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Honda Riders by name

Hideo Tanaka

Peter Gaunt

Sammy Miller
Born 11 November 1933, Belfast, Northern of Ireland.

Year	Honda Bike used	World Championship	British Championship	SSDT Scottish Six Days
1974	250 Proto
1976	RTL 306

Toshi Nishiyama
Gordon Jackson
Bob Nickelsen
Marland Whaley
Nick Jefferies
Brian Higgins
Bob Colein

Derek Edgar

Year	Honda Bike used	World Championship	Japan Championship	SSDT Scottish Six Days
1977	TL 250			--

Hiroshi Kondo

Year	Honda Bike used	World Championship	Japan Championship	SSDT Scottish Six Days
1976	RTL 306
1977	TL200R		1st
1978	TL200R Special		1st
1979			1st
1984	Honda Kondo

Rob Shepherd

Year	Honda Bike used	World Championship	British Championship	SSDT Scottish Six Days
1977	200 Seeley	4th
1978	RTL305 long S.	5th
1979

Mark Eggar

Eddy Lejeune
Born in April 1961, Verviers, Belgium.

Year	Honda Bike used	World Championship	Belgium Championship	SSDT Scottish Six Days
1979		15th
1980	200 Seeley	4th	1st	12th
1981		4th	1st
1982	RTL360	1st	1st
1983	RTL360	1st	1st
1984	RTL360	1st	1st	2nd
1985		2nd	1st
1986	RTL250SW	3d	1st
1987		9th

Taneyasu Maruyama
Kiyoteru Hatori
Massaya Yamamoto
Steve Saunders
John Shirt Jr.

Takumi Narita
Born in April 1971, Kawasaki, Japan.

Year	Honda Bike used	World Championship	Japan Championship	SSDT Scottish Six Days
1989			1st
1990		12th
1991		8th

...Under construction, Sorry
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The Honda Trials riders by date

1963
Hideo Tanaka, Japan. Honda S90 Prototype.

1973 to 1988 First "Official" Honda Trial Riders

1973
Peter Gaunt, UK. Honda Jefferies XL250
1974
Sammy Miller (1033), Belfast, UK. Honda 250 Prototype, XL250 Engine based.

Sammy Miller

1973
Toshi Nishiyama, Japan. Honda TL125

1974
Gordon Jackson, UK. Honda 250 Sammy Miller

1975
Bob Nickelsen, USA. Honda TL 250
Marland Whaley (1958), California, USA. Honda 250
Nick Jefferies, UK. Honda 301 RTL
Toshi Nishiyama, Japan. Honda TL250
Brian Higgings, UK.

1976
Sammy Miller, UK. Honda RTL 306
Bob Colein UK. Honda TL 300
Hiroshi Kondo, Honda 306

Picture © The Honda Trials History webpage thanks to Mr. Hiroshi Kondo (property of the Picture)

1977
UK Honda Team: Sammy Miller, Rob Shepherd (5th position at world trial championship)and Nick Jefferies. US Honda Team: Bob Nicholson, Marland Whaley and Mark Eggar

Hiroshi Kondo, won Trials Japan Championship.

1978
Hiroshi Kondo, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.
Rob Shepherd, UK (5th position at world trial championship)

Rob Sheperd at Oberiberg, Switzerland for the 1978 World Trials Championship.
Please respect the Copyright of this picture that was kindly sent to me by Pat Criou.

Marland Whaley at Oberiberg, Switzerland for the 1978 World Trials Championship.
Please respect the Copyright of this picture that was kindly sent to me by Pat Criou.

1979
Hiroshi Kondo, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.
Rob Shepherd, UK (6th position at world trial championship), Eddy Lejeune, Belgium.(15th position at world trial championship)

Eddy Lejeune at World Trial Championship, Italy. Picture thanks to Gabriele Milan.

1980
Taneyasu Maruyama, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.
Eddy Lejeune, B (4th position at world trial championship), Rob Shepherd, UK (9th Position at world trial championship), Kiypteru Hattori, Japan.

1981
Eddy Lejeune, B (4th position at world trial championship), Kiyoteru Hattori, JP (22th position at world trial championship)

1982
Masaya Yamamoto, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.
Eddy Lejeune, Belgium (1st position at world trial championship)

Picture from Masaya Yamamoto thanks to The Honda Trials History friend Ryosuke Ikuno

1983
Masaya Yamamoto, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.
Eddy Lejeune, B (1st position at world trial championship)

1984
Masaya Yamamoto, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.
Eddy Lejeune, B (1st position at world trial championship).

Hiroshi Kondo tooke place at Scottish Six days with this special Honda. Picture thanks to Hiroshi Kondo.

1985
Masaya Yamamoto, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.
Eddy Lejeune, B (2th position at world trial championship), Steve Saunders, GB (3th position at world trial championship).

1986
Masaya Yamamoto, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.
Eddy Lejeune, B (3th position at world trial championship), Steve Saunders, GB (2th position at world trial championship)

Steve Saunders

1987
Eddy Lejeune, B (9th position at world trial championship) this year, Eddy left Honda Trials Team.

1988
John Shirt Junior, Honda RTL250 (HRC 270cc works Ex-Lejeune)

1988, The pink RTL250S (Ex Lejeune 270cc HRC special bike) John Shirt at Irish Experts Trial. Picture thanks to Stuart.

John Shirt Jr. at the SSDT 1988 with the nice RTL disk brakes. Picture thanks to John from Trialmag.

*John Shirt Snr. Picture Copyright

1989
Takumi Narita, 1st Place at Trials Japan Championship.

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