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=================================== Good morning bloggers !!! The question I think for today is “Has winter now arrived?” Anyway – answer to the last quiz – it was a pic of John Jones at the 1971 Western Canadian National trial, riding a converted Kawasaki Enduro 175- sponsored by Kaw Importer Manley’s of Ontario. – John was lucky… Continue reading Thursday November 27th/25

=============================== Answer to the last quiz – Tommi Ahvala on the Fantic – We saw him on the first version of this new model at the 1995 UK World Round at Hawkstone Park, and have a few pics of him, plus a video of him tumbling down and out in one section, which left him… Continue reading Wednesday November 26th/25

=========================================== Answer to our last quiz – One of our regular bloggers – Harlow Rankin pictured riding up on the hill at Cochrane Alberta, when he was a Beta Dealer for Don Clark. – Yes He got that one!!! also, Brett, Roger and Walter Cukavac. Quiz today – Guess who ============================================ This showed up on… Continue reading Tuesday November 25th/25

==================================== Answer to the last quiz – our good friend (rip) Bob Work the Race manager at Yamaha Motor Canada while I worked for that company – we shared a lot of very good times both at the various functions and at race events, plus testing snowmobiles. – Although it was not my official job… Continue reading Monday November 24th/25

==================================== Answer to the last quiz ( nobody got it) – the rider is Terry Porter – the pic taken by John Whitby at the 2nd long distance trial we put on in Alberta – -rain and sleet that day pretty ugly!! – Terry moved to Toronto with a job at Air Canada and we… Continue reading Sunday November 23rd/25

=============================== Good morning bloggers, here we are heading into another weekend, and still no white stuff outside, which is great!! but already a lot just 15minutes away up the hill at Silver Star – it reminded me of the time we explored that area with Andrew Christiansen, to check out the possibilities for a Championship… Continue reading Saturday November 22nd/25

Good morning Outlaw bloggers!! – Another early day searching the web for the latest news. – in the Trials world, that means the Costa Brava 2 day Classic in Spain, so we will keep an eye open for results from that . – one of the favorites has to be Dan Clark on the Beta… Continue reading Friday November 21st/25

Today I’m wearing my new TDN cap – kindly sent to me by Stan Bakgaard – it even has a neat Walt Healy badge on the side -a real “Keeper” ========================================= Answer to the last quiz – An easy one – Renato Chiaberto – Harlow, Stan, Brett and Pete Varey got it also Steve ORorke.… Continue reading Thursday November 20th/25

================================= Answer to the last quiz – our buddy from Victoria Harold (Turk) Perepalkin – – Brett got it. As did Roger Boothroyd – Turk has been a Victoria club member for decades, and ridden everything from old style scrambles, trials -and perhaps his favorite ISDT events. – He told us that the 125 IT… Continue reading Wednesday November 19th/25

================================= Answer to the last quiz – Dan Hemmingway – of the famous Yorkshire Trials family – Bob Clark got it first. Quiz today Who is this Trials/Enduro rider? Hint – He is a Canadian !!! ============================================ I see the great Dave Curtis has died – a big guy always saw him on a Matchless… Continue reading Tuesday November 18th/25