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Dateline March 2014…

With the event approaching at a rapid rate the Edinburgh & District Motor Club has sent out riding numbers to all the successful entrants for this year’s event. A detailed description of ‘who’s who’ in this annual classic will be issued shortly.

The machine importers who will represent the manufacturers will once again be providing excellent support facilities within the Parc Ferme in Fort William. For this to run as smoothly as possible, they will need riders to register with them for all your requirements before and during the event.

Contact details for all the importers are available, so please make your arrangements with them as soon as possible.

Beta – Tel: 01535 655970 – Mail: sales@beta-uk.com

Gas Gas – Tel: 01298 766814 – Mail: andy@gasgasuk.com

Jotagas – Tel: 01452 849458 – Mail: jotagasuk@gmail.com

Montesa – “Montesa Honda will be providing on-event support at the Scottish Six Days Trial for competitors on Montesa machinery. Any competitors interested in receiving support at the event, opening a parts account prior to the event or interested in machine hire for the duration of the event, please make contact with your local Montesa dealer from the list below”.

Craigs Motorcycles – Tel: 01924 488 117 – Mickey Oates Motorcycles – Tel: 0141 332 7374 – St Blazey Moto-X – Tel: 01726 816 181

Ossa – Tel: 01229 716806 – Mail: ossauk@hotmail.co.uk

Scorpa – Tel: 01229 716806 – Mail: nigel.birkett@talk21.com

Sherco – Tel: 01423 772885 – Mail: info@mrsltd.co.uk

The very first pre-production water-cooled Yamaha TYZ 250 to appear at the Scottish Six Days Trial was this one seen here in May 1992. It was ridden by Yamaha factory technician and test rider HIRO KAMURA. His aim was to test the bike to its’ limits and finish the event which he did in 144th position losing 517 marks. This bike was to effectively replace the, by now, ageing TY250R air-cooled mono-shock Yamaha trials machine, which had proved so popular during its production run from 1984 to 1992. Kamura returned to Japan and fed back useful information to his development colleagues which resulted in the new models launch in early 1993.

Kamura seen here on Creag Lundie in the 1992 Scottish Six Days on the prototype TYZ Yamaha.

Hiro Kamura on the TYZ riding the Ben Nevis sections in May 1992.

(All Photos copyright: Iain Lawrie, Kinlochleven)

SSDT UPDATE 2014 – Clerk of the Course, Jeff Horne

After another few days in the Lochaber area, I can confirm you will be treated to some new and spectacular views along with a new route this year. In addition to this some old favourites will have an extra twist or two, and the introduction of some brand new sections just to keep you on your toes.

Along with a small group of Assistant Clerks we spent a very cold day of snow, hail and rain showers on Saturday preparing new sections that can only be described as a replacement for the old Witches burn and some.

We are scheduled to be back in the area in two weeks to continue where we left off. Bad weather and snow prevented us from carrying on. However this gave us an opportunity to look at some of the existing sections on the Sunday and we will indeed be extending some of them, like we did with some last year. So look out for some minor changes throughout the week.

I can also confirm that permission has been granted for the trial to use the Achlain group of sections for the first time since the early 90s. For those of you that can remember them, they may bring back fond memories or nightmares.

We will be publishing a comprehensive list of riders along with an editorial mentioning some of the riders taking part very soon.

Jeff Horne

Clerk of Course, SSDT

Don’t miss it…the Scottish Six Days Trial – 5 – 10 May, 2014.

Bronwyn Palmer (250 Gas gas) from Perthshire, Scotland gains useful experience at the British Ladies Trials Championship opening round at Didcot on Sunday 16th march 2014. Photo: Heath Brindley/R2WTrials.

A page dedicated to the greatest event of them all, the Scottish Six Days Trial – Born 1911 and still going strong

Bob Macgregor (Rudge) in the 1939 SSDT.

Roy Kerr (Montesa 349) storms ‘Pipeline’ in 1980 (Photo: Iain Lawrie, Kinlochleven)

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Bultaco Motorcycles…

Francisco ‘Bambi’ Valera one of the Bultaco factory mechanics/technicians and his grandson Oriol Marse with a Bultaco ‘Chispa’ 50cc junior trials machine.

Stay tuned to… Trials Guru

James Dabill in the 2012 World Series. This is a brief insight into the life of a professional trials rider. Dabill is a multiple British Trials Champion.

We also follow James Dabill through part of his Scottish Six Days Trial ride in 2012.