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PRE-65 Scottish Two Day

SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS James Harland (Triumph)

This year’s prestigious and internationally recognised Pre-65 Scottish Two Day trial was hit with a shock decision on the first day, Friday, that curtailed the 29th running of the event from a planned sixty section event to one of just fifteen hazards over one day. As severe wet weather conditions hit the Kinlochleven area and its surrounding hills it was a case of ‘Scotch on the Rocks’ as James Harland took the win on his 350cc Triumph Twin. The results show that the four-stroke machines were at their very best in the deep water as the top finishing positions went to an array of Triumphs, Ariel and BSA machines. The severe conditions brought a change to the planned route by the organisers who cut out the scheduled Blackwater Moor loop early on Friday morning and reduced the single lap, thirty sections route, to two laps of fifteen sections using sections adjacent to the roads leading to the village and then delayed the start by an hour to eleven o’clock. In the end the riders only covered one lap as the weather conditions worsened.

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espite the weather threat and heavy overcast skies around the start area, late entries were still being allocated on the Friday morning of the event to fill the one hundred and eighty riding places available.

After a time consuming machine examination which was carried out in riding order number to check machine eligibility, the trial eventually got underway as riders were officially started by means of a ride over the raised starting ramp.

Unfortunately the invited guest of honour and starter, Mike Ransom, was taken ill whilst travelling to the event and was forced to return home. It was a former Chairman of the Pre-65 SSDT Committee, Archie Plenderleith, who was able to step into the breach at short notice and he did a sterling job during the very wet Friday start and also at the awards presentation on the Saturday. As is always the case in this event ‘even’ numbers went one way to the famous Pipeline sections whilst the ‘odd’ numbers began their days sport at Garbh Bheinn at the side of the road.

At Cnoc-a-Linnhe, the next group of hazards for the ‘odd’ numbers, it soon became apparent that many problems lay ahead as the four sections in the group witnessed the water level start to rise at a very rapid rate as the rain continued to cascade down. Such was the problem that many riders did not want to enter the raging torrent with their much treasured and expensive machinery. Back around the corner at Pipeline the ‘even’ riding numbers found the steep hazard in a very good mood despite the rain continuing to fall with grip on the rocks in abundance, although if you were just an inch off the riding line the loose rocks would take away your momentum and turn the nice clean ride into a quick five as many riders found out. It was interesting to listen to the comments from the hardy band of spectators who said they had never witnessed as much rain coming down the steep path at the side of the famous pipeline which years ago used to carry water down to the aluminium works in Kinlochleven below. With the late start and the rapidly changing weather conditions it soon became obvious that to ask the riders to compete two laps and also for the observers and officials to stand out for the same duration, problems were likely to occur. The word was soon circulated that the event was being cut to one lap, which, despite some complaints, was without a doubt the correct decision. Out of the entry of one hundred and eighty riders there were a total of thirty who had retired from the event.

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Best Scottish Rider Class Winner: Les Winthrop (Triumph)

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When Roy Peplow won the 1963 Scottish Six Days Trial on his four-stroke 199cc Triumph Tiger Cub it was the first major win for a smaller capacity machine in such a prestigious event. During the seventies many 125cc powered two-stroke machines would feature in the results at National level and proved very popular as four-strokes went out of fashion, “too big and too heavy” was a common expression. The early seventies would literally see a ‘power’ struggle as the Spanish and then the Japanese trials machine manufacturers decided that producing engine capacities such as 450cc with the Kawasaki KT was the way forward. Italian brand Fantic was a mass producer of mopeds and had a really good little Minarelli 125cc engine which they decided would be ideal for the trials market and would change the trend away from large capacity machines and prove ideal to introduce new riders to the sport.

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he Fantic 200 story in the UK starts with the company Barron Euro Trade who was the Italian Fantic brand importers which was headed by enthusiastic business man Roy Carey. On a factory visit in the mid-seventies he had asked about the possibility of a small engined trials machine to allow Club level entry riders to have a machine suitable to give them an introduction to the sport of trials. Carey was a very forward thinking guy who had the vision of the trials motorcycle entering the growing leisure market having noted the success of the Japanese Yamaha TY 80cc and 175cc machines. They released the 125cc trials machine at the Earls Court Show in London in August 1977 with a price tag of £729.00 and it immediately attracted the eyes of the motorcycle trade who could Classic Trial Magazine 2013 • Issue 5

see the potential of the new machine, despite the fact that it looked as though it needed a little more development. Schoolboy rider Steve Saunders took the British Youth ‘B’ Class Championship and to prove the machine’s potential, he followed this up winning it again in 1978. At the 1978 SSDT Carey had two riders entered on the Italian machines. Carey called his old friend Don Smith to help him promote the new trials brand.

Smith had been out of work when the Kawasaki trials project was over and relished the new challenge and along with rising star Geoff Parken they were entered in the 1978 SSDT, the only two Fantic machines in the whole entry. Both machines finished with flying colours with Parken in an inspiring 44th place.

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