Classic Dirt Bike

Healthy situation

The good news is, as the 2019 competition season comes to a close, the classic trials movement, in all its many guises, is most definitely flourishing.

I say in all its many guises, as we have at long last, clearly, finally and without a shadow of a doubt, got away from the old Pre-65 constraints.

Trials has for far too long lagged behind it scrambling, motocrossing sibling which in recent years has been storming along, positively racing through the years,

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