{"id":11304,"date":"2025-11-21T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=11304"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:32:31","slug":"friday-november-21st-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/11\/21\/friday-november-21st-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday November 21st\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11306\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Good morning Outlaw bloggers!! &#8211; Another early day searching the web for the latest news. &#8211; in the Trials world, that means the Costa Brava 2 day Classic in Spain, so we will keep an eye open for results from that . &#8211; one of the favorites has to be Dan Clark on the Beta &#8211; but we will be watching out for our Harry McKay on his pretty special Fantic as well &#8211; I&#8217;m sure the Scottish invasion has already arrived!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Costa-Brava-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Costa-Brava-2025.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Costa-Brava-2025-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer to the Thursday quiz. &#8211; World MX Champ and a really good trials rider, Jeff Smith at the Scottish Six Day Trial, which he won back in his days riding for BSA.  &#8211; Harlow was first in with the correct answer &#8211; Brett, bob, Pete and Peter from Oz were all onto this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today. Guess who?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Codina-on-a-Mont.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Codina-on-a-Mont.jpg 512w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Codina-on-a-Mont-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>looking ahead &#8211; the VMC still get to host Trials in December, when most places in the Interior are shut down because of snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VMC-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VMC-poster.jpg 526w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VMC-poster-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However we do sometimes get surprised in the Okanagan. &#8211; I found this shot of me back in 2004 at Bear Creek. &#8211; Obviously we had something planned for Boxing Day that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/269-1024x975.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/269-1024x975.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/269-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/269-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/269-1536x1462.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/269-2048x1950.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/269-1568x1493.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw this &#8220;Blast from the Past&#8221; &#8211; showing the McCrae brothers when they had Forest Lawn Cycle in Calgary &#8211; Later we set them up with Yamaha &#8211; which made Walt really mad.   ( Things were a bit hot for a while, but the Japanese wanted a 3rd Yamaha dealer in Calgary)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Later Doug went into Blackfoot Motorcycle and Darrel had a Honda dealership in Edmonton for a while. &#8211; I seem to recall that Marvin on the left went off to sail the South seas someplace. &#8211; Doug actually phoned me a couple of months back for a chat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-McCraes-a-Forest-Lawn-Cycle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-McCraes-a-Forest-Lawn-Cycle.jpg 720w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-McCraes-a-Forest-Lawn-Cycle-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a flashback to the TDN in Italy, showing our Team Outlaw gals, posing by the Beta tent. &#8211; I forgot to mention yesterday, that Emily was the only lady to finish that grueling Baja event a few weeks ago, in spite of the crash and other issues &#8211; that took a LOT.!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/EmKatie-in-Italy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/EmKatie-in-Italy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/EmKatie-in-Italy-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning Outlaw bloggers!! &#8211; Another early day searching the web for the latest news. &#8211; in the Trials world, that means the Costa Brava 2 day Classic in Spain, so we will keep an eye open for results from that . &#8211; one of the favorites has to be Dan Clark on the Beta&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/11\/21\/friday-november-21st-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday November 21st\/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\/11304"}],"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=11304"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11321,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions\/11321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}