Answer to the last quiz –
Gilles Burgat and Charles Coutard – Brett was in first, followed by Harlow & Pete Varey. and Stan – Brett had all kinds of info on the SWM which like so many other small factories, fell by the wayside.
Quiz today – guess who! – he is Canadian.
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Here is a great shot by Neil Sturgeon, of Harry Hemingway, (Beta) who won the top class at the British Championship Round this past weekend. – (Go big or go home!! seems to be how it is in a lot of the trials at this level)
And here is another great pic of young Jamie Galloway (TRS) who took the Trial 2 Class at the same event.
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We had a nice visit yesterday with Robyn Nutt and her daughter who were in Vernon – we chatted about her Dad – Murray Nutt, an old friend and riding buddy from back in the day, who recently died. – This was a clipping in Cycle Canada from 1969-70 – when Murray won the Western Canadian Championship Trial at Blackfoot Park in Calgary, beating out all the hot shoes from the West Coast. as you can see I took the photo.. This was just before I started competing in Canada.
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Here is a pic from last Sunday’s trial in Llanfillin (Wales) a nice natural section – I remember I was in what was likely the first Trial that club ever put on back in the 1950’s, managing a 2nd place finish ( I sill have the small silver cup) who knows we might have even rode that same creek section.
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Finally we appear to be having our own private war with the Russians with our blog site being hit with a ton of spam every night – over 50 deleted just now.!!!! ( I need a missile of some sort to fix this )