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Our header pic today – shows Jon English at the Scottish on Monday – he lost 42 points ( marks) Tyler Mumford had lost 53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the leading scores – Only Adam Raga going clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam Raga 0 – Jack Price 1- Michael Brown – 1 George Hemingway -1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE – DAY 2 – We were up early at 4am our time and watched live video of Witch’s Burn – the fearsome steep waterfall section, that we have spectated at. – very slippery today, but no issues for the top riders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that most top riders let air out of the tires to ride the sections – then pump back up for the long fast road parts? – Flat tires can be a big issue if a rider is tight on time. – Back in the day it was common to see riders with a bicycle type pump strapped to their leg with rubber bands cut from a car inner tube – we have seen a few of Mick Andrews like this. – Of course these days there are small compact tire kits to do the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jon English still going well at this stage – Tuesday is usually a “Toughie” – especially for the early numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We didn’t post a quiz question on Monday – but as it’s Scottish week – we will show some pics from the SSDT for our bloggers to guess<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Who is this sticking his tongue out??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the Official Webmaster for the SSDT – she seems well prepared and also has a big box of energy “sweets” for the riders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We thought the Day one video posted by BVM was the best, as it showed some of the ‘In between” parts of the course – across the Moors etc – However only a few of the same riders as Craig was posting and also riding. – Quite a few others showed a lot of the riders and sections, so certainly very easy for us to follow the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Irish Hanlon team have also got a good video up – this one shows more of the pre trial stuff – the weigh in etc – did you know that the bikes all go through a pre Trial check with certain parts all marked and these cannot be changed during the week. – even the lights still need to be working at the end, or penalty points are added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neil Sturgeon always posts some great pics – here is one of Ben Hemmingway on one of the new Beta Sincro models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coming soon – VERY soon – Note!! There will be a Vintage class also on Saturday to mark the 40th Anniversary . ( The first event was held at East Kelowna in 1986 with Vintage on Saturday and modern on Sunday)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our header pic today – shows Jon English at the Scottish on Monday – he lost 42 points ( marks) Tyler Mumford had lost 53. Here are the leading scores – Only Adam Raga going clean. Adam Raga 0 – Jack Price 1- Michael Brown – 1 George Hemingway -1 UPDATE – DAY 2 –… Continue reading Tuesday May 5th\/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\/14414"}],"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=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14434,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions\/14434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}