{"id":10020,"date":"2025-08-29T04:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=10020"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:33:29","slug":"friday-august-29th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/29\/friday-august-29th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday August 29th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the last quiz – 100year old John Penton – the guy who brought KTM dirt bikes to the States and called them Pentons.- quite a few got that one – it was Helmut Klassen and his buddy Max – who later brought KTM to Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today. Who is this rider?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was in 1975, that the FIM decided to make the European Trials Championship into a “World” Championship – here are the results from that first year in the UK – Just like the one we put on in Alberta, later that year, there were a ton of club riders who went head to head with the top experts of the day. – That is not the case today – just the cost of competing in the series is mind boggling and the circus type acrobatics required to even ride some of the sections, is certainly questionable. – Check out the scores!! Remember back then everybody rode the same line in the sections. ( Still that way at the Scottish Six Day Trial)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1975 was also the year that crash helmets became mandatory for Trials<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We got to browsing the You tube channel last night – watched more from the ISDE before they go into the final day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that I stumbled across some video clips from the AMA Hall of Fame, with Malcolm Smith telling stories – what a great guy he was – did you know he was born on Saltspring Island BC?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – 100year old John Penton – the guy who brought KTM dirt bikes to the States and called them Pentons.- quite a few got that one – it was Helmut Klassen and his buddy Max – who later brought KTM to Canada. Quiz today. Who is this rider? ====================================== It… Continue reading Friday August 29th\/25<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10020"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10031,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10020\/revisions\/10031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}