{"id":6212,"date":"2024-12-07T07:05:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2024-12-07T07:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:05:26","slug":"saturday-december-7th-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2024\/12\/07\/saturday-december-7th-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday December 7th\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If my memory serves me correct – this is the date of the Imfamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – A pic of Neil Carter – long Time Ontario Trials enthusiast and also importer for Fantic and later the new Bultaco\/Sherco for Eastern Canada. – Pete Varey got it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Who is this World Champion having a spot of bother?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a pic from the old days – it appears these Trials riders are lining up for the special test, which was how tie-breaks were sorted back when I first started riding events. – These would often be taken at the start of a hill, when the rider was told to push off from a standing start with a dead engine then coast as fast as they could until they stopped on a line farther down – this was all timed and the scores filed for later results. You can imagine how well this worked if you had just been through a tricky mud section. But nobody complained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday we showed a pic of the late Johnny Draper on a BSA Bantam in a Scramble – Well today we have a pic of his Sister Irene Draper riding a Bantam in a Trial – Irene married World MX Champion and Trials Expert – Jeff Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday I watched a recent Trials video on You Tube which showed a typical British – dare I say “Old Fashioned” Trial, which featured lots of muddy climbs. – What the viewer might find interesting, is seeing the lower class riders slipping and sliding with feet all over the place and often ending up with a “Five” – then later you see one of the good experts like Dan Thorpe, who rides the toughest line like a main road – now THAT is impressive ( Not seeing who has the biggest Gonads to throw themselves at a 12 ft wall) – It’s called “Throttle Control”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No snow on the ground in the Valley as yet !!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If my memory serves me correct – this is the date of the Imfamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Answer to the last quiz – A pic of Neil Carter – long Time Ontario Trials enthusiast and also importer for Fantic and later the new Bultaco\/Sherco for Eastern Canada. – Pete Varey… Continue reading Saturday December 7th\/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\/6212"}],"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=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6220,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/6220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}