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    Feb 13, 2017 4 minutes
    Words: Tim Britton Pics: Nick Haskell

    To perform well on the world stage was always the aim of the UK’s motorcycle industry throughout its existence and the International Six Days Trial was tailor made for this purpose. When it was launched in 1913 the idea behind the event was to showcase what ordinary, or lightly modified machines could do and as such our home industry embraced it. Gradually though, the focus of the two-wheeled world changed and motorcycles became leisure vehicles rather than transport, but the UK industry soldiered on with lightly modified road bikes for the national teams. Or at least they did until the mid-Sixties when things had to change. In effect the home industry was

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