Sammy Miller

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Sammy Miller (born Northern Ireland 1935) is a championship winning motorcycle racer, in both road racing and trials. Today, Miller is still winning events more than 50 years later.

After attending his first race at the age of 16 in 1951, Miller followed a route involving both road, dirt/grass track racing and motorcycle trials. Miller became British Trials Champion eleven times and has won the European (World) Trials Championship twice. In his continuing career, Miller is a winner of over 1300 trials, 9 gold medals and the international six days as well as coming 3rd in the World Grand Prix in 1957.

He raced mainly for Ariel motorcycles, including both trials events and the Isle of Man TT races. When Ariel were absorbed by BSA in 1964, he formed a partnership with the Spanish firm Bultaco and went on to become the lead developer of modern two-stroke trials motorcycles. In his later professional racing career, he was involved with Honda.

He set up his own motorcycle parts business in 1964 in New Milton, Hampshire, and put a few of his old racing motorcycles in the corner - which eventually became the Sammy Miller Motorcycle museum.