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Bill de Garis
Inducted 2019

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​22-Time NATC class champion, world traveler, adventurer and author.... here is more about "Billy d" from his Amazon books page:

  • Bill (Billy d) de Garis was born in England, grew up in New Zealand and spent several years travelling around the world.  First on a 250cc Jawa motorbike from Sydney, Australia through India, Afghanistan and Iran to England; then an epic journey in an old Morris Isis shooting-brake (running mostly on bald tyres salvaged from rubbish dumps around London) together with two New Zealand friends on their honeymoon.​  The journey started in London, went across the Sahara desert and darkest Africa and ended up in Kenya.
  • He now lives in Port Moody, a city-suburb of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada.
  • He has been writing short stories and poetry since the late 1960's.
  • He is better known as an off-road motorcycle competitor in East Africa (seven times Kenya motorcycle champion) but also raced on tarseal-in India and Sri Lanka he won several roadraces including the Air India Grand Prix in Bombay (now Mumbai).
  • He is also the first person to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro (19,340ft) on a motorbike (250cc CZ).​
  • He now competes on a Gas Gas Trials motorbike in the US National Trials Championship.

Rode the Scottish Six Days Trial in 1991 (along with Jerry Young)

22-Time Class Champion
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Learn more about "Billy d" by listening to his interview on the Trials Australia Podcast.
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