{"id":1189,"date":"2023-12-31T08:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2023-12-31T08:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T15:39:06","slug":"sunday-december-31-23-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2023\/12\/31\/sunday-december-31-23-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday December 31\/23 NEW YEARS EVE."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So here we are on the last day of 2023, and a time to look back at some of the happenings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously the first thing we recall, is the Forest Fires – absolutely mind blowing , with people evacuated and many losing their dream homes, both here in the Okanagan Valley, the Shuswap and up North. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course this affected everybody in business – and put a hold on Motorcycle events all summer. – Looking ahead to 2024, we can only hope that the mountains get lots of snow in January, otherwise we can expect another bleak year, with both fires and water shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did have some bright spots to report, Team Canada went to the TDN in Europe, with both men and women’s teams. a Huge effort was made by Michael Traves and others, to raise funds for this. We hope it did not go unnoticed. – Below is a pic of the Ladies Team – Christy Williams went along as well to act as a coach as did Steve Day. – A really big effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In spite of all the troubles – we enjoyed quite a few good days out riding – this was over on the Westside high up where they pushed through a Fire break. Roy took this shot – We also had one great day out with Emily and Mike at Revvy, plus Mike and myself did part of the Outlaw loop at Summerland – visiting the Pete’s memorial site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also on this day – we remember the people we have lost – friends and family – I listed these previously but now add one more as a close friend of our daughter, passed away over the Christmas holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Quiz pic from yesterday showed Tom Young from Portland trying to manhandle his heavy Rokon up a hill in the Terra Nova Time Trial on Vancouver Island in 1977 – Bob Clark got this – and Roger Boothroyd emailed with more info as he supplied us with the pic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So for the last quiz of 2023 – Who is this rider on what bike and which event??? (Pic supplied by John Moffatt)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So here we are on the last day of 2023, and a time to look back at some of the happenings. Obviously the first thing we recall, is the Forest Fires – absolutely mind blowing , with people evacuated and many losing their dream homes, both here in the Okanagan Valley, the Shuswap and up… Continue reading Sunday December 31\/23 NEW YEARS EVE.<\/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\/1189"}],"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=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}