{"id":3484,"date":"2024-06-04T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2024-06-04T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T14:04:07","slug":"tuesday-june-4th-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2024\/06\/04\/tuesday-june-4th-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday June 4th\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So we got a message from Pat Morrow in Japan &#8211; informing us that our last two blog posts were titled MAY &#8211; !!!!! now corrected but we sure appreciate our readers checking on the old guy,!!(Doh)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just saw a post on the late and really great Al Perrett &#8211; a good friend for many years and sadly no longer with us. &#8211; This pic was taken in 2018 at the Canadian Motorcycle Hall of Fame &#8211; I felt a bit out of place with all these famous Motorcycle people. &#8211; left to right Al Perrett, Steve Crevier, (me) Stevie Baker and Bob Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CMHOFF1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CMHOFF1.jpg 643w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CMHOFF1-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking back at my time in the Motorcycle Industry &#8211; I have to say that it&#8217;s been like winning the lottery &#8211; I have met so many wonderful people and shared so many experiences &#8211; yes like my wife Babs says &#8211; I should write a book.!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course we have all had our sad moments and below is a pic of myself placing a plaque on the section in Summerland that Peter Brown and myself built a number of years ago. &#8211; We only used this a couple of times, and it is now very overgrown with downed trees &#8211; but this stump is still there &#8211; and Pete cut that down. &#8211;  I should mention that Pete quite often did not quite understand some of my vision of a true &#8220;British Style&#8221; Trials section &#8211; but he never ,ever questioned or complained &#8211; I miss him dearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pic below shows me fixing the memorial plaque to the stump that Pete cut  when we built the section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1062.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1062.jpg 499w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_1062-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not much other  news  &#8211; we expect a shipment of Wulf Boots to arrive today and have other stuff  expected for customers &#8211; we sure had some heavy rain yesterday in the Valley &#8211; all good of course as we experience drought conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I see they had a big Cross Country race in Kamloops last weekend &#8211; Glen Labby took the win in his class &#8211; we sold him a Beta Evo back a few years. &#8211; Local Vernon rider Andrew Christianson finished second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=======================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we got a message from Pat Morrow in Japan &#8211; informing us that our last two blog posts were titled MAY &#8211; !!!!! now corrected but we sure appreciate our readers checking on the old guy,!!(Doh) ========================================= I just saw a post on the late and really great Al Perrett &#8211; a good friend&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2024\/06\/04\/tuesday-june-4th-24\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday June 4th\/24<\/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\/3484"}],"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=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}