{"id":14663,"date":"2026-05-15T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=14663"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:03:47","slug":"friday-may-15th-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/05\/15\/friday-may-15th-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday May 15th\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This pic was taken by Mike Phillips a couple of years back, up on Vernon Mountain – It shows just what a beautiful valley we live in and a rare pic showing both Kalamalka and Okanagan lakes. -I was out on one of the fantastic TRS estart Xtrack models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz was – Photographer Neil Sturgeon, who always posts some really good shots of Trials in the UK. – Bob Clark and Roger Boothroyd got this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today. Another of Neil’s Scottish pics – but who is the Beta rider?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday we started loading the van for the trip to the Shuswap – the weather looks a tad unsettled, but as always this will be a fantastic weekend and very special this year, being the 40th anniversary of the Outlaw Trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also on this weekend, is the WTC event in Japan, usually a very muddy affair, but the huge costs involved will keep a lot of teams at home this year, including Vertigo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I watched an interesting video on You Tube, regarding Motorcycle sales or the lack of such, and the forecasted demise of 13 factories. – Although many of these names come as no surprise, the names of Suzuki and Honda might be a shocker – the reasons given for Honda is that they have been subsidizing the Motorcycle division for a long time – -KTM also listed, but also Ducati, Moto Guzzi, and Triumph.. – Of course the Trump Tariffs have created a big problem in the market place, for many of these factories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a neat pic of Sammy Miller sitting on a Vincent grey shadow – the first motorcycle to feature a Cantilever style suspension – the Vincent used two small shocks seen here under the seat,-( the design later perfected by Tilkins in the Netherlands and sold to Yamaha used one long shock) – It was on one of these bikes that John Surtees made his solo debut into Motorcycle road racing, after he had acted as a “Passenger” on his Dad’s road race Vincent sidecar outfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The annual Fun event put on by the Vernon Club goes this weekend for the Enduro Crowd – Obviously we will not be there as it’s the Outlaw Trial – but we do help with sponsorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some early info from Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We watched some clips of the enduro style high speed qualifying section – while it looks exciting for spectators – my opinion is this is out of place in Trials competition, and could very well result in a season ending injury for a rider. ( Japan is a long way to go, and very expensive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This pic was taken by Mike Phillips a couple of years back, up on Vernon Mountain – It shows just what a beautiful valley we live in and a rare pic showing both Kalamalka and Okanagan lakes. -I was out on one of the fantastic TRS estart Xtrack models. =========================================== Answer to the last quiz… Continue reading Friday May 15th\/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\/14663"}],"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=14663"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14685,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions\/14685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}