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The Social media is full of the KTM story, lots of reports on who is to blame etc – all of which will continue into the new year, we can only hope that the riders get paid before all the contracts get tossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From our perspective, we think we will see the ripple effect of this for at least a year or more, as the huge unsold inventory gets dumped. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Trials market, being very small, will survive, but there is an old saying that if people do not learn from their mistakes, they will repeat them. – ( KTM went into receivership once before)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We were lucky to escape any big dumps of snow over the weekend, and I’m sure some of the younger set got out for a ride. – The VMC still have one more trial scheduled for this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We have mentioned before how riders in the UK after World War Two , would ride all types of competition, before the era of specialization . We were fortunate to witness many changes including the “Dustbin fairing” days, before the enclosed front wheels were banned due to accidents caused by side winds. Check out this line up. I saw quite a few of those riders in the Isle of Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n As our bloggers know – we think it’s very important to get Trials event posters out early if you want a good entry – here is one for the UK National Vic Brittain in February 25 – They always have nice Natural sections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not long until Christmas now, so if you want to order any of our Trials riding gear – better make it quick – courier service is still working!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n ===========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Answer to the last quiz — Chris Horsefield from when these races were called “Scrambles” – no correct responses. Quiz today – who on what and where? =================================== The Social media is full of the KTM story, lots of reports on who is to blame etc – all of which will continue into the new… Continue reading Monday December 2nd\/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\/6155"}],"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=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/battle-of-the-dustbins-1954.jpg\")
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