CLASSIC TRIALS BIKE
Motorcycle trials is a peculiar sport, having nothing to do with power and speed, just the dexterity of the person at the handlebars and the quality of the machine being ridden.
It was popular in Great Britain over a 100 years ago, when people set up courses over terrain that motorcycles were not built to go over, like a field of broken rocks or a steep muddy incline. Requirements for success were an excellent sense of balance, and a rapport between man and machine — apologies for the sexist approach, but it is pleasantly alliterative, and I doubt that any woman signed up for the 1909 Scottish Six-Days Trials. Many women are competing in
