John Lee & Sons Motorcycles based in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, celebrated its 60th anniversary by taking over the town’s market square car park, opposite the shop, to hold a trials demo day and off-road bike display on 10 August. Riders attending included six-time world trials champion Adam Raga from Spain and the On The Edge motorcycle display team from Cheshire.
One of the UK’s leading trials and GasGas dealers, with agencies for Beta, Sherco, TRS, Vertigo, and Oset and with 450 new bikes in stock, the business is now run by John Lee’s sons, Chas and Jack, who have built it up into an off-road empire. Both are expert off-road competitors.
The business was started by John Lee in 1964, initially assisted by Gray’s of Thrapston, Northamptonshire. Lee took on a Honda agency along with various off-road marques, including Bultaco. He was a works Butler trials rider and ten-time South Midland ACU Centre trials champion. Now 85, Lee handed over the business reins to his sons in 2015, but remains a partner.
The anniversary day celebrations also included a line-up of road and off-road bikes from Northamptonshire Police, John Lee’s mechanic Alex Wigg’s 2006 championship-winning trials machine and the last bike ridden by John Lee in the Scottish Six Days Trial.
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