{"id":18267,"date":"2026-10-29T01:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=18267"},"modified":"2026-10-29T01:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T08:01:58","slug":"thursday-october-29th-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2026\/10\/29\/thursday-october-29th-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday October 29th\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mornin’ bloggers – and a pic of me riding one of our many Beta 200 bikes at Bear Creek. – We have likely sold more of these than any other model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – Our regular blogger Brett Clark on his Bultaco “Bitsa” – bits of Sherpa T- Bits of Pursang- Bits of Alpina!!! I took this pic at one of our Outlaw Vintage events at Summerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – A couple of well known UK Trials legends, but who are they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday we clicked onto Itchy Boots and her latest video arriving in Japan on the Yamaha – We find all these videos fantastic to watch, and this last one may be a bit special – we wonder if she will get to visit the Yamaha Factory ? If she does, they should give her the Royal treatment for her 2 yr trek around the World on that specially built Tenere 600..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It reminded me of my last visit to the Factory in 1982 -Here is a pic showing the Canadian Dealers on that trip, I got to take Babs that year, she is on the 2nd row extreme left side (Blonde) – I’m on the other right side ( in Yamaha suit) I wonder how many of those people are still around? ( I see Keith Simmons in the 2nd row center- Keith was the parts manager at Yamaha in Vancouver and managed to “Find” us some Yamaha shirts for our 83 ISDE Team .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is another Yamaha memory from one of our newsletters which we used to mail out, before the age of computers. – ( from 2005) – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although we are heading into winter, we always did a lot of snow riding in our younger years – although some of our snow riding was done at high elevation in August!! ( Joss Mountain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This pic shows me out for the first time on the brand new 1999 Bultaco – in January at East Kelowna. However, we always found the Beta to work the best in the snow – lots of torque and able to pull a high gear. – I remember the time Stan came with us up Joss and we ran into heavy snow – he asked me what gear I was pulling – I told him 4th – but I also knew that the Sherco ( that he was on) was the worst ever bike I rode for getting traction in snow. –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you imagine the fun we had riding that first ever West Canadian Championship Trial back in 1971 when we had 2ft of snow overnight and shit tires????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was in snow that I rode my first ever Trial in Canada – can’t remember too much about the event at Blackfoot Park in 1971, but I’m guessing traction on that Greeves was a bit sketchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The one thing that snow riding does for the rider, is it teaches throttle control – the rider who has this at a poor weather event will always get a good result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mornin’ bloggers – and a pic of me riding one of our many Beta 200 bikes at Bear Creek. – We have likely sold more of these than any other model. ========================================= Answer to the last quiz – Our regular blogger Brett Clark on his Bultaco “Bitsa” – bits of Sherpa T- Bits of Pursang-… Continue reading Thursday October 29th\/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\/18267"}],"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=18267"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18302,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18267\/revisions\/18302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}