Vintage Vines • 1972
EURO WINNER
MICK ANDREWS
(OSSA-GBR)
No, we are not talking of a lottery winner, but Mick Andrews (OssaGBR), who, by the time the year ended, had retained the European Trials Championship, having first won it in 1971; he was a very happy man. At a time when English riders and Spanish motorcycle manufacturers still dominated the trials world, this title was the one to win. Ossa had a new machine, the MAR (Mick Andrews Replica), and they knew the victory would secure sales of the new model. The first production batch of the very first MAR Ossa replica machines had arrived from Spain at the London Show just before the European season commenced in Belgium. Mick Andrews had his own machine, but the first production models would go to the official UK importer Peter Fletcher and his riders Mick Bowers, Arthur Lampkin, Dave Thorpe and Bill Wilkinson. The Spanish machines dominated the trials market, and it was big business in the early ’70s. Very shortly, the Japanese would start to take a serious interest in the appeal of trials as a family sport. Words: Classic Trial Magazine, Mick Andrews • Pictures: Alan Vines, Yoomee Archive
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Martin Lampkin (Bultaco-GBR): On the new 325cc Bultaco; one week earlier he had given the new machine its first ever ACU British Championship win at the Cotswolds Cup Trial.
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