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PRIVILEGED I would describe my life as very privileged. Yes, I work very hard to fine-tune my riding and the time in the gym is relentless. Competition time is where I have to perform and deliver, and it’s something I have been very good at for the past twelve years! You have to sacrifice a ‘normal’ life to do my job and be the very best. The reward is to be at the very top of your game and also to be surrounded by a fantastic team who in turn are also prepared to give their very best at all times. The opportunity to ‘Put on a show’ for these people and also the supporters of Montesa is something I look forward to every year at Montesa’s grand fiesta, La Montesada. WORDS: TONI BOU WITH JOHN HULME • PICTURES: JOAN VALLS
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espite the injury problems that affected me during a tough 2018 season I am now very much back to feeling close to my very best. When you get an injury you have to look at damage limitation, as at times during the season you have no option but to keep riding; Belgium was a good example of this. I have to thank the Repsol Honda team doctor Joaquim Terricabras and all his medical staff, who have been a very important part to helping me recover from my injuries. Looking ahead to 2019, just before the Montesada Day we spent a very successful few days working with the team, which was very productive as we had the opportunity away from the competitions to test some new development ideas on the four-stroke Cota 4RT. You may all think I have the best machine, but with Honda it’s always a case of looking for perfection and the more feedback we as a team give the engineers the better they can make the machine. Montesada Day has now been running since 2001 and this year was a fantastic occasion with the 50th year of production of the Cota model; Montesa I take my hat off to you. Before I close the column for 2018 I would like to thank everyone who keeps Toni Bou at the top of his game and my many fans around the globe; have a good Christmas and Happy New Year. Until Next Time – Ride On! – Toni
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take the runner-up spot in front of France. The scores in the Men’s World Class were: 1: Spain 83; 2: Great Britain 122; 3: France: 133.
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Men’s International Class Riding in front of a patriotic home crowd the Czech Republic took a very popular clear victory in the cold and wet conditions. The team, which consisted of Dominik Wunsch, Martin Matejicek
Emma Bristow, the undisputed number one ladies’ trials rider in the world, headed the team
This year, the end of season event moved to Skolov in the Czech Republic in an event which suffered from cold and wet conditions. Leaving no doubt as to which country is the king of trials, Spain once again romped to their 15th consecutive FIM Trial Des Nations trophy in the men’s catergory. The team consisted of Toni Bou, Jeroni Fajardo and young Jaime Busto. With the best two scores counting from each of the 15 hazards over the two laps their closest challengers were Great Britain: James Dabill, Jack Price and Toby Martyn, who came back from a poor first lap to
to guide her fellow team members Donna Fox and Jess Bown to the top spot of the podium. They totally dominated the event with the best scores on both of the two laps to head home the defending champions from Spain Sandra Gomez, Beta Abellan and Neus Mercia. The scores in the Women’s World Class were 1: Great Britain 46; 2: Spain 48; 3: Germany: 85.
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Proving very popular once again was the S3 supported 2018 series. These road-based events attract the rider looking for a more traditional type of event.
S3 EXPERTS: 1: Richard Sadler (Acklams Beta) 152; 2: Guy Kendrew
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S3 125: 1: Jake Eley (Beta) 112; 2: Andrew Eley (Beta) 88; 3: Ronnie Day (Gas Gas) 20.
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Once again the Scott Trial run by the Richmond Motor Club Yorkshire Ltd was a huge success. The official Scorpa UK importer and 1984 Scott Trial winner Nigel Birkett was invited to present the awards as the event closed on the Saturday evening. The Trials Guru, John Moffat, was supported by Charlotte Brown for the auction, which once again raised a very welcome amount of money for local charities and the club would like to thank everyone who supported this. Nigel Birkett, on the left here, is with the winners of the Eris S. Myers Trophy for the best club team, the Yeadon & Guiseley A of Jack Price, Richard Sadler and James Dabill.Trial Mag 1118.pdf 3 17/11/2018 22:46 Paul Nash Motocycles
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Round 1: 25th-26th May, Italy TrialGP / Trial2 / Trial125 Round 2: 7th-9th June, Japan TrialGP / TrialGP Women / Trial2 / Trial125 Round 3: 22nd-23rd June, Netherlands TrialGP / Trial2 / Trial125 / TrialE Round 4: 29th-30th June, Belgium TrialGP / Trial2 / TrialE Round 5: 13th-14th July, Portugal TrialGP / TrialGP Women / Trial2 / Trial2 Women Round 6: 20th-21st July, France TrialGP / Trial2 / Trial125 Round 7: 31st August-1st September, Great Britain TrialGP / TrialGP Women / Trial2 / Trial2 Women / Trial125 Round 8: 21st-22nd September, Spain TrialGP / TrialGP Women / Trial2 / Trial2 Women Trial Des Nations: 27th-28th September, Ibiza 2018 was a very special year for the Cota model produced by Montesa as it celebrated its 50th year of production! To mark this occasion a Montesa-Honda Cota 300RR 50th Anniversary Special Edition has been produced. Based around the Cota 300RR it has a gold frame and special white aesthetics; it’s certainly a machine to add to the collection as only 50 units will be built.
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Sadler joins JST Gas Gas UK It was a very happy John Shirt Jnr who announced that the 2018 ACU British Expert Trials Champion Richard Sadler has joined the JST Gas Gas UK team for 2019. John Shirt Jnr: “I am naturally very pleased and excited to have Richard in the team because he is at the forefront of the UK trials scene and competes almost every weekend. Richard will team up with fellow JST Gas Gas UK team rider Dan Thorpe and the other members and hopefully we will see some good competitive riding through 2019. He has reached the stage in his riding career where he simply fancies a change after a good few successful years with the same brand. He has just collected a new 2019 TXT300RACING and will start competing on it straight away”. Richard Sadler: “I want to thank John Lampkin at Beta UK and Paul and Joel Sadler at Acklams Beta for all their support as I look forward to the move onto the red machine”.
Toni Bou (Repsol Honda-ESP) Round 1: 20th January, Hungary, Budapest Round 2: 3rd February, Spain, Barcelona Round 3: 16th February, Spain, Bilbao Round 4: 23rd February, Spain, Granada Round 5: 8th March, France, Marseille Round 6: March date TBC, Russia, Moscow Round 7: 6th April, Costa Rica, San Jose Round 8: 27th April, Andorra, La Vella Trial Des Nations: 12th April, France, Vendee All dates are provisional and subject to change.
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CATCH UP TOM MINTA
Orange… all the way The Minta family is a trials family, one I have seen around for as long as I can remember. Supported by his family their son, Tom, has gone through the youth scene and (and I use this word very loosely) ‘matured’ into a good fun-loving trials rider, one always ready to crack the joke and join the fun. This year he has won three nationals, something he is quite rightly very proud of. Riding the orange Scorpa for Nigel and June Birkett, the UK importers at Birkettmoto Sport, he has set his heights even higher for 2019, where he intends to make his mark in the British Championship. ARTICLE: TRIALS MEDIA WITH TOM MINTA PICTURES: TRIALS MEDIA, BARRY ROBINSON, JOHN AND MATT AND MIKE RAPLEY
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Wet through at the 2018 Scott Trial!
Tell us about your Scott Trial day
I was happy with my number 190, which put me right at the back. The primary objective of the day was to get back with as few problems as possible, and with myself and the Scorpa in one piece. Due to the high river levels, this was a hard day just keeping going. I was too cautious about drowning my machine in the sections, so I paddled my way through most of them with no confidence in attacking them to get a clean. I had a steady speed all day with no problems until petrol stop six, where I got my first of two punctures. I fixed this quickly, but I still lost a good amount of time. Everything returned to normal, and I upped my pace to make up for lost time. With ‘Rotten Wood’ insight, I knew I was nearly home. A second puncture just after the sections meant I lost more valuable time after the rear tyre almost came off the rim, but I managed to repair the puncture and had a steady ride back to the start field. Overall I was disappointed with my result due to having such a good result last year. On a plus point, the Scorpa never missed a beat all day. How good is the 2019 Scorpa, why do you like it?
The most significant change on the 2019 Scorpa is the clutch, which is finger-light and easy to use. The power of the machine is a lot smoother, which personally makes it a nicer one to ride with more progressive power and phenomenal grip in the muddiest of conditions. What’s your nine to five job?
I am a full-time level three mechanic. I have been working for my current employer for four years now. I started as an apprentice and worked my way to being fully qualified. I am going on to do my MOT certificate in December this year. I mostly work on cars and light commercial vehicles, camper vans etc. I work for a local family-run garage and get on well with my boss and my colleagues, it’s always a laugh throughout the day, and I thoroughly enjoy it. My boss does British Championship AutoGrass racing, and so we always try and better each TRIAL MAGAZINE • DECEMBER 2018-JANUARY 2019
In the sun at Scarborough on the Gas Gas in 2012.
other at our sports. I feel that when I’m working throughout the week, I enjoy riding my machine more because I make the most of my riding time at the weekend. But then only being able to ride at the weekends means I am unable to ride at a top world championship level. Did you enjoy school?
For me, school was tough as I was not very academic and struggled to pick things up as quickly as my classmates. However, my school put me on a ‘travel to learn’ course which meant I went to a local college every week to work towards my level one mechanic qualification. It meant that I already had qualifications when I left school, which helped massively in securing my apprenticeship and working my way to being fully qualified. I enjoyed Technology the most as I love working with my hands, I thrived at woodwork as it was a very hands-on subject. I also enjoyed PE and represented the school on the football and rugby teams. Unfortunately, I was not able to use Trials or any motorcycle sport as part of my GCSE PE coursework as according to the exam board it is not a recognised sport! It made one of my favourite subjects very difficult.
Youth trial action at Reeth on the Beta in 2008.
Rewind the clock to your early days, how did you come across motorcycles?
My grandad was very enthusiastic about me taking part in trials. He was involved in sidecar grass track racing but also followed his cousin, Chris Sutton (sooty), in the trials world. Because of my interest in the sport, my younger brother Sam started to ride too. He developed into a good rider but eventually gave up because he was succeeding as a goalkeeper for a local football team, and is still doing it to this day. My sister Alice — most of you will probably know her — started on a Yamaha PW50, she was mad and instantly took a liking to the sport. She didn’t have any sense of fear and took a crack at whatever was thrown her way! She is going to be a high-level lady rider, and I think she will be fighting for every championship whether it’s boys or girls!
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Lampkin walks on water Showing no signs of slowing down at the ripe old age of 42, Yorkshire’s Dougie Lampkin showed his younger rivals once again how to literally walk on water at this year’s Scott Trial as he took his sixth win. Riding with number 198 on his machine he pushed himself to the limits of his pain barrier to pass all but one of the 200 riders to the finish flag, and with the time and observation element of the event taken into account he was once again victorious. Battling with the toughest of conditions as high winds and heavy rain fell on the event he also posted the best observation score. Pushing the many rivers to bursting point it was a relentless battle over the sodden moors for the opportunity to have your name put on the prestigious and much sought-after Alfred A. Scott Memorial Trophy. The event carries a sporting heritage of over 100 years and the Lampkin family name and the Scott Trophy are very closely associated, as the name can now be found for the 14th time etched into the history of motorcycle trials. Between 1960 and 1966 it was Arthur – 1960, 1961 and 1965, and Alan in 1966 who won before Dougie’s late father Martin won in 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1982. Dougie’s first win came way back in 1994, followed by 2006 and 2007, 2013, 2017 and 2018. The fact that he has now repeated his winning feat of 2017 when he won both the Scottish Six Days Trial and the Scott puts him quite rightly in the ‘Legends’ bracket of motorcycle sport – well done that man! WORDS: TRIALS MEDIA • PICTURES: JOHN HULME, BARRY ROBINSON AND NIGEL PEARSON TRIALS UK
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It was second position for Jack Price (JST Gas Gas UK).
Gas Gas won the manufacturers’ team award with: Jack Price, Michael Brown and Dan Peace.
James Dabill (Beta) steadies himself at Whaw Bridge.
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High above Kinlochleven on Blackwater Dam I was having a quick ‘breather’ when some of my old pals asked me about the 4Ride. And yes, they also wanted a picture taken with their machines in this remote part of the world!
Article generation for the magazines comes very easily to me as I am a dedicated motorcycle enthusiast. Since the tender age of 11, when I was introduced to my first motorcycle a BSA Bantam, I have just loved riding motorcycles. I have never owned a road machine; it’s always been off-road where the attraction is for me. The opportunity to compete very much closed when I committed my time to magazine publishing which I really do miss if I am honest. In my world, you should always try and turn any negatives into a positive, and that’s how I arrived at this alternative ride article. Through my relationship with the Shirt family, the official UK Gas Gas importers, I have over the years come into contact with the Pampera model. It was basically a trials model converted more to trail use, a superb machine. Wind the clock forward to 2018 and the Leven Valley two-day trial. My good friends at Honda UK had arranged, through Mickey Oates Motorcycles, to supply me with a new Montesa Cota 4Ride to use as transport at the event. WORDS AND PHOTOS: JOHN HULME
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Magazine publishing had put an end to my competitive riding and yes, I do miss it. With the job of riding around on these adventure machines at the events reporting and taking pictures I still feel very much a part of the trials ‘Family’. These are close family members I have known for years.
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ith an official ‘Press plate’ on the machine I was very privileged to find myself riding on the Mamore Road, an iconic part of the world famous Scottish Six Days Trial high above Kinlochleven. The rain was lashing down but, you know, I was happy as a pig in shite! The sheer pleasure of feeling the open elements on my face is one I always treasure, enjoying the feeling of freedom. This new-found enjoyment of the press plate and the machine has given me a way of once again joining in with the competitors and enjoying the day’s action. Yes, I may only be taking pictures and reporting but the camaraderie amongst the trials ‘family’ is one I very much enjoy.
A new beginning
These versatile trial/trail off-road motorcycles have been around for longer than I can remember. Our sport actually started with converted road models made suitable for off-road riding. With highs and lows of these types of models from the manufacturers, they have come and gone over the years. We have seen the Gas Gas Randone model, but in fact, it’s the Beta Alp and Scorpa TY125F that seem to have been around the longest in more recent times. In 2016, I was invited to the press launch of the newly introduced Montesa Cota 4Ride in Spain. It was very much a new beginning for the magazine in this sector of the sport. I really enjoyed the day on the four-stroke machine as it was very trials orientated, easy to ride and all-round good fun. In my opinion, the only spoiler on the machine was no electric start. All motorcycles should have an electric start; it’s a simple as that. If you stop or get stuck and stall the engine, you press a button and the engine fires back into life, and you’re on your way. In more recent times the trials manufacturers have looked at new areas to increase sales and, off the back of this, we have seen more models become available. Owners want more out of a motorcycle than something that can be only ridden in trials events.
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Despite at times showing to be a little nervous on his first lap, Mitch Brightmore has soon settled down to improve as the day’s action has progressed, in this year’s series. This was the case at round six at the Hafren Trial in Wales. Just off the winning pace on the opening lap he applied his skills to move up to the top of the leader board to eventually take a clear win from Charlie Smith (Inch Perfect Beta) and his nearest championship challenger Gus Oblein. With his eyes on the title he went to Scotland knowing exactly what he had to do to take the title. Two tough days decided the championship in Brightmore’s favour as he won by a clear advantage on both days. The final championship points tally tells its own story. This new series where the youth riders compete with the adults has hopefully given them an early stepping stone on the path to success in the trials world, which becomes much harder as you move up through the classes. ARTICLE: TRIALS MEDIA
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Blowing a gale The 2018 Manx International Classic Trial suffered from some of the poorest weather in its 22-year history, which was disappointing after the hot dry summer the island had enjoyed. However, the good natured Twinshock and Pre65 trials competitors took it all in their stride and enjoyed what has become, for many, their ‘must-ride’ event. Entries were over-subscribed as usual, with the 230 lucky recipients including almost 50 overseas riders and former World Champion Yrjo Vesterinen setting off from the Southern 100 race paddock on Saturday morning from 8.30. WORDS: IAN LEES AND TRIALS MEDIA • PICTURES: MIKE RADCLIFFE PHOTOGRAPHY
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Saturday This day-one route primarily centred around the south and west of the island and included some locations not used for quite a few years, together with old favourites Glen Rushen Gulley and the spectacular coastal rocks at Scarlett. The single-lap route of 32 sections was slightly longer and tougher this year, which seemed to be welcomed by the majority of riders despite the drizzly and misty weather. After the first day, twice former winner James Harland (Triumph Twin) and five-time Twinshock winner Ulsterman Stephen Murphy (Drayton Bantam) were joint leaders of the Pre-65 Premier class on a loss of four, both losing marks on the tricky stream beds at Scard Farm and the muddy section at the top of Cringle Plantation. Scotsman Jim Tennant (Francis Barnett) led the Pre-65 Clubman class on seven. Darren Wasley (Fantic) had the best ride of the day and led the Twinshock Premier class, which runs at the head of the field, having only lost one mark in the stream bed at Scard Farm. Martin Gilbert on his little Honda TM 60 led the Twinshock Clubman class with a solitary five on the relatively easy third section of the day at Poyll Vaaish.
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