ESTABLISHED IN 1968,DES HELYAR MOTORCYCLES HAS OVER 40 YEARS INVOLVEMENT IN MOTOCROSS.

 

DES HELYAR STARTED HIS SCRAMBLING CAREER IN THE LATE 50's RIDING SOUTHERN CENTRE,SOUTH WEST CENTRE EVENTS RIDING AGAINST NAMES

SUCH AS GOSS,RICKMAN,ENGLAND AND MANY MORE.IN 1968 DES HELYAR MOTORCYCLES WAS BORN.

 

DURING THE 1970's WE BECAME SUZUKI OFF-ROAD DEALERS AND TO DATE ARE THE LONGEST SERVING DEALER,WE WERE ALSO MAICO DEALERS.BY THE 

LATE 70's THE SHOWROOM WAS STOCKED WITH HONDA.BY THIS TIME DES HAD FINISHED RIDING AND ELDEST SON STEVE BEGAN WHERE HE WENT ON

TO BECOME A TOP SCHOOLBOY RIDER WINNING LOCAL CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS AND A TOP NATIONAL RIDER,RIDING FOR KTM AND SUZUKI.DURING THIS TIME

DES ALONG WITH OTHERS SET UP BERKS & HANTS SCHOOLBOY SCRAMBLE CLUB AND RUN EVENTS SUCH AS THE GOODYEAR NATIONAL AT KINGSCLERE.

 

IN THE 1980's STEVE FINISHED IN THE SCHOOLBOYS AND WENT INTO THE ADULTS RIDING BRITISH CAHMPIONSHIPS,SOUTH WEST CENTRE EVENTS AND

THE FAMOUS KEN HALL THROPHY.DURING THIS TIME DAUGHTER GAIL HAD BEEN COMPETING IN NATIONAL BMX EVENTS,FINIHING 2nd AT THE BRITISH

CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HER AGE GROUP.AFTER ALOT OF PESTERING DAD FINALLY GAVE IN AND ALLOWED HER TO START MOTOCROSS WHERE SHE WENT ON

TO BECOME A VERY GOOD RIDER GIVING THE BOY IN HER CLASS A GOOD RUN FOR THERE MONEY.THE SAME YEAR (1988) YOUNGEST SON PHIL STARTED.

THE SAME YEAR WE BECOME THE TRADER A PORTSMOUTH SCHOOLBOY CLUB AND OVER THE NEXT 8-9 YEARS HARDLY MISSED A MEETING,DES MUST HAVE FITTED

HUNDREDS OF TYRES AND KEPT SO MANY BIKES ON THE TRACK.A YEAR LATER WE BECAME BERKS & HANTS SCHOOLBOY CLUB TRADER.  

 

IN THE EARLY 90's WE BECAME KAWASAKI OFF ROAD DEALERS AND ALSO OPENED OUR NEW TWO STOREY SHOP.FOR THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF THE NEW SHOP ON

THE SECOND FLOOR WE HAD A MOTOCROSS BIKE MUSEUM WTH BIKES FROM THE 50'S THROUUGH TO LATE 80'S.BIKES INCLUDED GRAHAM NOYCE'S 1979 WORLD

CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING 500cc HONDA,1985 1986 1989 500cc WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING BIKES RIDEN BY DAVE THROPE,DAVE BICKERS CZ AS WELL AS OTHER

CLASSIC SCRAMBLE BIKES.BY THE LATE 1990'S WE HAD TO DO AWAY WITH THE MUSEUM AS THE OFF ROAD CLOTHING SIDE OF OUR BUSINESS GOT BIGGER AND

BIGGER.WE TOOK ON BRANDS SUCH AS FOX RACING,AXO SPORT AND FOR A SHOR PERIOD WE IMPORTED JT RACING FROM THE STATES.WE ALSO IMPORED ASV

FOLDING LEVERS,SUNLINE LEVERS,ZING RACING GRAPHICS,HRP BODYARMOURS.STEVE AND PHIL WERE BOTH COMPETING IN ADULT EVENTS.IN THE LATE 90'S

BERKS AND HANTS SCHOOLBOY CLUB FOLDED AND OE OF THERE OLD TRACKS WAS NO LONGER USED SO DES AND STEVE APPROACHED THE OWNERS AND IN

1998 COXFORD DOWN RACEWAY WAS OPENED OR AS IT USED TO BE KNOWN "POPHAM",BUT IT WAS NOTHING LIKE THE OLD POPHAM,GONE WERE THE WOODS

AND ADDED WAS A NEW SECTION WHICH INCLUDED STEEP BANKS.

 

 

TO DATE WE ARE STILL MAIN SUZUKI KAWASAKI DEALERS AND A HONDA BIKES AND PARTS.THE CLOTHING DEPT HAS CHANGED AROUND A BIT WE ARE NOW STOCKING SHIFT ,

TROY LEE DESIGNS , JT RACING , TCX BOOTS , SIDI BOOTS , AGV HELMETS , ACERBUS & 100% GOGGLES , LEATT AND MUCH MORE...THE ONLY THING DIFFERENT

IS WE NO LONGER HAVE OUR DAD (DES) WITH US.HE SADLY PASSED AWAY IN MARCH 2011 AFTER SPENDING A YEAR IN AND OUT OF HOSPITAL WITH

BAD HEALTH.HE IS SO MISSED BY ALL OF US.HE STARTED ALL THIS BACK IN 1968 AND WE WILL CARRY IT ON,HOPEFULLY BEING AS SUCCESFUL AS HE WAS....