hen you think of trials riding, you might envisage scenes of skilful, considered and precise displays, with riders leaping unimaginable distances and landing on the kind of surfaces even a mountain goat would render ridiculous. In my head, that was how I'd perform on the GasGas 2023-spec TXT Racing 280 – but reality slapped me back in my box harder than a punch from a street brawler. I'd only been toying around with the TXT for a matter of minutes, feeling proud of myself for finally kick-starting it into life, when I came across a seesaw and decided I'd get involved. How
