{"id":11404,"date":"2025-11-27T04:13:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2025-11-27T04:29:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:29:30","slug":"thursday-november-27th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/11\/27\/thursday-november-27th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday November 27th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Good morning bloggers !!! The question I think for today is “Has winter now arrived?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway – answer to the last quiz – it was a pic of John Jones at the 1971 Western Canadian National trial, riding a converted Kawasaki Enduro 175- sponsored by Kaw Importer Manley’s of Ontario. – John was lucky to finish as the Kaw kept seizing up -Harlow, and Pete Varey both got it, while Brett knew the first name John??.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was another Alberta Trial to remember, – as it snowed big time on Saturday night and I had to lead the riders around the 30km pls loop because arrows and tape were down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would have been easier to have cancelled the event, but with riders from Ontario and the States etc – the show really had to go on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recall that I was just getting over a broken leg and knee surgery and now riding a Blackfoot Motorcycle sponsored, Montesa, so a lot that could go wrong actually did ( see pic below) – That’s Danny Smith from the USA pushing the dead Monty. – We pushed it through the last few Creek sections for “5” s , so we could get a Team finish. (and 3rd place)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a pic of Team Blackfoot Montesa – Murray Nutt, Wayne Adderson, and Dave Rhodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quiz today – Who is this guy????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now here is a great shot of the one and only Stan Bakgaard doing one of his famous flick turns at a demo in Kelowna around 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual, Stan will be heading to Mexico pretty quick for the winter, but I’m sure he will send us some pics and keep checking the blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

( Was it really 43 years ago that I got Stan that ride on the Yamaha??)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jordi just signed up another rider Teo Colairo ( no I’ve never heard of him either!!!) but seems he is a champ someplace!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday turned out quite well in the weather department, and we were able to do the up Valley trip to deliver Opti Snowmobile oil – we did see some of the white stuff on the hills North of Enderby, and the forecast is for some more in our area today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As everybody who has ever attended any of the Shuswap events knows – the Saturday night Ross roast – is one not to be missed – but check out this one at the Costa Brava!!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are now more really good pics of the Costa Brava Trial on FB – I snagged this one of winner Tom Sagar, who we did a bit of a story on a couple of days ago. (Thanks to the photographer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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