{"id":12742,"date":"2026-02-05T08:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=12742"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:28:28","slug":"thursday-february-5th-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/02\/05\/thursday-february-5th-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday February 5th\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The old saying goes “February brings the rain-thaws the frozen lakes again” – Well I see we still have ice on Swan lake, but we have not seen any people ice fishing and certainly not out there with vehicles -at all this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember in the early 70’s going to oval snowmobile races in Revelstoke and seeing the town deep in snow with people making tunnels to get to their front doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday I visited my top selling dealer for Opti snowmobile oil near Sicamous, and it certainly has not been good for any of these dealers this year. – Lack of snow, plus the uncertainty in the World is making the buying public wary of spending. ( and none of these sleds are cheap) – However in spite of all this – the high priced ATV\/Side by side market seems to be strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – It was Les Graham on the MV Augusta in the 1953 TT – shortly after this pic was taken Les crashed at the bottom of Bray hill, when the Earles type forks locked up -and poor Les was killed. –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pete Varey got it as did Harlow – Bob Clark guessed Massetti – which was a good guess, – another toughie .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Guess who.? – one of them won the SSDT !! but not on that bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Pinhard Price in the UK is presented to the best under sixteen rider in Motorcycle sport and this year young George Hemingway won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stan sent us this pic of Kiwi Trent Burgess on his Beta Evo complete with long ride kit and chainsaw – they were out on a 6 hour ride somewhere – We took Trent out a few years ago when he first got a Trials bike – we had to slow him down that day as he was hitting stuff at high speed – likely because he was also competing in the Baja 1000 races as well at that time. – Hopefully get more pics soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birthday greetings today to Kolten Morrison who turns 23 !! it seems a long time ago that we loaned him a Beta Evo 200 to begin his Trials career. Happy birthday young fella!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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