{"id":5814,"date":"2024-11-14T07:51:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=5814"},"modified":"2024-11-14T07:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:52:59","slug":"thursday-november-14th-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2024\/11\/14\/thursday-november-14th-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday November 14th\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the last quiz – Mick has a number plate saying World Champion – but the FIM World Championship did not start until 1975 ( I put on the first one in Canada) – Before 75 it was called the European Championship. — Correct responses from Bob Clark, Harlow, Pete Varey and Brett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Who – when and on what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is my Bultaco story – I was first introduced to the Sherpa T back in 1970 by Terry Porter, and I later bought his bike – see below my first event on this. steep drop and found out just how poor the Spanish brakes were. ( I soon fitted a decompressor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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below Trial at Lethbridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trial in the Forestry South West of Calgary AB – snow and rain. ( Note that I’m not wearing gloves)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes back then we pulled the odd “Wheelie”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While I owned a number of 250 Sherpa T’s – However, the best Bultaco I had was the 1973 Sherpa 325 – only sold this, when I joined Yamaha Canada late that year. ( Wish I still had that bike)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below a very steep climb – doable in 3rd on the 325 Sherpa – ( lots of “5’s on this) – Note all these pics by John Whitby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomorrow we will continue with our Bultaco -story and how the name changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2012 we put on a Trial at Summerland over the November 11th remembrance day weekend. – We started with a two minute silence, and I played the “Last Post” on my Harmonica. – It was a very cold weekend with snow, and this got worse as you can see by the pic of Jay Colley’s camp the following morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember Bob & Brett had brought a couple of the Sherco 320 4T bikes which they had to park near the truck exhaust to warm up before they would start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember being out on the Saturday riding my Beta Alp – taking pictures – I positioned myself at this one section after a slippery rocky climb, only to be told by Brett ” no point in being there – nobody is going to make it that far” I remember flailing around the loop with Steve Day and Stan, both on TY 175’s – yes it was fun on the snow covered trails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note! I wonder if Jay still has that old Sherpa T?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – Mick has a number plate saying World Champion – but the FIM World Championship did not start until 1975 ( I put on the first one in Canada) – Before 75 it was called the European Championship. — Correct responses from Bob Clark, Harlow, Pete Varey and Brett. Quiz… Continue reading Thursday November 14th\/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\/5814"}],"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=5814"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5814\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}