Mick Andrews

Mick Andrews, born in 1944 in Buxton, Derbyshire, is an English former international motorcycle trials rider. He was FIM European Trials Champion in 1971 and 1972, the series that became the FIM Trial World Championship in 1975, and he won the Scottish Six Days Trial five times, in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 and 1975, equalling Sammy Miller's record. He began competing in 1959 at fifteen, rode factory AJS and James machines, and spent six years with Ossa from 1967, developing the bike that became the Ossa MAR, the Mick Andrews Replica, still used in vintage events. In 1973 he moved to Yamaha, helping to develop the TY250 and later designing the TY80 and TY175. He competed in the world championship until 1980 and was named an FIM Legend in 2015.