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with the Bullet the shining star of much of the company’s trials successes. Just three years after the introduction of the Bullet into the Royal Enfield range, a team of its riders took on the International Six Days Trial and were the only team to not drop a single point. In 1937 alone, Royal Enfield Bullet riders won a total of 37 trials trophies along with six gold medals in the ISDT, while post-war legendary British rider Johnny Brittain (a good patriotic name that) took the now swing-arm suspended Bullet through its most successful period in racing. Brittain gave Royal Enfield prestigious victories in the Scottish Six Days Trial twice, (1952 and 1957), the formidable Scott Trial twice (1955 and 1956), the tough British Experts Trial twice, where he was its youngest ever winner (1952 and 1953), and amassed over 50 major championship wins and a huge haul of open trial first places. KIWI RIDER 25