Alison Devine, Secretary of the ACU Trials and Enduro department has decided to hang up her pen and notepad after many years with the sport’s governing body at their Rugby headquarters, she leaves the ACU this Easter.
She has been a well-known voice at the end of the phone to many who use the ACU’s off-road services.
Alison, see photo below with John Collins, Chairman of the Trials & Enduro committee, Director and Vice-Chairman ACU; receiving an advanced gift as recognition for her input to the ACU.
Trials Guru wishes Alison a happy departure from the ACU this Easter.
Alison with John Collins. Photo courtesy: Mick Wren, ACU T&E Committee member.
Release: Mid-March 2015, get yours free of UK postage NOW at £19.99!
Currently on ‘UK pre-order offer’. A donation from the books free proceeds will be made to the ‘ACU Benevolent Fund’ – a registered UK motorcycle sport charity – for the benefit of members and riders who have fallen on hard times. The more copies that are sold… the better!
Help us donate as much as possible to this very worthy cause, for the benefit of our sport, from our sport!
Motorcycle Competition Scotland is definitely a book for the motorcycle sport enthusiast, it covers probably the most exciting era in Scottish motorcycle Racing; Trials; Motocross and Enduro. Over 100 pages, fully illustrated by some wonderful photographs, some never seen before, taken by both professional and amateur photographers of Scottish motorcycle competitors in action.
The Putoline – Classic Dirtbike show takes place February 21/22, 2015 at the Telford International Centre, Telford.
Originally the Wrighty Classic Off-Road and Racing Show, organized annually by Alan Wright, the well-known Midlander trials rider who rode for Texaco-Heron Team Suzuki in the seventies, Alan has taken a well-earned retirement and handed over the reigns to Classic Bike Shows, part of the Mortons Motorcycle Media group.
The main sponsor is Putoline Oils UK.
It’s now very much more than just another show with special guests, on-stage interviews and a chance for old friends to meet up annually.
Trials Guru will be there and most likely visiting the Trial Magazine/Classic Trial stand during the weekend.
Advance tickets are now sold, so it’s pay at the door.
Please say ‘Hi’ – See you there!
Three times World Champion meets eleven times British and twice European trials champion! or – Vesty meets Sammy! at last years show with Sammy’s 1966/67 SSDT winning Bultaco, now owned by Vesty! Photo: Mortons Motorcycle Media.
MOTORCYCLE COMPETITION SCOTLAND 1975 – 2005 by John Moffat
– Foreword by 8 times TT winner, JIM MOODIE –
Yoomee Ltd is proud to present this superb semi-hardback book which covers the history of Motorcycle Competition in Scotland from 1975 – 2005 by John Moffat. With foreword written by eight times TT winner, Jim Moodie, it is presented with a mixture of exciting, and in many cases un-seen, colour and black and white images, this book is in A4 size format with over 100 pages of informative and interesting text.
This is a book which explores and describes in words and photographs, competitors and enthusiasts from motorcycle sport in Scotland and more! It’s about people, places and events from this era, the endeavours and performances by motorcycle sports most respected riders, who were either born or brought up in Scotland.
A book which will convey you back to a time-period when Scotland produced not only British, but World championship contenders. Riders who endeavoured to create performances, which proved they were serious competitors in racing, trials, enduro, and motocross.
This is a publication aimed at the motorcycle enthusiast.
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Full details of price, how and where to buy Motorcycle Competition Scotland 1975-2005is available … Here
UPDATE: Initial reports indicate that there has been healthy demand for this publication. Many thanks to all in the UK who have ‘pre-ordered’ and therefore saved on UK postage! However there are also a number of readers who have already placed an overseas order, thank you very much for your support!
Team HRC Trial – Repsol Honda Team continues to reinforce its roster of world-class riders with the incorporation of young gun Jaime Busto into the team for the 2015 season.
Repsol Honda Team Trial gets a boost in 2015 with the arrival of Jaime Busto. The Spanish rider will line up alongside Toni Bou and Takahisa Fujinami in all events on the 2015 FIM World Championship calendar in Trial Outdoor, as well as taking part in the 2015 Spanish Trial Championship. Busto will compete in all top-level competitions on the Montesa Cota 4RT.
Jaime Busto is one of the brightest lights in the Trial discipline. In 2014 he scored an impressive win in the FIM World Cup (the former World Junior Championship), winning seven of the thirteen races disputed. In 2012 he had become Youth 125 category champion, a competition in which he had previously debuted in 2011 at thirteen years of age. At a Spanish national level, the Basque rider has clinched just about every possible title in the lower categories, this year even finishing eighth in spite of carrying an injury throughout the latter part of the season.
Jaime: “I’m really pleased to be able to form a part of the HRC Team, the best team in the world. For me, it really is an honour to be in a team with such great champions as Toni Bou and Takahisa Fujinami. I hope to be able to learn a lot from them. The Montesa Cota 4RT has surprised me. I will have to get used to the four-stroke, but I think that I’ll adapt to it quickly.”
Miquel Cirera Lamarca, Team Manager said: “At Repsol Honda Team we have the best riders in the world, and we want to continue that way for many years, to keep on winning races and titles. We had the chance to sign up Jaime Busto, one of the most promising young talents currently around. He will serve as a fine complement to our champions Toni Bou and Takahisa Fujinami.”
Scorpa Motorcycles is very pleased to have reached an agreement with the Spanish Trials rider Sandra Gómez, she will compete for Scorpa in the 2015 sports program and help develop the new Twenty series.
The young Spanish rider is a Grand Prix champion in the women’s division and is an accomplished competitor in the most important races on the trials calendar. Sandra Gomez at age 22 has accumulated an impressive record, with several world team titles to her credit, in addition she has won several national titles and she is credited as one of the world’s best female specialist’s in trials competition.
Scorpa Motorcycles, after developing the new Scorpa Twenty will therefore squarely enter into the sport, betting on the skills of the young Spanish rider the 2015 season. Sandra is considered to be one of the top players in the world of women’s trial.
Rob Edwards (Sandiford Montesa) Scottish Six Days Trial 1981 – Mamore Section – Photo ~ Iain Lawrie, Kinlochleven
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
Rob Edwards with John Moffat (Trials Guru) Photo Copyright: John Hulme/Trials Media
Trials Guru comment:
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.
As regular readers of Trials Guru will already know, we support other ventures and web-based trials information sites.
Retrotrials, run by trials enthusiast James Brown is a website we have been viewing over the past six months and we believe is operated in a similar spirit to Trials Guru.
Retrotrials specialises in 1980’s and 1990’s trials and machinery.
You will now find a link to Retrotrials.com on our ‘links’ page and indeed on our Mick Andrews article, penned a couple of months ago, a direct link to a very well researched article which was produced as a direct interview with Mick at his home in Derbyshire.
Here is a link to Retrotrials website to view now… Here
The Premier Trial Website – Recording the History of the Sport 'Established 2014'
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