{"id":11959,"date":"2025-12-29T03:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T10:57:04","slug":"monday-december-29th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/12\/29\/monday-december-29th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday December 29th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happy Holidays to all our bloggers, we hope you are all enjoying this wonderful time with family and friends. – Our weather has turned colder, and we now have snow, so I’m not likely to be doing any riding now for some time. – But looking back it has been a great year, with a new event at Naramata, followed by a return to Summerland for the Outlaw Trial, then finally our Fall extravaganza up in the Shuswap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– Our local riders have enjoyed some success, with both Katie and Emily going to the TDN in Italy, and Katie wrapped up her year with a nice win in Victoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – Bonky Bowers !! and yes Harlow got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Guess who? and where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday we had a couple of nice guys stop by for a visit – one from Ontario, and the other from New Brunswick – we had a nice chat, as I explained how things were in our area, regarding the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I saw this poster and it reminded me that an old friend of mine who surprised a lot of the factory riders one year – Brian Morris rode a 197cc James with worn out front fork springs, so he adapted by using rubber bands cut from an old truck inner tube, which worked on the rebound – I can’t recall the result, but I know Brian did very well., beating some well known riders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is a photo of Brian and myself in 1983 when we met up for a pint, after the ISDE in Wales – Sadly Brian passed away during the Covid outbreak. – His son Peter now runs the Oswestry Club events. We keep in contact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How about this new\/old Bultaco Sherpa T ? – what a great looking bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another memory of a couple of great Friends no longer with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top Pete Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Murray Nutt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pics by Harlow Rankin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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pic by Dave Rhodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And of course we will always remember Pete !!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Holidays to all our bloggers, we hope you are all enjoying this wonderful time with family and friends. – Our weather has turned colder, and we now have snow, so I’m not likely to be doing any riding now for some time. – But looking back it has been a great year, with a… Continue reading Monday December 29th\/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\/11959"}],"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=11959"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}