Velo trials test
Anyone who has ridden at or been to either the Pre-65 Scottish or our CDB Northern British Bike Championship trials will have seen Chris Haigh’s superb Velocette. In a scene where excellent preparation is the norm, Chris’s bike takes things to a new level and it is a level we should all aspire to.
That aside, in the trials world Velocettes aren’t all that common, though thanks to Chris and one or two others in the Huddersfield Falcons club there’s now more of them out there. CDB got the chance to have a close-up look at Chris’s interpretation of a Velo trials bike and for good measure Paul Jackson was persuaded to bring his MOV and MAC along too.
The basis of Chris’s bike is one of Paul Jackson’s HT Ariel replica frames, which carries the oil in the frame tubes, thus saving the weight of an oil tank. Weight saving is an important consideration for any trials bike but more so with something using a separate engine and gearbox and a close inspection of this Velocette shows that not only has weight saving been attended to but there’s meticulous attention
