{"id":15917,"date":"2026-07-17T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T19:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=15917"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:07:46","slug":"friday-july-17th-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/07\/17\/friday-july-17th-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday July 17th\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"916\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-11.png 916w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-11-268x300.png 268w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-11-768x859.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mornin&#8217; bloggers !!! Another glorious day in the valley, but very hot temperatures, so no riding for the old guy &#8211; and of course a reminder that if you do go out into the woods, please be careful, as the fire hazard is extreme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer to the last quiz was David Fabian  a good young rider from Europe and I was surprised that Bob. Brett, Roger all got that one<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today -Guess who? and what is that bike?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Arthur-Lampkin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Arthur-Lampkin.jpg 515w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Arthur-Lampkin-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>not a lot of news to report today &#8211; but good to see Sammy Miller going strong at age 92 &#8211; seen here with Kevin Schwanz and Kenny Roberts junior at the recent Goodwood Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sammy-with-Kenny-roberts-Jr-and-Kevin-852x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sammy-with-Kenny-roberts-Jr-and-Kevin-852x1024.jpg 852w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sammy-with-Kenny-roberts-Jr-and-Kevin-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sammy-with-Kenny-roberts-Jr-and-Kevin-768x924.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sammy-with-Kenny-roberts-Jr-and-Kevin-1277x1536.jpg 1277w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sammy-with-Kenny-roberts-Jr-and-Kevin-1568x1886.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/sammy-with-Kenny-roberts-Jr-and-Kevin.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We sometimes hear people talk about how great modern motorcycles are &#8211; but how about this classic piece of engineering from 1939 &#8211; The AJS V 4 Porcupine ridden by Les Graham to much success before World War Two put a hold on everything .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1939-AJS-V4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1939-AJS-V4.jpg 843w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1939-AJS-V4-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1939-AJS-V4-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We just got another shipment of Wulf boots in &#8211; ordered last Sunday night &#8211; arrived Thursday am &#8211; you can&#8217;t beat that service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Finally &#8211; this sort of tells the story of today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Getting-old-etc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15930\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope to get pics and results of the VMC Boomer Trial for tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mornin&#8217; bloggers !!! Another glorious day in the valley, but very hot temperatures, so no riding for the old guy &#8211; and of course a reminder that if you do go out into the woods, please be careful, as the fire hazard is extreme. ============================================ Answer to the last quiz was David Fabian a good&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/07\/17\/friday-july-17th-26\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday July 17th\/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\/15917"}],"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=15917"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15932,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15917\/revisions\/15932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}