Classic Dirt Bike

Time does not stand still

Having enjoyed the first couple of 2018 Kia National Twinshock Trials rounds in North Wales and County Durham respectively, both excellent events that rightly drew impressive three-figure entries, it occurred to me what a phenomenon the Britshock thing is.

Of course, by Britshock I mean the class that has, almost by osmosis, emerged from what started out as Pre-65, but which has subsequently been stretched to Pre-72 or thereabouts.

Britshocks, to the uninitiated, are new-build Twinshocks loosely based on something that started out as a British-built machine, or at least bits of one.

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