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Most Expensive Trials Book Ever...

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check this on ebay, i've seen them go as high as 60 in the past and have paid 40 but at 100 quid for a paperback this has to be a record.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...p;rd=1&rd=1

what other 'how to' trials books are available? am i missing any..

max kings trials riding editions 1 - 5

lanes motorcycle trials

bernies observed trials

don smiths complete book of trials

don smiths trials bike riding

miller on trials

millers way to win trials

I has no idea I was sitting on such an investment. Wouldn't be so bad if the book was decently produced: the pages fall apart if you look at them hard enough.

QUOTE from ebay shill bidding policy:

"For the eBay marketplace to succeed, buyers must have faith in the integrity and fairness of the marketplace. Shill Bidding damages the integrity and fairness of the marketplace. For that reason, eBay has a policy prohibiting Shill Bidding.

eBay's policy on Shill Bidding is very simple:

Shill Bidding is bidding that artificially increases an item's price or apparent desirability, or bidding by individuals with a level of access to the seller's item information not available to the general Community. Shill Bidding is prohibited on eBay".

end of QUOTE

My trials bibliography:

Miller, Sammy:

Edited by Frost

I just reread that book and I'm looking at our copy right now, it's well worth having.

what other 'how to' trials books are available? am i missing any..

max kings trials riding editions 1 - 5

lanes motorcycle trials

bernies observed trials

don smiths complete book of trials

don smiths trials bike riding

miller on trials

millers way to win trials

"How to Ride Observed Trials Just for Fun!" by Carl Shipman (1973, USA).

Carl was one of my students at the week long Donner Trials training camps........ His notes from that camp became the text for that book.....

QUOTE from ebay shill bidding policy:

"For the eBay marketplace to succeed, buyers must have faith in the integrity and fairness of the marketplace. Shill Bidding damages the integrity and fairness of the marketplace. For that reason, eBay has a policy prohibiting Shill Bidding.

eBay's policy on Shill Bidding is very simple:

Shill Bidding is bidding that artificially increases an item's price or apparent desirability, or bidding by individuals with a level of access to the seller's item information not available to the general Community. Shill Bidding is prohibited on eBay".

end of QUOTE

Not talking about this seller. But as you mentioned shill bidding.

Ebay are against shill bidders.... Although successful shillers earn Ebay lots of money becasue they bump the final price (of their own item) up!

So isn't it unfortunate that the recent policy of protecting bidders identities makes it harder to see shill bids?

Motorcycle Trials Bibliography - compiled a few years ago.....

Trials Riding Max King 1st edition 1955 Temple Press

Trials Riding Max King 2nd edition 1960 Temple Press

Trials Riding Max King 3rd edition ???? Temple Press

Trials Riding Max King 4th edition 1972 Temple Press

Trials Riding Max King 5th edition 1975 Temple Press

Clean to the Finish, Sammy Miller 1974 BMS

The Greatest of all Trials, Phiilip H. Smith 1963, early Scott trial history

Two Wheel Horse the Enjoyment of Dynamic Balance, M. Camps Cardona 1971 Bultaco book

Sammy Miller on Trials, Sammy Miller, 1969 Transport Bookman

How to Ride Observed Trials Just for Fun, C.Shipman, 1973

Mick Andrews Book of Trials Tom Beesley, 1976, Patrick Stephens

The Will to Win, Jeff Clew, 1976, Sammy Miller story

Motor Cycle Trials Lane Leavitt & Len Weed 1978 Motor Cycle Trials

Ride It-the Complete book of Trials Riding, Don Smith ???

How to Win Motorcycle Trials, Sammy Miller/BMS

Trials Bike Riding, Don Smith 1980 EP Publishing

The Castrol Book of the Scottish Six Days 1982 Haynes

Observed Trials Bernie Schreiber & Len Weed 1983 Clean Sheet Enterprises

Classic British Trials Bikes Don Morley 1984 Osprey

British Trials Motorcycles, Ralph Venables, 1985 Bruce Main-Smith

Classic British Two-stroke Trials Bikes Don Morley 1987 Osprey

The Scottish 1900-62 Tommy Sandham 1988 Willow Publishing

Spanish Trials Bikes Don Morley 1988 Osprey

The Scottish 1963-89 Tommy Sandham & John Dickinson 1989 Willow Publishing

Four-Stroke Finale The Honda Trials Story Tommy Sandham & John Dickinson 1989 Willow Publishing

Trials - A Riders Guide Don Morley 1990??? Osprey

The Pre-65 Yearbook 1990-91, Deryk Wylde, 1991, Willow Publishing

The Sammy Miller Story, Jeff Clew 1993

The Scott Trial, Harry Bradley, 1994 Ariel Publishing

Phototrial 1994, Mario Candellone 1994

Phototrial 1995, Mario Candellone 1995

Phototrial 1996, Mario Candellone 1996

Six Days in May, Jim McColm 1995

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my favourites are Phil Smiths 'Scott Trial' fascinating insight into the early trials and its move away from a factory ride out to the trial we watch today

best how to book for me is Lanes 'motorcycle trials' simple stuff, explained simply and that works.

probably not much cop for your monoshock but for us pre 65 / twinshock boys hes saved me quite a few dabs.....

  • 2 years later...

Shill Bidding on eBay: A Case Study

For anyone who buys on eBay, I have prepared a detailed case study of another classic instance of blatant shill bidding and the abuse of eBay

I think I have one of the most expensive (new) books on trials - 'Observed' by Eric Kitchen, limited edition of course!

Big John

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