{"id":5356,"date":"2024-10-15T05:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2024-10-15T05:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:52:05","slug":"tuesday-october-15th-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2024\/10\/15\/tuesday-october-15th-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday October 15th\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OK so we are now well and truly into the Fall season, with the Thanksgiving weekend done and some of the Classic Events like the Scott Trial in the history books – Also the BIG International Six Day Enduro goes this week in Spain – this is huge and we have to wonder where the money comes from to field all these teams – we know that back in 1983 when we were involved with the Canadian team going to Wales there was no real sponsorship – although I was able to get the big Yamaha Transporter from Mitsui in the UK. – I remember chatting to the lads from Oz who shared our checkpoint duties, who told me their Government picked up the tab for the Teams!! – I’m sure other Countries also got big dollars especially the USA – they had 45 support crew!!!!!! – Just as a reminder our Canadian Team finished 2nd that year in the Silver Vase ( now called the Junior Trophy) Plus the Team won the Watling Trophy for the most improved nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a pic of our Yamaha Team – But the lads from Eastern Canada were a big part of the success – Blair Sharpless and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L-R in pic – Walter Short -Paddy Horan Dave Rhodes – Bernie Graffunder – Lady friend of Paddy’s who came to support – Chris Castles (rip) and Tony Allen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below a group of riders at the opening ceremony – Walter Short – Gerry Neilson (rip) Tony Allen -Cam Whiffing, Pat Horan -Chris Castles (rip) – Blair Sharpless and Bernie Graffunder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was nice the team let me have a pic with the Watling Trophy ( A few had already left to catch flights back to Canada)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I even still have my official badge from that event – what a great effort by Team Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We wish the Teams good luck this week in Spain – Kudus to all who helped make this happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note! – Blair posted that two of the girls lost a bit of time on the first day and one of the men’s team got a penalty at a surprise sound check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday was a lazy day for us – I did give the TRS a clean up after the dusty ride on Saturday – then later just kicked back and watched some Scott Trial videos on You Tube. – I think the checkers deserve a medal at this event trying to score all the riders fairly when there might sometimes be 3-4 in the section at the same time. I’m sure some win and some lose !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A couple of other big events on last weekend- the Sea to Sky hard Enduro won my Manny Lettenbichler – but Graham Jarvis was back on the podium for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also locally in Vernon they held the Squeelin Pig cross Country – we have not seen any results for this so far. – but a great weekend for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – Andy Huddleston who is now a Chief Police Inspector in England – He paid us a visit a couple of years back .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Guess who??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OK so we are now well and truly into the Fall season, with the Thanksgiving weekend done and some of the Classic Events like the Scott Trial in the history books – Also the BIG International Six Day Enduro goes this week in Spain – this is huge and we have to wonder where the… Continue reading Tuesday October 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\/5356"}],"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=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}