{"id":15884,"date":"2026-07-15T08:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=15884"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:03:52","slug":"wednesday-july-15th-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/07\/15\/wednesday-july-15th-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday July 15th\/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-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15886\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well ! we did not get any correct answers to our last quiz !! &#8211; It was Bill Brown owner of Wulf Sport UK &#8211; He was once reported to have taken a leak in the radiator of his Rolls Royce when it overheated on the M1 motorway in the UK &#8211;  obviously a solution only a bike guy would think of. &#8211; we have never met Bill, although we have been buying his stuff since 1995. &#8211; really great service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today. Who ?  When? and Where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Berlatier-on-falls.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Berlatier-on-falls.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Berlatier-on-falls-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looks like quite smoky in the Valley today &#8211; not sure where that is coming from &#8211; Summers these days are certainly more worrying with the threat of Forest Fires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We got an email from John Kitchener in the UK &#8211; who said (after reading my Yamaha Trials story) that  Don  Smith gave that same optimistic forecast to Kawasaki- here is the foreword from His Book- <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith died young from cancer and was famous for always having a cigarette in his mouth while riding sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"422\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Don-Smith-book-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Don-Smith-book-rotated.jpg 422w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Don-Smith-book-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=======================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>====================================== Well ! we did not get any correct answers to our last quiz !! &#8211; It was Bill Brown owner of Wulf Sport UK &#8211; He was once reported to have taken a leak in the radiator of his Rolls Royce when it overheated on the M1 motorway in the UK &#8211; obviously a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/07\/15\/wednesday-july-15th-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday July 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\/15884"}],"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=15884"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15893,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15884\/revisions\/15893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}