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The Spanish brand

Montesa, and Jim Sandiford go hand in hand. The Sandiford family have imported the machines since the late sixties. When Jim Sandiford passed away in 1993 it was his son and daughter Martin and Caroline who were left to continue with the business. They have successfully negotiated their way to enviable success with sales of machines, and competition success including SSDT and Scott Trial wins. In a male dominated sport it was Caroline who looked after the logistics. She has attended every SSDT since a very early age. With the change of direction in the Montesa/Honda trials importership she will not have the famous Montesa hospitality in the Parc Ferme, leading her to have her first holiday in May!

“I really don’t know what I’m going to do with myself that first week in May… It’s going to be very strange. My brother is sad but relieved... he really hated the headache that went with it all, but I still love that place and the event, it still is Dad for me… What will I do? .. I will probably still drive to Fort William for a few days’ holiday and for the first time in over 17 years watch some sections. That will certainly be a novelty, after having been confined to the Parc Ferme day in day out running our service for such a long time. I can’t NOT do the drive up through Glencoe, wave at the tree growing out of the rock (long story… but as kids Dad used to wake us up to look at the same! – Ask Hemmo’s and any Lampkin, they used to get woken up to look at it as well!) But yes, to watch some sections would be nice. Although I am sure I will feel like a spare part. No working out of delay times (Wow)... I can do them in my head I’ve been doing those for so long, but I’m sure someone will chuck their delay card at me with the words “Caz – how long have I got?” Don’t get me wrong, the 14 hoursa trip through (sometimes)the on that car park archivesis extremelyto look hard at work;the brandsthe loadingthat of all the spares, have the come setting and out gone of sincethe same,the oncethe preparation mightyand logistics British of motorcyclethe “hire” bikes, industry looking afterlost its riders…grasp on it’s the always sport classedof trialsin our that familythey onceas THE dominated. WORST The WEEKtide changedof the year… when but the it Spanishstill holds that Armada specialof place Bultaco,in our Montesa hearts. and Our Ossa hospitality arrived in the mid-sixties. It was then followed by the brands from the land of the rising sun, Japan, with Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki.

In the late seventies the Spanish tried to fight back with Ossa and Montesa but only Montesa survived when they merged with Honda. In the eighties the trend moved to Italian machines with Italjet, SWM and Fantic before Aprillia and Garelli joined them.

Here we take

was branded “second to none” – other “contracted” riders used to try and sneak in for some of our scram… we generally let them. This sport is so family orientated it is (and will be) very difficult for someone from outside to integrate and ours is certainly a VERY hard act to follow. To win with James in 2007 was unbelievable… Stood at the bottom of the hill with all my and James’s family before he rode up onto the finish ramp, and to see his (and team riders Jack Lee and Andy Huddleston’s) body language as they rode down the back street.. We knew he’d done it... I cried... Personally for me that year I needed that, he knew that and didn’t disappoint. It was utterly fantastic and a real team effort. Exactly what this sport is all about. As for Amos in 2002, well what can I say... Amos and this family have a friendship going back YEARS (Back to Cyclo Trials Days) and his win was very very special and was celebrated as only Amos can!!

Now I’m not going to get into the politics, the global meltdown and the impact that had on Montesa. The phone is ringing daily at the moment with the “Why aren’t you doing the Montesa service in Scotland?” and it’s a question we cannot politically answer. The switch to four-stroke (and being Withthe leaders)the sad should newshave pavedthat the Spanishway for motorcycle giants Gas Gas had ceased Montesa, productionbut across the of board machinesit increased earlierthe this year it follows a trend that has not

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3.0 Litre brand arrived in 2010 promising so much. As we

RRP: £X,XXX arrive half way through 2015 we have the following

CONTACT manufacturers producing trials machines: Beta, Honda, Jotagas, Montesa, Scorpa and Sherco with

T: 01245 227667 the promise of new machines from TRS, Vertigo

E: greevesracing@aol.com and W: Yamaha. www.greevesmotorcyclesltd.comWill they all survive? We will see.

In the mid-eighties the world changing monoshock Yamaha was the machine to have. At the close of the eighties, Gas Gas from Spain and Beta from Italy took the lead joined by Yamaha and they had many good years in the nineties.

As we entered the year 2000, Sherco emerged from Spain and Montesa/Honda joined the

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