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Answer to the last quiz -Nigel Birkett (JCM) at the 1989 Scottish – not sure what section this was but may have been the lower one at Grey Mares Ridge. – I chatted to Nigel before he lined up for this section- asked him about the JCM – He said it was a good bike!! So that was a reason I talked to the factory people at the car park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This design was quite stylish with the gas tank below the seat, but without a fuel pump, we found this a problem when the level got low. The Gas Gas engine also felt a bit underpowered. – However Stan did win the first CPTA Trial at Ioco on the bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is one of the pics I took of Stan the first time he tried the bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both Bob and Brett got the rider in the quiz – but not the correct year. – or section.- Pete Varey got it all correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today. – Who is this rider competing in a snowy National?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is another old pic from an ATRA Trial at Rocky Mountain House – it shows Rob Stobart struggling to heave the twin shock Monty up onto the tires watched by Chris Tronnes. – Rob loves the old Monts and still has one which he plans to bring to the Outlaw in BC this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As mentioned – We have been sorting out some of our old files which contain a ton of photographs – long before digital took over. Below are a few from our very first trip up Joss Mountain in 2003 — very difficult – as we had to get around avalanches and the bush was so thick. – I had forgotten that we had a young lady along that trip on a very low geared down Kawasaki 100. – As you can see in the bottom pic – she looked pretty worn out, but everybody made it to the lookout in spite of snow drifts and skirting big pools of water.- we had to get through in the Alpine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below – Luke Towers, Paul Throssell – Mark Grey – but can’t remember the other two – who were friends of Mark ( Our guide) – This was about 1\/2 way up in the Alpine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some winter weather in the OK Valley today – cold and light snow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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======================================= Answer to the last quiz -Nigel Birkett (JCM) at the 1989 Scottish – not sure what section this was but may have been the lower one at Grey Mares Ridge. – I chatted to Nigel before he lined up for this section- asked him about the JCM – He said it was a good… Continue reading Thursday February 19th\/26<\/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\/13026"}],"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=13026"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13045,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13026\/revisions\/13045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}