Issue 71

Regulars

03 In Balance
A sad fact of life is there are those who covet our motorcycles and the niceties of offering to buy them doesn’t register with them.

06 News and views
There’s lots going on in the off-road world. As best we can in a quarterly publication, here’s the news.

43 Subscribe
How to make sure your copy of CDB drops through the letterbox, regular as clockwork.

56 JD’s view
Everything has value… sometimes the value is intrinsic, other times it is quite high… but the leveller is the auction.

82 Moto Memories
There was a move to lighter and smaller bikes in trials at the start of the Seventies and Alan Lampkin was one rider who championed Suzuki’s version.

Features

Events

52 We were there…
… in Northumberland for the first round of the 2024 ACU Classic Enduro championship.

58 Telford in ’24
The biggest and best gathering of off-road excellence in three exhibition halls with an autojumble outside too. Here’s
our glance at what went on.

75 Pre 65 Scottish
Certainly one of the biggest events we cover in CDB and a ‘must do’ for classic trials riders. We were up at the 2024 trial.

On the cover
For many trials riders the Pre65 Scottish Two Day Trial is the focal point of the feet-up year. The chance to ride a classic on sections with classic names – Mamore, Cameron Hill, Sleubhaich, Caolasnacon, Pipeline – proves a draw which ensures entries are oversubscribed every year.