Dougie
Lampkin

He is renowned throughout the world as the upstart who showed the big boys how it was done. Born into a family already steeped in motorbike history – his father Martin was the first-ever trials world champion in 1975 – Dougie rode into the limelight in the late 1980s, astride a trials bike that looked way too big for him, on a BBC TV series in the UK called Junior Kickstart. Before long, Dougie had taken trials biking to a new level, both in terms of skill and public interest.

Dougie’s first major victory came at the European championships in 1993 and he has since accumulated a trophy cabinet most international sportspeople would struggle to match. In 2003, Dougie won his 12th individual world trials title – seven coming outside and five indoors.