{"id":15640,"date":"2026-07-02T03:52:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=15640"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:11:13","slug":"thursday-july-2nd-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/07\/02\/thursday-july-2nd-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday July 2nd\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15642\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mornin&#8217; bloggers !! &#8211; hope you all had a good &#8220;Canada Day&#8221; &#8211; weather was a bit unsettled in the Valley but that&#8217;s OK. &#8211; We just spent a quiet day &#8211; clicked onto the latest &#8220;Itchy Boots&#8221;  video &#8211; we enjoy watching Noraly&#8217;s travels, as we&#8217;ve said before these are a great geography lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; Hugh Viney &#8211; quite a famous Trials rider from back in the day. &#8211; Brett was quick in with the correct answer, plus Peter from OZ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today &#8211; Guess who,? on what? and where? Section?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4498.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4498.jpg 525w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4498-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While looking back at some old stuff &#8211; I came across this Newsletter, which we used to post every month many years before our daily blog hit the screen. &#8211; Some interesting info. &#8211; Of course before we got to this level, we used to type out the News on an old typewriter, then paste it all together with pics, before photo-copying and mailing out (all free of charge) &#8211; Other people like Harlow and Roger Boothroyd did similar reports for their local clubs &#8211; yes that was a lot of work &#8211; much easier now!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-1.jpg 499w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-1-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"435\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-2.jpg 435w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-2-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"427\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-3.jpg 427w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsletter-3-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>==================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While on the topic of old stuff &#8211; did you know that they had a Sidecar class in the early years of the Scottish Six Days ??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4496.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4496.jpg 516w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4496-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birthday Greetings to Sparky Bill who turns 70 today &#8211; Have a great day buddy!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>=========================================== Mornin&#8217; bloggers !! &#8211; hope you all had a good &#8220;Canada Day&#8221; &#8211; weather was a bit unsettled in the Valley but that&#8217;s OK. &#8211; We just spent a quiet day &#8211; clicked onto the latest &#8220;Itchy Boots&#8221; video &#8211; we enjoy watching Noraly&#8217;s travels, as we&#8217;ve said before these are a great geography&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/07\/02\/thursday-july-2nd-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday July 2nd\/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\/15640"}],"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=15640"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15654,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions\/15654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}