Nowt like a winner
Montesa, despite being the second of the Spanish manufacturers to enter the trials fray in the Sixties, soon had a worthy product, thanks to the help of riders such as Charlie Harris who suggested the initial mods needed to their trail type bike and indeed brought the Barcelona company its first successes.
He was followed by Don Smith and Gordon Farley, who did so much to popularise the model and Farley was to take the British trials championship on his works developed machine. As ever, with such success to promote the machine, sales were on the up – it helped of course that the product was a good one and in many cases easier to ride than the opposition.
Once Jim Sandiford got to grips with the importership, Montesa in the UK were on the up and by the time this particular bike was produced in 1978/1979 (it’s a ‘T’ reg), Sandiford and Montesa were major players. They had an enthusiastic team in
