{"id":4390,"date":"2024-08-15T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2024-08-15T07:56:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T14:56:21","slug":"thursday-august-15th-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2024\/08\/15\/thursday-august-15th-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday August 15th\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the last quiz – The rider -Yrjo Vesterinen- CMA guy Gerry Marshal – guy in white cap – Me – long before I became Outlaw Dave – The event was the very first Canadian FIM World Round back in 1975 at Bragg Creek Alberta. –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Guess who!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A memory from years ago – We went on a trip to a Mountain lake near Elko with Jimmy and a bunch of his friends – on route we came across this water hole on the trail – all the front guys watered out!! -Steve Richardsen and myself found a spot only a few feet downstream where we crossed without incident. – In the pic – you see the other guys trying to get their bikes going – nobody!! had a spark plug wrench!!!! -a couple of lessons learned for some that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While it’s nice to see more lady riders getting involved in Trials – lets remember that there have been a lot who were very good at all aspects of the sport in bygone days. – Here is one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We often talk about how old Trials sections featured more natural terrain – well here is one very steep climb in Alberta from the early 70’s – no problem for me as I’m on the 325 Bultaco Sherpa T – the best bike I had before joining Yamaha ( I should have kept it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have owned a lot of different bikes in our time – but one that we always thought was the best “Looker” was the BSA Goldstar – seen here in “Clubman’s” trim. – Very popular it could be bought either in Trials, Scrambles or road racing set up. – We never did buy one – got Norton’s instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just came across this old pic of UK rider Andy Huddleston trying out our TRS 125 in the backyard, while on a visit with his family – his youngster is watching!! Andy -who is now a Chief Police Inspector in the UK was a former member of the Hamilton Yamaha Team – we saw him competing at the UK World round in 1995. ( great rider)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s a pic you won’t see often – if ever – A Beta Trials bike on top of Silver Star Mountain Ski Resort. – A few years ago Andrew Christiansen approached us to consider hosting a Trial on the Mountain along with the big Enduro X and Cross Country Race they were promoting. – We took along some Trials bikes and rode up the Mountain Bike trails to the top, while I would check out various locations for sections etc – It was a great day, and a great concept – I visualized an event where spectators could ride up on the gondola to view sections in a fantastic setting. – However, after much consideration and soul searching, I had to cancel the idea – as there would have been just too much going on that day with all the Enduro bikes. ( Now they have shut down any motorcycle activity on the mountain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course the best Mountain we ever climbed on a Trials bike was Joss – following the old pack horse trail from 1920. – We did this eight times, the last time with Stan on my 75th birthday – but it has now been closed to Motorcycles and the Mountain bikers have been grooming it to make it easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Boothroyd just sent me this pic that I took of David Gronow at the start -in 2008 – showing that even back then, the writing was on the wall for Trials bikes. ( Hiking trail) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is his brother Paul at the lookout the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – The rider -Yrjo Vesterinen- CMA guy Gerry Marshal – guy in white cap – Me – long before I became Outlaw Dave – The event was the very first Canadian FIM World Round back in 1975 at Bragg Creek Alberta. – Quiz today – Guess who!! ================================ A memory… Continue reading Thursday August 15th\/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\/4390"}],"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=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}