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Once again it was a quiet Monday – which according to the news is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. – people with Christmas debts – cold weather – and maybe for the USA democrats one to cry in their beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Again we are still OK in our Valley – bit colder but nothing too alarming in the forecast..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No news from people who might have attended the Bike Show – guess we will have to wait until Emily stops by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We are still getting caught up on stuff after the Postal strike – that sure caused a lot of grief for small business !! – us included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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As it’s Sled season – here is a look back from the 70’s, when I worked for Yamaha and spent most winter weekends around the oval racing events. this pic shows John Arcand with our lad Steven in front. – The sled is a Walt Healy air-cooled, GPX 440 and that is my first company car in the background. John was a good racer, both bikes and sleds, he died young of cancer, but boy did we have some fun times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As we have likely reported previously, we did quite a lot of sledding back then – I used to carry a demo around squeezed into the back of my Torino Station Wagon, plus I did a bit of testing with both the Japanese and Bob Work. ( Think I still have a bad back from that)<\/p>\n\n\n\n ==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below is a pic that I could likely post as a quiz and nobody would get it – Famous TT winner Stanly Woods – but out on a Trials bike – looks to be an early Sherpa T with the radial head – also noticed rather strange routing of the throttle cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n =====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember when we had a brief flurry of Trials interest in Revvy? here is a pic somebody took while I was out with my camera at a Trial Florian put on – this is a great area and could still host some good events, but it needs somebody to organize. – it has a lot going for it, with possible long loops and three quarries that have great rocks. – In this pic you see Emily plus Ross and others..<\/p>\n\n\n\n ==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n And for no particular reason, here is a pic of Mick and that first revolutionary TY Mono – Mick is to be the guest of honor at next months Classic Bike show in Telford UK ( Telford was a completely new town, built while we still lived over there and only about 40 miles away) – I liked everything on that bike -except the brown seat cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n I took this pic of Christy up high above Ymir a few years ago – we were there for one of the great events that Pete, Steve & Jay put on – think it was when we had the Outlaw series. – The weather was perfect, so a group of us went exploring before the Trial, up some of the neat trails on the mountain ( I think I may have been on a Sherco that time as we were still selling them) – Fortunately Jay knew the area!! – I know Christy amazed us all by zapping over a huge uphill log blocking the trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ===========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Answer to the last quiz- Toni Gorgot – correctly guessed by Pete Vary – Brett and Neil Carter. and Harlow.- plus Stan down in Mexico. Quiz today -Who is this with the nice Greeves, and what is so special about that bike and rider? ============================================ Once again it was a quiet Monday – which according… Continue reading Tuesday January 21st\/25<\/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\/6845"}],"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=6845"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6845\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Screenshot-2025-01-19-164347.png\")
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