21/09/2026
ELECTRACTION / TM UK RACE REPORT: THEO JONES. Text by Huw Watkins.
A busy weekend, with the culmination of the British Youth enduro champs, hosted by the Army at Bagshot, where I always loved to ride.
This time it was being in Granch ‘pit crew’ mode for Theo-Ross Jones who needed a good ride to secure a championship podium in his first year on the TM Moto UK Electraction TM 125. Despite his main sponsor being on an Ireland to Tokyo mammoth ride, the wider TM family were out in force. This weekend we shared a pit with Gruff Morgan - looked after as always by Dai Morgan, who was a busy beaver all day!.
Theo and George Sheldon have done very well through the year, and we were hoping to finish off in style. George set the pace as usual but a derailed chain on his second test cost almost 2 minutes. He recovered to power round the third test, we couldn’t work out Theo’s times until much later when Manny Bernardez worked his magic interrogating his systems and came up with a narrow win for Theo - his first British Championship win, Securing runners up spot to a very worthy champion George!.
Thanks from me to all of the riders in the BYEC, and families for supporting it. Huge thanks to the clubs for welcoming us - onto the presentation at the NEC in November - little trip to Portugal in a couple of weeks for the ISDE first though - thanks to Beata Zsigo for the top action pictures, the boring pit ones are mine !
Once again, thanks to all those who help Theo get onto the line - particularly Michael Woodsworth of TM UK, whose encyclopaedic knowledge is like having a walking workshop manual and parts list to hand !!!