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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nRemember when these two UK Mags were our weekly read to catch up on News, and results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tim Miller<\/a> \u00b7 <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00b7 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sammy Miller was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. After attending his first race at the age of 16 in 1951, he followed a career involving both road, <\/a>dirt\/grass track racing and observed trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Miller became British Trials Champion 11 times and won the European Trials Championship twice. In his continuing career, Miller is a winner of over 1,300 trials, nine gold medals and the International Six Days Trial, as well as coming in 3rd in the 1957 250cc Grand Prix in championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In racing he rode a variety of machines including AJS 7R, Mondial and NSU. Miller has won three 250cc North West 200 events (1956-1958).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Miller rode mainly Ariel Motorcycles, including both trials events and the Isle of Man TT races. When Ariel was absorbed by BSA in 1964, he formed a partnership with a Spanish firm, Bultaco, and went on to become the lead developer of modern two-stroke trials motorcycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his later professional racing career, Miller was involved with Honda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Miller is best known for the 500cc Ariel HT5 that he lightened considerably from standard ex-factory condition. The bike was famously known by its UK registration mark, GOV 132. It is now an exhibit in the Sammy Miller Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the 1960s he won the Scott Trial six times, twice on an Ariel and four times on a Bultaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He set up his own motorcycle parts business in 1964 in New Milton, Hampshire, and put a few of his old racing motorcycles in the corner, later to become the Sammy Miller Motorcycle Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As of 2004, the museum had a collection of hundreds of bikes. In 2007 he was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. He sold his parts business as Sammy Miller Products in 2007 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Note! We were Sammy’s Canadian Importer when he had his Trials Accessories business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sammy still goes into work at his Museum every day, even though he is now over 90 years old – here he is showing a crowd of visitors one of Mike Hailwood’s bikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When he was just 17 yrs old – Sammy built his own villiers powered 197cc Trials bike then with a bag on his back – took the ferry from Belfast to Scotland rode his bike in the Scottish Six Day Trial ( 100 miles per day) finished with an award, then rode it back to Ireland. These days we see the word “Legend” overused a lot, but in Sammy’s case it is certainly well deserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back in the 70’s we ran a Sammy Miller Trophy Trial in Alberta – I was lucky enough to win it once – The Photo engraved plaque was very special and supposed to be kept by the Calgary club – but I don’t know what ever happened to it – somebody must have it in their collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n =====================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Answer to the last quiz – Nigel Burgett on the JCM in 1989 at the Scottish – I can’t recall which section this was that I took this pic but it wasn’t Laggan. – as usual Brett and Bob were in quickly, followed by Stan . Quiz today another old one. Who is this? Remember… Continue reading Thursday November 7th\/24<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5726,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/5726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/another-Scottish-poster-773x1024.jpg\")
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