{"id":11855,"date":"2025-12-22T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=11855"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:02:14","slug":"monday-december-22nd-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/12\/22\/monday-december-22nd-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday December 22nd\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well! Here we are in the final countdown to Christmas 2025 – the past year has been filled with some great times with our motorcycle friends, but also some personal sadness, as I lost my other brother and also my sister in law just a month later. I now have one elder sister left in the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birthday greetings today to our TRS Importer Bob Clark who has now made the trip around the sun 68 times – Have a great day Bob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – It was Freddy Spencer on a Bultaco – although we tend to think of Bultaco as just a Trials bike Factory they were actually huge in both MX and Road racing – it was only the Spanish Government Labor laws that had them close the doors when the motorcycle market went into a free fall, and they were not allowed to lay people off – a sad situation. – Pete Varey, Brett and Harlow all got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Guess who at a snowy Trial? on a TY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The weather in the OK Valley remains very mild with no snow in our yard – very unusual, but also good for all the crazy shoppers out in the Christmas shopping craze ( Yes I had to battle these yesterday when Momma bear needed some eggs to complete her cooking.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Over in Alberta, I see the lads have had their first indoor practice at Red Deer – nice they have a friendly farmer with a big barn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CPTA will host their annual Boxing Day Trial on Friday – hopefully the big rain storms will have eased by then and the roads all passable.. I remember quite few fun times we had back in Kelowna putting on these, usually in the snow. after which we would stop off at a local watering hole to celebrate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A nice one from the Hall of fame – does anybody know who used number 17 on their race bike?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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