Page 23 Exclusive Mick Andrews 2014 Interview
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Who was your best friend on the trials circuit?
It’s hard to say, we’ve got a lot of good friends. We’ve got good friends in France who we’re going to be within a couple of weeks. We do schools with them. If anything’s wrong you can turn to these people. Maybe the best one be Bli Jove the Catalan guy who does the magical shocks and Myto oil out in Spain. 
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He’s our best pal out on the trials circuit. We help him out a lot and he’s helped us out a lot. One time I remember with Bli was when we called him and told him we had been mugged in Spain. We went to his house and he made a beautiful meal for us. The next morning he said we’ll go out for breakfast. We still had the bikes in the back of the Espace as we’d been over at Majorca doing the Championship. I got my bike in the back along with his bike. When we came out from breakfast the bloody Renault Espace has gone.
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Where’s that gone. The bikes and everything. We made some enquiries and some person had called the Police with the tow wagon. They had taken it away to the town compound and we had to pay 120 euros to get it back. What they had done. The compound was just around the corner so the tow truck just dragged the Espace round there and wore 4 flats on all of the tyres , so we had to have 4 new tyres and pay the 120 euros and we lost a day sorting it out.
Do you remember the Japanese journalists from Trials journal coming to see you here at your home? Yes, I do. It was a great magazine. It’s finished now. We did a lot with those people in Japan. We had two of Japanese riders here with their bikes and their bikes were stolen. We’ve had a lot of Japanese stay with us over the years. I remember doing a bit for TV down in Australia. They wanted to do the theme of me not wanted to be interviewed and the guy with the microphone chasing me around trying to get the interview. He come up to me alongside my bike and I would ride off cos I didn’t want to get interviewed. Then I would be riding through the park and I’d ride past a dust bin and he’d jump up out of the dust bin. I’d ride through the river and he’d come up out of the water. We did it all set up. That was the last shot was where we rode up to the tree. We lifted this TY 80 up the tree and I stood on it to get the interview ha ha ha ha. |
That was him managing to get me for the interview. He’s still got his shoes off where he’s been in the river. Apparently it went down a storm in Australia.
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On this one trip down to Australia I got off the plane and there was a bike waiting for me on the runway. I hadnt been told about it all , it was a big surprise. They then wanted by to so some Wheelies and ride over cars around the airport as well. I took my jacket off, put a helmet on and rode over this Volkswagen and done things on the runway. It was a big strange.
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Have you ever been to the Telford show Mick?
We popped in last year, but it’s normally at a time when you are busy. He’s rung me up already to see if we can go next year, but whether I can or not I don’t know. It’s too far away. I could be elsewhere. Next year it’s my 70th birthday year.
Here’s an Ossa wine, but it’s not really. Because Ossa in Spanish means bear. The little symbol for Ossa used to be a little bear.
We popped in last year, but it’s normally at a time when you are busy. He’s rung me up already to see if we can go next year, but whether I can or not I don’t know. It’s too far away. I could be elsewhere. Next year it’s my 70th birthday year.
Here’s an Ossa wine, but it’s not really. Because Ossa in Spanish means bear. The little symbol for Ossa used to be a little bear.
Here’s an Ossa wine, but it’s not really. Because Ossa in Spanish means bear.
Bultaco , Ossa and Montesa wines amongst others , all exist down in trial crazy Spain :)
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The little symbol for Ossa used to be a little bear.
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There’s the bultaco wine. There’s the montesa wine ha ha ha
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Another empty bottle worth keeping
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Mick continued to show me around his house. In one room there is this Dolly Parton pin ball machines. Mick and Jill are very keen country music fans.
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Loretta Lynn. That’s just come over from her in America. We did that motocross thing last year and was involved with the Ossa team. This one team had come up from Texas and one of my team mates. We were taking about music and they asked me what I liked and I said Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn and he said my girlfriend is Loretta Lynn’s granddaughter. Within a few minutes he had called Loretta Lynn and I was talking to her on the telephone. We’ve been invited to go to her ranch and everything. She’s a motorbike girl. Her ranch is a right good set up for motocross and trials. |
Here are some more photos as I walk around Mick's house. There are so many trials momentos , its great.
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