laird387 Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hi, Riding in the Jack Englefield trial at Mortimer in 2001, Mike Endean with his newly-restored AJS 16C rigid. Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted February 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2014 Hi,Also riding at Mortimer that day in 2001 was Andy Bamford with his 410 Matchless replica.Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted February 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 Hi, The image this time is arguably of the last AJS trials model ever assembled! When faced with liquidating the company AMC opted to ship a batch of twelve kits of trials bike parts to Arter Bros., who had been doing sub-contract work for the factory on various items and were owed significant amounts of money for the work - the kits of parts had value and were therefore shipped in an agreed deal to offset some of the debt. Arters then assembled the bikes and eventually sold them. The factory had already numbered the frames and engines before the parts went to Arters - normally the Plumstead competition shop would have made sure all the engine numbers tied up with the correct frame number - but Arters made a mistake - there were two bikes, one with the last frame number, this one owned by Peter Ainley - the other had the last engine number, owned by Mick Waller, then sold to Ralph Venables. So which was 'the' last? I, on the other hand owned the very last complete AJS trials bike actually assembled in Plumstead - so I was happy that mine was the correct 'last bike'!!! Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Hi, The very last throes of AMC in the trials world resulted in the AJS 37AT 250cc two-stroke trials bike, this example, photographed by Alan Vines, was ridden by Bristol’s Chris Watts - very successful in the Wessex Centre - at the Don Mountstevens Trial on 8th February 1970. Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted February 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Hi, The moment when Keith Court (AJS) almost becomes submerged in a stream section, during the Southampton Club’s President’s Cup Trial, in February 1962. And there are those that suggest that trials years ago were 'easy' .............. Enjoy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted February 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Hi, Seen at the 1999 Ilkley Reunion trial Dave Richards with his rigid AJS. Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted February 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2014 Hi, Riding in a 1992 Yorks Classic trial, Dave Emmott with his rigid AJS. From the outset we set two routes through the sections - or, where that was not realistic because of the size of the rocks, or whatever - two separate sections, simply to encourage less capable riders with less capable models, to come and join in the fun - and the club grew very quickly and was very well supported as a result. Dave usually chose the 'harder' of the two routes - riders of more advanced years whose bones didn't mend so quickly chose the easy. Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 2, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2014 Hi, A very standard looking AJS model 16CS, 1962-3, spotted I think in the 1998 Scarboro' Two-day - and has Pete Robson got a double? Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hi, July 1949, Hugh Viney in the 'Allan Jefferies' trial. Note the so-called ‘intermediate’ front brake, with a Viney alloy brake plate, but on the other fork leg, compared to the standard fitting, to get the servo assistance to the braking. The individual touches that sort the men from the boys......... Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Hi, Hugh Viney on his works AJS in the 1949 Southern Trial. Note that the ex-WD front brake, as correctly fitted to the trials models for that year, has a typical 'Viney' alloy brake plate. Constant development we used to call it.......... Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hi, Roy Smith with one of the AMC triallers that he restored and rode in pre-65 trials. One of the AJS models that Roy restored to showroom condition was the ex-Mick Waller AJS used by Ralph Venables. Roy's restorations were complete, mechanical and physical. Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hi, West Leeds club stalwart Tommy Wortley rode for AJS immediately after the war. Spotted here by Ted Walker in the ‘48 Cotswold Cups. Enjoy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hi, Hugh Viney in full ‘plonk’ mode in the 1953 Travers Trophy trial. Enjoy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hi, Is that a rare smile of satisfaction from the Maestro, High Viney, as he conquers a section in the 1954 Allan Jefferies trial? Enjoy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laird387 Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Hi, In the Fourth Norman Trial, organised at Beaval-en-Caux in Normandy as a memory of the St Cucufa Trial, close by Sainte Genevieve church the Briggs/AJS combination that gave a combined age of 129 years to win the coveted ‘oldest combined age’ award – apparently, in the land of the Pixies, Ajays with girder forks were fitted with unique alloy motors . . . . . Enjoy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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