Malcolm Rathmell

Malcolm Rathmell, born on 18 June 1949, is an English former international motorcycle trials rider from Otley in West Yorkshire. He won the Scottish Six Days Trial in 1973 and 1979 and took the FIM Trans America Trials Championship in 1974, a series that became the FIM Trial World Championship the following year. At home he won the British Trials Championship six times between 1971 and 1981 and the Scott Trial six times between 1971 and 1980. He rode for Bultaco, Montesa and Suzuki, finishing third in the first Trial World Championship season of 1975 on a Montesa and runner up in 1976, and he rounded out his international career with Montesa through the 1982 season. In 2013 the FIM named him an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements. A company bearing his name opened in the United Kingdom in 1991 as an Aprilia importer.