Dealer Visit • Doble Motorcycles
TRIALS TIME DOBLE MOTORCYCLES
As a successful motorcycle dealership, Doble Motorcycles has a strong and solid relationship with Honda on the road-related side of the business. It was a visit to the hugely successful DL12 Indoor Invitation Trial in January 2023, where the idea to move into the trials world was born. They had taken on the Honda Off-Road franchise two years earlier and started to stock the successful four-stroke Cota 4RT range. Honda UK had invited its dealer network to the Sheffieldbased DL12 competition, and for many, it was their first view of the two-wheeled world of motorcycle trials. Representing Doble Motorcycles was Paul Styles, one half of the business partnership with Mike Doble. Paul soon recognised the superb skills of the trials riders and, off the back of this, decided to make it official that they would move into the trials market from their base at Coulsdon, in Surrey. Words: John Hulme and Paul Styles • Pictures: Trials Media, GFV Media 104
April-May 2023 • Trial Magazine
