he had bent the handlebars on his motorbike, his uncle suggested this material. Henry scoffed at the idea, saying that aluminium could never be strong enough, but he agreed to try it, and Henry was sent with some tube to a TV aerial maker in South London to bend the first pair of aluminium handlebars. The aerial makers broke their first bender trying to bend the handlebars and took another half day on another bender trying to make them!
Each batch of material gets thoroughly inspected before making its way to the factory floor.
A time to learn
Andrew and Henry had become good friends after the fork-buying episode. Andrew was always keen on the engineering of motorcycles, more so than the riding of them. At 16 Henry moved to trials and Andrew became very much involved in making sure his trials machines were fantastic. Move forward now to Remembrance Sunday 1969, now both aged 20, with no trials to attend and nothing to do. They were sitting in front of the fire discussing the past when the subject of the alloy handlebars that had been made so many years before came up. Two hours later the idea of aluminium alloy trials handlebars was born. By starting a small hobby company, Andrew would be the engineer and Henry was going to be in charge of commercial and marketing. They thought of a name: ‘Rosenshaw’ was too unwieldy but ‘Renthal’ – Andrew Renshaw and Henry Rosenthal sounded much better. So Andrew built a bender using the lathe in his shed
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On target It was time to move ‘up North’ for round five of the 2018 ACU British Championship from the previous round at Kelly’s Farm in the south, and with it came a change of weather from the warm summer we have enjoyed. With a new venue for the John Hardaker Trophy at Aislaby, above the seaside resort of Whitby in North Yorkshire, the wind and rain returned to fall on the event. With a dry opening lap the rain then came and changed the nature of the mandatory twelve hazards to be ridden three times. In an easier than expected British Championship round the leaders in all the four classes remained clear at the top of the points tables with both James Dabill (Beta) and Ross Danby (TRS UK) keeping their one-hundred-percent winning records intact. A total of 38 riders were entered across Championship, Expert, Masters and Elite Youth classes in this Guisborough DMCC Ltd event. ARTICLE: TRIALS MEDIA
James Dabill (Beta)
Championship Class Never a rider to look under pressure even at a low-scoring event, the combination of James Dabill and the Beta continue to dominate this year’s championship. His opening lap score of three was made up of a single mark on section seven and a two on section nine, which was bettered by both of his closest championship rivals Jack Price and the older of the two Peace brothers Dan as they lost one mark each. As for many of the other championship class riders, parting with a five pushed them way out of the equation. As the rain started to fall at the opening of the second lap all the riders upped their pace as it started to affect the hazards. As any top-class rider would, Dabill opened up the advantage with a faultless lap looking very confident as Price lost his advantage, whilst Peace chased Dabill losing just a single mark. On the last lap the heavens opened and the hazards all became more difficult as the rain changed their nature completely. Dabill was now at his very best and once again, as we have seen all season, he left his rivals with no answer to his consistency as he had another clear lap to record his fifth win and increase his advantage in the points table.
CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS
RESULTS: 1: James Dabill (Beta) 3; 2: Jack Price (JST Gas Gas UK) 6; 3: Dan Peace (JST Gas Gas UK) 9; 4: Jack Peace (JST Gas Gas UK) 16; 5: Toby Martyn (RG Montesa/Honda UK) 24; 6: Iwan Roberts (TRS UK) 24; 7: Jack Sheppard (MRS Sherco) 28; 8: Tom Minta (BMS Scorpa) 32; 9: Billy Green (Beta-UK) 33; 10: Jack Challoner (Craig’s Montesa) 39; 11: Andy Chilton (BMS Scorpa Andy Metcalfe) 41; 12: Dec Bullock (Gas Gas) 65; 13: Hugo Jervis (AB TRS) 76.
POSITIONS AFTER FIVE ROUNDS
RESULTS: 1: Dabill 100; 2: Price 81; 3: Dan Peace 75; 4: Martyn 61; 5: Jack Peace 57; 6: Sheppard 52; 7: Chilton 42; 8: Minta 35; 9: Green 25; 10: Roberts 20; 11: Challoner 20; 12: Bullock 20; 13: Connor 19; 14: Wigg 16; 15: Jervis 13. 82
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Take nothing away from TRS mounted Ross Danby in this poorly supported class as he nevertheless continues his total domination of the Masters class, who ride the easiest half of the Championship sections and the hardest half of the Expert sections. As he demonstrated in the previous round he has the upper hand over his rivals with, once again, a clear victory over local rider Adam Milner (TRS UK) as his closest championship challenger Tom Affleck (180° Vertigo) was pushed into third. Adding some international flavour to the event was Australia’s Connor Hogan (Gas Gas) who finished fourth.
MASTERS CLASS RESULTS: 1: Ross Danby (TRS UK) 14; 2: Adam Milner (TRS UK) 26; 3: Tom Affleck (180° Vertigo) 34; 4: Connor Hogan (Gas Gas) 68.
2018 CHAMPIONSHIP POSITIONS RESULTS: 1: Danby 100; 2: Affleck 77; 3: Haslam 51; 4: Jones 39; 5: Milner 17; 6: McColl 15; 7: Smith 13; 8: Hogan 13.
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SUPERTRIAL
Superbowl Well maybe not as ‘Superbowl’ as what happens in the USA, but the Seymour’s Arena once again hosted a very spectacular Supertrial. On the Saturday it was the ladies who put on the show along with the youth riders. As expected Emma Bristow was in dominant form on the A route, with the determined Alice Minta also a clear winner on the B route. In the youth class it was Gus Oblein who kept a fighting Charlie Smith at bay. On the Sunday under clear blue skies once again the challenge to James Dabill came from Spain and the young talent of Spain’s Marc Riba. UK TRS importer Steve Saunders invited him over for the event, and he did not disappoint as he pushed Jack Price down to the final step of the podium by a single mark. Once again supported by an enthusiastic crowd the North Berks MCC delivered an event to be proud of, which produced some excellent trials action. ARTICLE: TRIALS MEDIA, HEATH BRINDLEY R2W TRIALS
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2018 SUPERTRIAL, SEYMOUR’S ARENA, SATURDAY LADIES A ROUTE: 1: Emma Bristow (Sherco) 7; 2: Donna Fox (Montesa) 23; 3: Jess Bown (BMS/BVM Scorpa) 28.
LADIES B ROUTE: 1: Alice Minta (Inch Perfect Beta) 12; 2: Katlyn Adshead (TRS) 23; 3: Bethanie Dunning (Appleyard M/cs Beta) 29.
YOUTH: 1: Gus Oblein (Sherco) 30; 2: Charlie Smith (Inch Perfect Beta) 36; 3: Brett Harbud (BVM Beta) 51.
2018 SUPERTRIAL, SEYMOUR’S ARENA, SUNDAY RESULTS: 1: James Dabill (Beta) 11; 2: Marc Riba (TRS-ESP) 18; 3: Jack Price (JST Gas Gas UK) 19; Jack Peace (JST Gas Gas UK) 28.
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Superb finish
What a finish to the 2018 Acklams Beta ACU British Youth Championship rounds at the tough and demanding Bracken Rocks venue. The Mansfield Maun MCC had laid out a three-lap course taking in twelve hazards. The sunshine of a warm July kept the action ‘hot’ as the riders battled for the top spots in their respective classes. It’s been an exciting series which has seen good support in the various classes, apart from the A Class. The ACU gave two choices of championships for the riders, which has left a divide of which one to compete in. Taking away no credit from the winner it is a fact that it’s killed this championship for the A class riders with only five pointsscoring riders during the whole season. ARTICLE: TRIALS MEDIA • PICTURES: JAXX LAWSON AND JOEL CRABTREE
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A Class Champion: Joe Faunthorpe (Acklams Beta) Taking the championship by the closest of margins, with a single point being the difference between Joe Faunthorpe (Beta) and Daniel Slack (Sherco) has seen the winner hold the upper hand with three wins to Slack’s two in the five rounds contested. At Bracken Rocks the first lap swung both ways before they both finished on 24 marks lost. On the second and final lap it was time for Faunthorpe to stamp his authority on the event as he returned two single-lap scores, pulling away from Slack who had no answer to the eventual winner’s fantastic form when it mattered. These two riders have fought very hard for the championship and Faunthorpe left himself some work to do as he slipped to third position at round three, but he never lost sight of the championship and is a very worthy winner.
ROUND 5: MANSFIELD MAUN
RESULTS: 1: Joe Faunthorpe (Beta) 41; 2: Daniel Slack (Sherco) 55; 3: William Clarke (Beta) 115.
2018 A CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP POSITIONS
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B Class Champion: Ben Dignan (Gas Gas) What a tight championship this has been, with Scotland’s Ben Dignan remaining focussed to eventually take the title after a season-long battle with eventual second and third-placed finishers Jack Dance and Reece Gazzard. Despite Dance and Gazzard winning the opening rounds, with Ben finishing as runner-up on both occasions he knew that once had taken the win at round three he was on a level playing field with his two rivals. Competing in the Trial125 class of the Trial World Championship has seen him use this experience to take a vital victory at round four as Dance slipped to third on the day. As both Dance and Gazzard battled with one another it was allowing Dignan to creep ahead of these two to take the championship with a small but clear advantage. Small in stature but big on talent, Harry Turner made fourth position his own keeping well in front of an interesting battle for fifth position. This revolved around Harry Bowyer, brothers Ross and Jamie Galloway and Harvey Taglione, with Bowyer eventually winning this close battle at the close of the championship having had better consistency in his results.
Harry Turner
ROUND 5: MANSFIELD MAUN RESULTS: 1: Jack Dance (Gas Gas) 7; 2: Ben Dignan
(Gas Gas) 12; 3: Reece Gazzard (Scorpa) 30; 4: Harry Turner (Gas Gas) 48; 5: Harvey Taglione (Gas Gas) 92; 6: Harry Bowyer (Gas Gas) 94; 7: Ross Galloway (TRS) 101; 8: Frankie Rhodes (Beta) 102; 9: Owen Chestnut (Gas Gas) 103; 10: Jamie Galloway (TRS) 106.
2018 B CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP POSITIONS RESULTS: 1: Dignan 91; 2: Dance 85; 3: Gazzard 84; 4:
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CLASSIC COLLECTION LEJEUNE HONDA
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Round six of the 2018 FIM Trial World Championship would take us to Comblain-au-pont in Belgium. Besides the beer and the sausages, the other subject that always comes to mind with Belgium is the Lejeune Family and, of course, the history of Honda in trials. This year, in association with the Lejeune family, the world-leading authorities on anything Honda trials the French trio of Jean Caillou, Oliver Barjon and Patrick Pissis – who are better known as the RTLR Club Europe – had put together a small exhibition in the cellar of the local information centre in the town. ARTICLE: TRIAL MAGAZINE AND MAXIME LEJUENE
The entrance to the Lejuene Lair.
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he exhibition would trace the three world titles that Eddy Lejeune won, as well as show the road to this success with some other unique jewels from the Lejeune family’s collection.
Doctor’s orders
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Before the doors officially opened, some privileged guests were invited including Thierry Michaud, Miquel Ciera, Oscar Giro, Toni Bou, Takahisa Fujinami and many more names from the world of trials past and present to share this unique occasion. The machines in the collection would lead to a really nice talk of trials history to all who came to listen. The Lejeune trials story began when the family doctor was called to have a look at the eldest son Jean-Marie, who was not feeling too well as he was asthmatic. The doctor’s prescription was easy: fresh air! His father Pepe Lejuene had motorcycles in mind, and at Plastiflac’s workshop, where the OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2018 • TRIAL MAGAZINE
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1965 Honda SS50: This machine was converted in 1965 for the use of the eldest son Jean-Marie Lejuene to ride in the under 250cc class. In mid-1966 he would move to the converted Honda CB 175 before a move to Montesa was rewarded with the Belgian national championship in 1974, 1977 and 1978. 1960’s Honda CB 125 Twin and Honda CB 175 Twin: From 1962 onwards Jean ‘Pepe’ Lejeune, the father of the three boys would convert several Honda based road machines for trials use. The first was the CB 125cc followed by the CB 175cc, which would be used by himself and Jean-Marie in the sixties. In more recent times the youngest son Eric can be found competing on it in classic trials.
family business was located in Belgium, the first machine would be the small Honda SS 50 built for Jean-Marie to go and get some fresh air in the woods on his new trials motorcycle. On this, he won the Heusy’s gymkhana followed by two Belgian Championship titles in 1964 and 1965 despite the lack of horsepower from the 50cc engine. Later during the 1965 season, Jean-Marie would move to a Honda 125 Twin. The engine would come directly from Japan with his father once again making the other parts of the motorcycle. The red 175cc Twin would follow this, and can still be seen ridden in classic trials by the youngest brother Eric.
Trials for everyone
Pepe would then involve all the family in the sport of trials; if your name was Lejeune you rode in trials, as simple as that! Many trials motorcycles would come out of the Plastiflac workshop, and all with the same four-stroke noise. Eric still rides the CB 175 Twin which many consider to be the ‘Ferrari’ of trials machines such is the roar from the exhaust. The second son, Eddy, was now at an age where he would be able to compete in trials and so Pepe had to perform another miracle. He produced a trials machine around the Honda XR 75 in its original frame before a Pepe Lejuene special frame was built. After the machine was ‘Born’, it was rebuilt many times, with the engine capacity increased from 75cc to 104cc and eventually 123cc. Unfortunately, these machines have disappeared over the years, but rumour has it they are still around, so maybe at a later date, they will be found. It was with the final version, the 123cc, that Eddy would come into contact with a rider who would become an arch rival at a later date: Thierry Michaud at the Des Alpes trials schools in the French Alps. TRIAL MAGAZINE • OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2018
1979 TL200R: After many good results on his father’s converted machines Honda Belgium gave Eddy a white TL200R which had been prepared by the HRSC in Japan. Still only 16 years old he started to win all the trials competitions in Belgium. In 1979 he began to compete in the world trials championship, attending several rounds where he finished in the top ten, but before April, and was still not old enough to score points. Despite this problem he still ended the year in 15th position. This is one of four of the machines used in 1979. 101
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