Classic Dirt Bike

There we were thundering up the road in the van and heading for Aviemore, but as we were in a van and not on a motorway, our thunder was a slightly muted 50mph – been on the course, got the certificate – when the news kicked in over the radio. You kn

An event CDB has been to many times is the Jersey Classic and Modern Two day Trial on the beautiful island of Jersey. Organiser Graham Du Feu has given us the dates for next year’s trial, March 21/22, 2020 so add those dates to your diary. From Septe

The Kia Series has been raising funds for a teenage cancer charity in memory of young trials rider Dominic Feaks who died last year at the age of 21. Of the many fundraising events, potentially the most glamorous would be the calendar girls shoot hel

Trials riding as a sport was changing rapidly as the Seventies rushed to a close, the Spanish factories caught in a situation where the staffing levels of the glory days couldn’t be altered when the economic climate did. Trying to reduce the workforc

Back for a gallop – or perhaps a hack would be more appropriate for a cynical old journo – on that old hobby horse the Scottish Pre-65 no less, and the never ending debate over eligibility. Only with a twist this time, the question being one of rider

Let’s just say a lot: firstly, they were all Cheshire lads, who started scrambling in the 1950s; secondly, they all had successful careers on Dots, manufactured locally in Ellesmere Street, Manchester, which, thirdly, caught the eye of Derry Preston

A lot of the techniques Bernie demonstrated during the school day are in his book Observed Trials. In 1983 he and journalist Len Weed created this 192-page masterpiece on a traditional sport which was changing. After being a peculiarly English or Bri

Some marques seem to grab the limelight and Bultaco have certainly done that since that far-off day in late 1964 when Sammy Miller parked up his Ariel and cast a leg over the development Sherpa T. It seems almost every trials name ever has ridden a B

A spectacular weekend of grasstrack action is promised for fans of the sideways sport in September. John Banner and his co-promoter Carl Pugh have organised the Longdon Lazer Grass Track for September 8, 2019 at Heath Hill Farm, near Longdon, in Worc