On doctor's orders
If you happened to pick up a copy of The Motor Cycle or Motor Cycling from the end of the 1959 trials season, you would see that down in the Southern centre, George Greenland had scooped that year's trials championship. Amazingly, 61 years on that same rider is still winning awards in trials and at 87 years of age must surely be the oldest active mud-plugger in the world.
Usually mounted on a Wasp-framed BSA Bantam, George is out most weekends in both the UK and on the near-continent, cleaning sections that would defeat many riders half his age. So George, how did it all begin?
"There was no background to motorcycling in our home and my father never owned a car or a bike. I started working at 14 and every Monday on the long trek home used to see a chap washing a very muddy motorbike down outside his house. I couldn't understand how it got to be in such a state, and one day curiosity got the better of me, so I stopped and asked him why his bike was always so filthy. He told me that he rode in trials and that the local club were running one the next weekend. If I was interested, I should go along and watch.
"I rode my pushbike to the start and then to some sections, I was hooked and knew from that moment on it was what I wanted to do. In those days
