New to Classic Trials – take a quick look here – Dave Dawson Interview
Welcome to my website….
I am Dave Dawson from Worcestershire, England. I started riding trials in 1996 at the relatively late age of 30, however have always been interested as my Dad has ridden for as long as I can remember. I am not new to 2 wheeled sport though as I had some success with podiums at British, National and European level in BMX in the early 80′s and also some success at Mountain Bike racing in the 90′s following a 10 year Army career.
I rode classic and modern trials for a few years but stopped in 2000 when the foot and mouth outbreak enforced a lay off and I found other things to do on Sundays. I started riding again at the end of 2006 and in 2007 I decided to keep a BLOG as a record of bikes, trials and all things related to my involvement in Trials.
Building and restoring older trials bikes can be a bot of a minefield and the challenge comes from trying to find the right source for parts. As I have spent a few years doing this leg work and chasing around all over the UK I felt that I could share this information to help other riders and cut down the time and cost involved. As there are relatively few websites that provide this information to Pre 65 or Twinshock riders I decided in October 2010 to move all of my BLOG information into this website and organise the information to make it a little easier to access.
If there is anything that you would like to see on here or any information that you are trying to obtain then please get in touch and I’ll see what I can do.
Please feel free to leave your comments or say hi – I hope you enjoy the site!
Looks good Dave, my boy will be very impressed. Good luck, BTW hope you have logged on to rmpib.com and told all your ex RMP friends about it.
Had lunch with Paul Cook a couple of weeks ago and Dave Stevenson has just started working with me.
Regards
Martyn
Thanks Martyn – just checked out RMPIB – I never knew it existed but will definitely use it – great idea!! See you soon hope Dave
Hi Dave, site looks fab, I’m very impressed. Hope you are ok, Julie
Hi Julie, good to hear from you. Did Andy carry on riding bikes? I have good memories of going to Bewdley with him and his Dad to ride his 125 Honda when we were kids – they were great times!! Dave
Dave , bike looks immaculate !! let me know if your riding Nr Bournmouth, I’ll try to get over.
Will do Paul – we dont go to south coast very often but the Perce Simon Trial is a round of the sammy Miller series and held in Ringwood each year so you’ll have to try and get across to that one.
Hi Dave, if you or anyone else for that matter know of any PAL mags for sale please let me know?
Cheers
/Ken…
Not sure Ken but will ask around. I had a BTH mag on my Ariel – superb but pretty costly, I understand they are around £750 now!! You might find something at Wrighty’s show if you are going?
The re-shoe place I was on about is:
http://www.saftek.co.uk/index.htm
They did a great job for me
Just found your site, i had the old blog site saved in my favourites but hadent visited for a while, and just wanted to say good job. Will call back this evening for a better look around when i have a bit more time. Keep it up.
regards
Paul
Thanks Paul – I will be adding your link to the site today. About time we had a dedicated pre65/twinshock parts site!
hi dave, just seen the picture of that new fantic on toyr web site have they started making trial bikes again cheers dan
Hi Dave,
I am glad you liked my electric car today.
I had a look at your site-your bikes look amazing (but my dad said they’re rubbish:)
cheers Ed
love the red swm dave could do with one of those rear brake peddles for mine
Thanks Juan – made in the garage of Dad I’m afraid so a definite one off!
Hi Dave,
Nice little video. and well put together . Film producer next then????
Regards Charlie.
Hi Charlie – thanks for the comment – I’m happy to ride with the head cam on but it helps having mates that do that sort of stuff for a living (usually on the front line in war torn countries though, so a trial was a bit on the tame side!)
Hi Dave – Great site with loads of useful info. I’m completely new to trials (I’m 45) apart from playing with a TY175 years ago but not competitively, and I fancy getting into it on the classic side. I’m used to building and restoring old classic scooters so if I can’t find a complete long term (cheap) project I might buy a frame such as the Faber Otter and then source the parts as cheaply as possible with a view to riding it in 2012-ish. Any chance you could list or email me any other frame builders that you know of please. By the way I don’t think I’m too far away from you, I’m in Stourbridge.
Hi Dave,
Recently bought a nice 78 TY 250 and good trailer – planning to have another go after thirty odd years. I’m only a stones throw from stourbridge (between Belbroughton and Bromsgrove). Let me know if you fancy going to a few local trials when you’re sorted. Great site.
Regards, Mark
Great to see you at Red Marley Dave, the SWM looks a treat, some nice work and plenty of thought has gone into it, see you soon Steve.
Thanks Steve
dave you and your dad do the best work on swm very good do you got any manual s you put on the web site for swm tl 320 1983 thanks .
Sorry Guy but I dont have any SWM manuals. You could try Martin Matthews at MotoSWM
… better luck next year. Very funny…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLWKQ55EQr4
Very Funny!
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Greetings to you all, I am from Quebec
I visited this site, I find suberbe, there’s some nice vintage trials. I have 2 TY ( 75′-77′ ) & 1 SWM 320 81′
Regards, Jacques
Jacques – welcome to the site – I hope you find it interesting – Dave
Nice blog! Glad people are still keeping our beloved twinshocks alive and talked about!
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