Trials magazine 121 – October 2025

On sale from 26 September 2025

Preview – X-Trial Leeds 2026

Gabriel Marcelli is the latest confirmed rider for X-Trial Leeds 2026 om Saturday 24 January 2026 at First Direct Bank Arena.

International Sport – FIM Trial World Championship 2025

Great Britain welcomed the FIM TrialGP World Championship after a seven-year break with the final rounds of the 2025 season in early September and the crowning of the champions. Our 13-page report looks at all six classes.

Classic International – 1985 FIM World Trials Championship

Frenchman Thierry Michaud is the 1985 world champion but Britain’s Steve Saunders wins round 12 at Miltenburg, near Frankfurt in Germany,

Classic Prototype – Fournales 320 Trial

In 1982 Jean-Pierre Fournales created a revolutionary prototype trials machine, the Fournales 320 Trial – a project so ahead of its time that today several of its innovations remain relevant to the evolution of the trials motorcycle.

Classic Flashback – 1995 Scott Trial

A warm October morning in 1995 welcomed 142 riders to take on the challenge of The Scott Trial. Rocky Crawford won on the Hamilton Cables-sponsored Yamaha TYZ to reclaim a title he won as an 18-year-old in 1990.

Classic Trials Machine – RTX

With the cost of most new production machines prohibitive to many people in the 1990s, the arrival of the low-cost brand RTX would address this problem.

Classic What’s the Story? – Aprilia TX-300: Part 2

Valenti Fontsere talks with Marcello Stampacchia, creator of one of the most beautiful trials machines of its time: the Aprilia TX-300.

Remembering – Bernard Gore

We pay tribute to Bernard Gore, known as the Welsh Sammy Miller for his similar dedicated and determined riding style.

Reflection – Trial2 Class Championship

If competition at the very top in TrialGP continues to be for a small band of elite riders, will the Trial2 class become the competition to win for riders and manufacturers?

Youth Trials Competition

The first year of the restructured ACU British Youth Trials Championship has been a huge success across the four new classes. The final results are in.

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