Hello Everyone,

Thanks once again for your support.

Today is rather a sad one for me. The ‘Gaffer Guru’ John Moffat has told me I can keep going as long as I want, but I feel that I have subjected you to quite enough punishment and its time to go.

Never in my wildest dreams could I have expected the support you have given me. I have had a fantastic time, a really fantastic time believe me. I was kept going by the The Trials Guru’s enthusiasm. That plus your comments and likes were a real tonic to me. Despite my health problems I still consider myself the luckiest person in the world.

I have always been a people person and the spectators who lined the sections were just as important to me as the sections and they have repaid me a thousand times!

Like all of us I had made mistakes but in general I am pretty pleased.
One thing I will miss is checking the comments and likes each day.

I was pleased and a little surprised when Benny Sellman and Thore Evertson contacted me.

Benny was a fellow Montesa rider and Thore a works Ossa rider.

I also received an e-mail from Martin Belair in California.

These plus dozens and dozens from all over Europe have done me more good than any doctor or medicine could hope to do.
The new generation of Thornaby Trials riders have been following my story – Thanks a lot lads.
I hope to get to the Telford Show again this year so please say Hello, tea with milk, no sugar please!
It is impossible to thank everybody who made this possible but Eric Kitchen, Barry Robinson, Iain Lawrie and Luis Munoz who allowed Guru John (my gaffer) to use their pictures.

When readers send in comments like Scottish Heaven you could bet that one of these are responsible.

Keep Clicking and thanks!
Many thanks again to ‘Trials Guru’ –  John Moffat and thank you finally to Alberto Mallofre, Pere Pi and Montesa for having faith in me.

A FINAL GOODBYE NOW – ROB EDWARDS

It has been absolutely fantastic receiving Rob’s e-mails over the last few months with details of his life in trials and to be able to share this with you all on Trials Guru.

Rob’s story now explains why he hasn’t been seen as often out and about at events, unlike most of his peers from the time when Montesa, Ossa and Bultaco were trying to out-sell each other from the late sixties, through the seventies and into the eighties.

As we have seen, if you have been following Rob’s adventures since late October 2014, what a warm human being he really is.

Despite his health problems which undoubtedly cut short his riding career, that he is as outwardly cheery as he was when some of you rode with him, worked in Head Wrightons with him or marvelled at his skill as a factory Montesa rider in the Scott and Scottish Six Days as well as countless national trials throughout the UK and the rest of the trials-riding world.

I can only say this, many grateful thanks to Rob for taking the time and effort to satisfy my request in the start field at Marske on the 18th October 2014 when I said: ‘Rob, how about doing your story on Trials Guru?’

To all of you, keep commenting and keep telling people to read this story here on Trials Guru, the “Rob Edwards Story ” button will be here on this website for a very long time to come! – The Guru.

The Full Rob Edwards Story … Here

Copyright: All Text: Rob Edwards & Trials Guru / Moffat Racing, John Moffat ~ 2015.

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• Iain Lawrie, Kinlochleven
• John Hulme / Trials Media