Showcase Time - Classic era bikes
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Re: Showcase Time - Classic era bikes
Some more interesting bikes
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- Interesting pic from 1964 Bultaco calendar. So when would that have been published? Late '63. It aint no M10 Sherpa tho.
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- TWN = Triumph Works Nuremburg apparently
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- Triumph 2t 3.jpg (41.23 KiB) Viewed 7484 times
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- Triumph 2t 2.jpg (44.16 KiB) Viewed 7484 times
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- These micro's are growing on me
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- Sprite pre65 Scottish 2.jpg (255.94 KiB) Viewed 7484 times
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- Nice looking bike this. Very early frame too. They're slightly different around the steering head
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- Sprite 175 Trials '66, Frame # 337.jpg (165.7 KiB) Viewed 7484 times
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- Dated magazine ad showing evidence Sprite trials were sold in '64
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Hi JC1
Now thats what I call irrefutable evidence that Sprites were on the pommie market Pre 65 as shown in the page from the MCN, Nov 18th 1964 good one John, lets hope we see that particular model competing in Pre 65 events !!!!!.
The late Chris Leighfield was a works rider for the Frank Hipkin Sprite concern for a number of years, as was Dennis "Jonah" Jones whose Suzuki was also pictured in your previous post.
This very standard but great HT5 was picked up for a bargain price only recently.
Now thats what I call irrefutable evidence that Sprites were on the pommie market Pre 65 as shown in the page from the MCN, Nov 18th 1964 good one John, lets hope we see that particular model competing in Pre 65 events !!!!!.
The late Chris Leighfield was a works rider for the Frank Hipkin Sprite concern for a number of years, as was Dennis "Jonah" Jones whose Suzuki was also pictured in your previous post.
This very standard but great HT5 was picked up for a bargain price only recently.
- Beaut Ariel spotted at my last BMCA trial a month ago
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Pre 65 Classic bikes
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And some more
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- VilliersScorpion trials.jpg (52.35 KiB) Viewed 7403 times
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- TWN trials 5.jpg (40.93 KiB) Viewed 7403 times
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- Triumph 5TA in B40 frame.jpg (159.69 KiB) Viewed 7403 times
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- TriumphCubTrials 1966ish.jpg (82.56 KiB) Viewed 7403 times
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Zundapp were a significant player in early-mid 60s trials - prominent in German trials & the Euro Ch'ship from '64 with 100/125 & 175/200/250 models
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Re: Showcase Time - Classic era bikes
A couple I missed - from back in the day, before 1965:
Pat Slinn's C15 from '64 - the bike the Otter frame is built from
And a Butler, unfortunately without the distinctive fibreglass. Built in 1963ff
We tend to think most of the bikes back in the day were British, but looking at national & international results prior to 1 Jan 1965, I found considerable variety - at least 18 diff non-british manufacturers involved, so I'll finish this thread with bikes from those manufacturers. (It'll need a few posts)
One of the actual Bultacos ridden in the FIM trial at Grenoble, France in Oct '64 (courtesy Club Bultaco website). A converted M4 trail bike
CZs
Derbi - I couldn't find one in trials trim, but this maybe what was converted:
DKW
Gilera
Hercules from 1962
Husqvarna
Horex
Pat Slinn's C15 from '64 - the bike the Otter frame is built from
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And a Butler, unfortunately without the distinctive fibreglass. Built in 1963ff
- Butler trials, less f'glass bodywork.jpg (124.41 KiB) Viewed 7324 times
We tend to think most of the bikes back in the day were British, but looking at national & international results prior to 1 Jan 1965, I found considerable variety - at least 18 diff non-british manufacturers involved, so I'll finish this thread with bikes from those manufacturers. (It'll need a few posts)
One of the actual Bultacos ridden in the FIM trial at Grenoble, France in Oct '64 (courtesy Club Bultaco website). A converted M4 trail bike
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CZs
- cz-250-typ475-trial.jpg (47.28 KiB) Viewed 7324 times
Derbi - I couldn't find one in trials trim, but this maybe what was converted:
- Derbi 125S 1963.jpg (149.65 KiB) Viewed 7324 times
DKW
- DKW trials 2.jpg (43.44 KiB) Viewed 7298 times
Gilera
- Gilera 125 rg, c1965 jhg.jpg (66.42 KiB) Viewed 7298 times
Hercules from 1962
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Husqvarna
- HUsky 175 Trials, 62 SSDT.jpg (34.71 KiB) Viewed 7292 times
Horex
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Here is a recent photo of a local (Queensland) trials bike. The frame and motor are Moto Guzzi Stornello 125 4 stroke from the early 1960s
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and a lovely Matchless trials bike - also a local bike
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Following on from my last post, here's the rest of the non-Brit bike manufacturers:
Jawa 350 (probably modified from this)
Kreidler 50 (hard to take these seriously, but that's what they rode in trials)
Maico (there were quite a few Maicos of various sizes - 150, 175, 250 - in German & Swiss events)
Montesa - converted Impala's
Morini (Roger Decoster competed very successfully on one)
Motobecane
Novy (Belgian made). Couldn't find a pic in trials trim
Puch. Couldn't find a pic in trials trim from the era
TWN
Zundapp - the actual bike ridden back in the day by multi-national champ (Germany)
Thats the last of them - 18 different non-Brit manufacturers showing up in National & International observed trials results back in the day (1962-64) that I found in a quick search (no doubt there were more):
Bultaco, CZ, Derbi, DKW, Gilera, Hercules, Horex, Husqvarna, Jawa, Krediler, Maico, Montesa, Morini, Motobecanne, Novy, Puch, TWN & Zundapp
Jawa 350 (probably modified from this)
- Jawa 350 type 575 1963.jpg (51.88 KiB) Viewed 7127 times
Kreidler 50 (hard to take these seriously, but that's what they rode in trials)
- Kreidler 50 pre65.jpg (30.43 KiB) Viewed 7130 times
Maico (there were quite a few Maicos of various sizes - 150, 175, 250 - in German & Swiss events)
- Maico Trials.jpg (60.57 KiB) Viewed 7130 times
Montesa - converted Impala's
- Impala Trial.jpg (125.55 KiB) Viewed 7127 times
Morini (Roger Decoster competed very successfully on one)
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Motobecane
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Novy (Belgian made). Couldn't find a pic in trials trim
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Puch. Couldn't find a pic in trials trim from the era
- Puch250cc MC, 1957.jpg (116.62 KiB) Viewed 7130 times
TWN
- TWN Cornet trial 2.jpg (38.88 KiB) Viewed 7130 times
Zundapp - the actual bike ridden back in the day by multi-national champ (Germany)
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Thats the last of them - 18 different non-Brit manufacturers showing up in National & International observed trials results back in the day (1962-64) that I found in a quick search (no doubt there were more):
Bultaco, CZ, Derbi, DKW, Gilera, Hercules, Horex, Husqvarna, Jawa, Krediler, Maico, Montesa, Morini, Motobecanne, Novy, Puch, TWN & Zundapp
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Hi Everyone,
Thankyou John for your Exhaustive research and attention to detail
This is just my opinion and perhaps I am a Dreamer, but wouldn't it be nice to have more bikes like these being ridden at Trials
Thankyou John for your Exhaustive research and attention to detail
This is just my opinion and perhaps I am a Dreamer, but wouldn't it be nice to have more bikes like these being ridden at Trials
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Re: Showcase Time - Classic era bikes
Come on y'all
If you've got one and not riding it ..... list it for sale in the Trials Australia Classifieds.
There are eager buyers waiting.
If you've got one and not riding it ..... list it for sale in the Trials Australia Classifieds.
There are eager buyers waiting.
Old trials riders never die ......... their rocks just get smaller.