Classic Dirt Bike

Beamish Tales

All four Japanese factories, Yamaha, Honda, Kawasaki and Suzuki, had a fad of producing trials bikes in the Seventies and all four somehow managed to produce machines that were not quite what they should have been.

WHILE the many and various Fantics and Honda TLRs dominate the booming twinshock trials scene, this issue's bedtime story features a slightly less obvious candidate. Are you sitting comfortably...?

The Beamish Suzuki trials models – while currently popular as restoration projects where marque specialist Steve Pitt does a cracking job providing spares – are

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