{"id":10045,"date":"2025-08-31T10:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:31:35","slug":"sunday-august-31-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/31\/sunday-august-31-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday August 31\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; an easy one for most of our bloggers &#8211; Jordi Tarres on the new liquid cooled zero in 1990. &#8212; we saw him on the prototype in Scotland in 1989 when the rad got plugged with good old Scottish mud on the moors and the  bike seized &#8211; it was one of those really wet years  &#8211; I have a photo someplace of Jordi and the Beta crew working on the bike back at the Park Ferme &#8211; but alas it&#8217;s lost someplace in my archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today &#8211; Who can name these World Championship Road Racers? one of whom also rode Trials, including the Scottish. ( I was in a Time Trial he won, back in the day)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Duke-Read-Taveri.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Duke-Read-Taveri.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Duke-Read-Taveri-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the ISDE now over for another year, I hope all the riders get the fame but of course not the fortune, that other athletes get in a World  of Sports &#8211; but not in the Olympics of Motorcycling. This is true -If any of those Canadian riders ever click onto our blog &#8211; I take my hat off to you, I was there in 1983 and I know the commitment it takes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a similar aspect &#8211; we hold the Scottish Six day trial in the same class- Any Canadian rider, who spends their own hard earned cash, to compete in an event that they will be lucky to finish &#8211; deserves a tip of the hat. &#8211; Over the years, we have chatted to lots of Canadian riders, who mention they might give the Scottish a &#8216;Go&#8217; &#8211; but few have either the skill or perseverance to last even one day (100 miles)- but Kudus to those that try!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bit  late getting to the blog today and also a tad short on news- more tomorrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>========================================= <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; an easy one for most of our bloggers &#8211; Jordi Tarres on the new liquid cooled zero in 1990. &#8212; we saw him on the prototype in Scotland in 1989 when the rad got plugged with good old Scottish mud on the moors and the bike seized &#8211; it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/31\/sunday-august-31-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday August 31\/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\/10045"}],"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=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10053,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}