{"id":10071,"date":"2025-09-05T02:23:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=10071"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:23:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:23:45","slug":"friday-september-5th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/09\/05\/friday-september-5th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday September 5th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well ! as many of our bloggers know – Today is my 88th birthday, but also the birthday of our good friend Steve Baker – seen here with me at the Edmonton Hall of Fame. ( Pic by Taff)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I count myself extremely fortunate, to have reached this milestone, as many of my friends have not. – But I will always cherish the memories of times spent with these great people, either at Trials, or Cross Country races. Plus when working for Yamaha , meeting some real legends in the sport. – I’m also very lucky to still be able to get out for a ride on one of my Trials bikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, I owe a great deal, to my wife Babs, who has always supported me in my crazy adventures, and I’m so glad we are both still in reasonable health. ( And still together after 63 years!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the years, I have posted lots of photographs of my Motorcycle career, most of which has taken me all over, (With Yamaha) and has enabled me to meet quite a lot of famous people, (all very humbling)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If anybody is interested in learning more about my life – there is quite a write up on the Trials Guru website – you just need to scroll down . www.trialsguru.com ( I was the first of his three VIP’s in Canada) – John has one of our Outlaw Toolbelts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018The Outlaw Dave H. Rhodes, A Welshman in Canada\u2019 is the copyright of Trials Guru and David H. Rhodes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click onto October 2024 and scroll down (Trials Guru site)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the people who posted well wishes – the ones from OZ came in early . Plus a huge thanks to everybody who has helped me along the way. – And I now have some new teeth to fill those gaps!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now the question is – Will I ride my bike today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – James Dabill (Beta) in the Scott Trial – Brett, Bob and Peter Varey all got it as did Taff, and Steve ORorke – Later Peter from OZ and Jay Colley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Who can name the number 4 and # 29 – Hint – This was the 1957 TT in the Isle of Man ( and yes I was there)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A CPTA Trial at Ioco this Sunday !! But the Fire on the Coq might be a problem for some!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well ! as many of our bloggers know – Today is my 88th birthday, but also the birthday of our good friend Steve Baker – seen here with me at the Edmonton Hall of Fame. ( Pic by Taff) I count myself extremely fortunate, to have reached this milestone, as many of my friends have… Continue reading Friday September 5th\/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\/10071"}],"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=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10137,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions\/10137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}