Mornin’ bloggers – hope you are all enjoying the long weekend – no news yet from Ymir but I’m sure the Trial was a great success. We spent yesterday up in the Shuswap at our daughter’s summer place by the lake, a very nice day with not very much traffic on the hiway. – Not… Continue reading Monday September 7th/26

Mornin’ bloggers !! – We hope you are all enjoying this long weekend – weather is a bit unsettled, but that’s OK. I was quite surprised at all the birthday posts from people all over the World, some very unexpected, from old Yamaha days, and even Bernie Schreiber – quite overwhelming. – A big Thankyou… Continue reading Sunday September 6th/26

Mornin’ Bloggers – Today is quite a special date, as it’s Steve Baker’s and my birthday. -Here are a couple of pics, I got to know Steve quite well during my Yamaha Canada days. – Steve is 74 today, but I turn 89- Also sharing this date is Doug McCrae of Calgary, – who used… Continue reading Saturday September 5th/26

============================================ Answer to the last quiz – Marc Colomer 0n the Mont – this came after he was on Beta. – Roger, Brett and Pete Varey all got it. Quiz today. – Who on what? ========================================= I saw this pic posted and it reminded me of when we did the rebuild on Walt’s TT 500… Continue reading Friday September 4th/26

Mornin’ Bloggers – We are happy to report that we have had quite a lot of rain in the Valley – hopefully this will put out the fires still burning, but it might take a lot more. Answer to the last quiz – which we did not get any results – it was Brian Stonebridge… Continue reading Thursday September 3rd/26

==================================== Mornin’ bloggers – hope you are all getting fired up for riding this long weekend – there is a reason I posted the pic above, as it shows me out on my TRS 125 – and as many of you will know, this is one of my favorite bikes. Also I just noticed that… Continue reading Wednesday September 2nd/26

==================================== The Ymir Outlaw Trial goes this weekend and should be a real treat – here is a pic of one of the new natural sections with Steve Day standing at the top. =========================================== winners at the last ATA/ATAQ Trial with Felix Belanger (Beta) the top Expert.. – Some familiar names in the results. ==================================… Continue reading Tuesday September 1st/26

Well ! It’s the last day of August and thankfully we have some cooler weather – – Not sure if anybody got out – I know they had a Trial in Ontario and there was also a World Round that Harry Hemmingway got a 3rd spot so kudus to him on that – there has… Continue reading Monday August 31st/26

I decided to use this header pic again today as a reminder that it was 51 years ago that we set up that first ever Canadian World Round Trial near Bragg Creek Alberta. -It’s funny but it really doesn’t seem that long ago!! – Sadly we have no photographs from that event – although John… Continue reading Sunday August 30th/26

===================================== So here we are the last weekend of August – cooler weather forecast and hopefully more controls put on the wild fires. Like everybody in the area, we have not had a chance to get out on the bike for about a month now, so I did take the chance yesterday to do a… Continue reading Saturday September 28th/26