{"id":15083,"date":"2026-06-03T03:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=15083"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:37:57","slug":"wednesday-june-3rd-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/06\/03\/wednesday-june-3rd-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday June 3rd\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As I mentioned yesterday, perhaps the best part after a day out riding, is kicking back either on the porch or around the camp fire and sharing stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Obviously because of our age, we have a ton of these to share, mostly good, funny, but sometimes of a serious nature. So today we look back at our early Yamaha days, and the very first TY Trials model. – Of course it was our late friend Harlow, who disclosed how my first ride on the Pre-Production TY 250, at the Yamaha Canada plant in Richmond, resulted in me flipping it over backwards, luckily behind the main building and out of sight of the race dept. – In fact Harlow posted this for everybody to see and hear at the Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame – – and now he’s gone I can show you this because I told him at the time “Don’t Go telling everybody about that” – I should also mention, that while the story you are about to read below, is all true. Please remember that I’m just a very, very, small spoke in a very large wheel. ( certainly nothing special)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the print out from that Program. – For those interested in a bit of Outlaw History. ( words by Harlow Rankin and Edited by the Hall of Fame)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fortunately, my early experiences with my new Yamaha TY 250 demo that followed, were a lot more positive, with a win first time out in Alberta and more later – However things did not end well for this model, as we had a very big high speed crash at the first ever Elkford BC Cross Country race, which I was leading at the time. – This resulted in a concussion and cracked ribs etc – but was worse for the bike as this was just about totaled ( my phone call to the Parts manager for what we needed was priceless) – That was also the last time I ever raced a Trials bike in a Cross Country Race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up we had the new TY 175, ( No pics) – which we used a lot – in fact this was the bike we used to set up that very first Canadian World Championship Trial in Alberta 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below on the TY Mono seen at Bear creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In later years, after a few spent racing Cross Country on the Yamaha IT series – we had one of the new TY mono 350cc – ( not as good as the 250) – and after that the god awful TYZ, which was the end for us with new Yams. – BUT we did pick up a much modified TY 175 for the new Vintage class, and we did OK on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that it was “Wham -Bam- Thankyou-Yam!!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So the bottom line is this – I was already 32 years old when I rode my first Trial in Canada, so already a bit “Over the hill” – and had not been on a Competition bike for 12 years. In the UK I was just a reasonable Club rider !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And NOW you know “The rest of the story”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – Yes Jordi on the Beta – an easy one for most of our bloggers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – guess who on what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A great shot of Jon English on a “Proper” Trials section in Scotland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And finally Birthday Greetings to Bobby Todosychuk who has now been around the sun 71 times – Have a great day Bob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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