Press Trial 30th November 1972 Once a year the great and the good from the motorcycle press plus commentators gathered to compete in the "Wayzgoose" Trial. At one time in orchards around Swanley it gravitated to the woods around the circuit at Brands Hatch. The plot was to borrow a famous riders machine dress in disguise and get muddy and then tipsy!
Robinson with one of Edgar Jessops many offspring in Arthur Wheelers Ariel 500 outfit won the Uncle Rowe shield three times over a 1959 to 1987 Press Trial Career.
Today the Press Trial takes place but journalists are not as well known as they were of yore. The famed Denis Jenkinson once replied when described as a journalist that he was actually a writer as journalists made it up! |