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Hi,

Recently Graham Howes telephoned for a general natter - he rode most of the trials in the British Bike championships and the Sammy Miller series, plus the Arbuthnot, the Exmoor Two-day, The Scarborough Three days trial - so we had a lot of pleasant memories to recall.

Interestingly before 'finding' ORR and my various championships he had never ridden outside his home South Midlands centre - but finding his duplex framed rigid Gold Star in a swop with one of the early Honda trials gave him the introduction to a whole new trials world.

I was fascinated to hear that he still visits one of the B+B's that he found way back then - and they greet him as an old friend and only charge him the same every year.

Here we find him in rural Yorkshire riding in the Yorks Classic Captain's Trial on his springer B32C.

Enjoy.

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Dave Camm, a competent engineer, enjoyed his classic trialling - but he had always wanted to find one of the rare duplex framed rigid Gold Star trials models.

Why are they rare? - well to achieve a suitable steering head angle for trials use, the factory used the rigid racing frame - and the American market scours the world for that frame because it is the basis, for them, of a superb flat track racer.

When Dave spotted that Graham Howes had found one, he borrowed it, copied and jigged the frame then set to and made himself a couple of frames one of which you can see here in the bike that Dave made.

Enjoy.

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Hi,

Jeff Smith back on a B32C! At a demonstration event Jeff Smith gave the spectators a pure dose of nostalgia, borrowing Graham Howes rigid Gold Star to add realism - he also proved he had lost none of his touch!

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Hi,

Jim Bray was a rider from Birmingham in the 1950s, he, like most of us at the time rode trials in the winter months, then with minor modifications to the bike, scrambled in the summer.

Jim was fortunate in that from his earliest days a very close friend was Reg Slinn, who worked in the Competition Shop at Small Heath and was able to set Jim's bikes up as only such expert tuners can.

Here we see Jim on his BSA B32C in the 1949 Victory Trial.

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Hi,

This interesting restoration turned up as a spectator transport at an Ilkley Reunion trial in the late 1980s.

The only BSA/Watsonian combnations that I can recall in the ISDT were in private hands.

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