Maudes Trophy

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The Maudes Trophy is a motorcycle award established in 1923 by George Pettyt, owner of Maudes Motor Mart[1] based in Great Portland Street, London who promoted an impartially-observed endurance test for motorcycles and provided a challenge award to the ACU who participated by acting as the body responsible for providing observers.[2] Pettyt donated a silver trophy for the Auto-Cycle Union (ACU) to award annually, although over the years attempts proved to be infrequent.[3][4]

Winners

Year Winner Motorcycle(s) used Notes
1923 Norton 500 cc, solo Averaged 64 mph for 12 hours at Brooklands.[3]
1924 Norton Big Four with sidecar Ridden 4,060 miles from Land's End, Cornwall, England to John O'Groats, Highland, Scotland, and back in 18 days.[3]
1925 Norton
1926 BSA Demonstration of sixty climbs of Bwlch y Groes
1927 Ariel 557 cc Model B with sidecar Ridden for 5,011 miles without stopping the engine.[5]
1928 Ariel 250 cc overhead-valve
500 cc overhead-valve
10,000 mile endurance test over a 120 mile open road course.[6][7]
1931 Ariel Seven motorcycles:
  1. MB.32 (350 cc side-valve)
  2. M.2F.32 (350 cc overhead-valve 2-port)
  3. VB.32 (550 cc side-valve)
  4. VG.32 (500 cc 4-valve overhead-valve)
  5. SB.32 (550 cc side—valve "Sloper")
  6. SG.32 (500 cc 2-valve overhead-valve "Sloper") with sidecar
  7. 4F:6.32 Square Four
Seven tests, one for each motorcycle:
  1. Seven hour endurance run at Brooklands: 368 miles covered.
  2. Consumption test: approx. 700 miles on seven shillings worth of petrol and oil
  3. Head decarbonised in 4 min 19 s using only spanners from the motorcycle's tool kit (target time: under 7 min)
  4. One hour speed run at Brooklands: more than 80 miles covered. (target distance: 70 miles)
  5. Run for 70 minutes in each of four gears on ordinary roads
  6. Seven non-stop ascents and descents of each of seven famous test hills: Porlock, Lynton, Beggar's Roost, Countisbury, Bwlch y Groes, Dinas Hill, and Alt y Bady
  7. 700 miles in less than 670 minutes (target time: 700 minutes)[7][8]
1933 Triumph 6/1 motorcycle with Gloria sidecar Covered 500 miles in 498 minutes at Brooklands. (The combination had earlier won a silver medal at that year's ISDT)[9][10]
1934 Phelon & Moore 250 cc Red Panther Performance in Land's End Run: average speed greater than 35 mph (56 km/h), fuel efficiency of 115.7 mpg-imp (2.44 L/100 km; 96.3 mpg-US), "hands-off" stability at and over 50 mph (80 km/h)[10]
1937 Triumph Tiger 70
Tiger 80
Tiger 90
Machines chosen by ACU at random from Triumph dealers. Three hour high speed run at Donington Park followed by timed lap around Brooklands:

Tiger 70: 66.39 mph (106.84 km/h)
Tiger 80: 74.68 mph (120.19 km/h)
Tiger 90: 82.31 mph (132.47 km/h)[2][10]

1938 BSA M21 Combination
M23 Empire Star.
Endurance test:[11]
  • 20 climbs of Bwlch y Groes
  • Acceleration, speed, and braking tests at Brooklands
  • 20 more climbs of Bwlch y Groes
  • Crossing London in traffic, north-south and east-west, in top gear[10]
1939 Triumph Speed Twin
Tiger 100
Bikes chosen by ACU observers from Triumph dealers at random. Bikes ridden from John O'Groats to Land's End, and then across to the Brooklands circuit, a total of 1800 miles, followed by a 6 hour high speed run at Brooklands.[2]
1952 BSA 500 cc Star Twin, Three motorcycles were randomly selected from the production line and ridden to Austria to compete in the 1952 International Six Days Trial. All three bikes won Gold medals in the competition. The bikes were then ridden through Germany and Denmark to Oslo, where flying quarter-mile tests gave average speeds greater than 80 mph (130 km/h). The bikes were then ridden back to the UK, covering a total of 4,958 miles.[3][10][12]
1962 Honda Super Cub Three Honda 50cc motorcycles covered more than 15,800 miles at Goodwood in a seven-day continuous test.[10] Honda received the first manufacturer's award in a decade and held the trophy for 11 years.[3][13]
1973 BMW R75/5 Two motorcycles ran continuously over the Isle of Man TT circuit for a whole week, day and night, between 3–10 May 1973.[3]
1974 Suzuki GT380
GT550
GT750
Ridden three times around the coastline of Britain.[10]
1994 Yamaha FZR600 10 New Zealand riders average over 100 mph on standard bikes chosen at random from the UK warehouse in the Supersport 600 TT.

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