Mornin’ bloggers – another day to watch the TV news and of course hope not to see any new Fires.!! Answer to the last quiz – Joan Pons with the yellow leader plate on his bike at the Scottish, the year he won. – Brett, Peter,rRoger and Bob all got that one. Quiz today. Who… Continue reading Saturday August 15th/26
Friday August 14th/26
Mornin ‘ bloggers – another Friday and yes another hot day expected, with no real rain in the forecast – As you all know, most areas are shut down for riding in BC including Ioco and the VMC property, the fire danger is still so extreme. Obviously, our thoughts and prayers go out to anybody… Continue reading Friday August 14th/26
Thursday August 13th/26
Answer to that last quiz – easy if you were into Photography back in the day, when you really had to know what you were doing to get a good action pic. – The technique shown was called “Panning” – when the Photographer followed the subject through the movement while clicking the shutter at the… Continue reading Thursday August 13th/26
Wednesday August 12th/26
With all the Fire concerns, I thought I would post our location on the north side of Vernon – So far- so good!!! Answer to the last quiz – Famous Amos Bilbao – always quite the spectacular rider when younger. – Pete Varey, Brett, Bob, and Roger all got it. Quiz today a technical one… Continue reading Wednesday August 12th/26
Tuesday August 11th/26
================================= The above pic was taken up on Vernon Mountain a few years ago, and shows our beautiful Valley – how sad that so much of the South/west area has been destroyed by fire. ========================================== Although things are ok at present, things can change quickly, so we have packed up some of the stuff in… Continue reading Tuesday August 11th/26
Monday August 10th/26
============================================ Mornin’ bloggers – With the fire situation in the valley and in particular Summerland being in total chaos – I thought we would devote today showing more pics of our great trials area that we had and some from the outlaw trial which we held there starting 1987. From top to bottom – The… Continue reading Monday August 10th/26
Sunday August 9th/26
=========================================== Above is a pic from a few years ago in the beautiful yellow meadow we just loved to visit in Summerland- As most of our bloggers know, they now have a raging Forest Fire in that area which is also threatening the City of Summerland. A total of 20,000 people have been evacuated, including… Continue reading Sunday August 9th/26
Saturday August 8th/26
With all the bad news about fires and smoke in our valley, thought i would post this shot from a ride we did over on the westside earlier this year – absolutely gorgeous day, -I was out on my favorite TRS 125.- and the good news is that we just got a phone call from… Continue reading Saturday August 8th/26
Friday August 7th/26
====================================== Mornin” bloggers – Another smoky day in the Valley, and not much news to report – the fires are still burning over Westside, now more in the Southern area , but more folks being evacuated. – We also saw a fire at Belcarra near Ioco so obviously no riding out there. -Unfortunately the forecast… Continue reading Friday August 7th/26
Thursday August 6th/26
Mornin’ Outlaw bloggers – We hope that you are all keeping safe in these troubling times with the unpredictable forest fires. Nothing much has changed for us, but they appear to have a handle on the Westside fires at least. – We have had no word from Roy so we have no idea how he… Continue reading Thursday August 6th/26