{"id":7125,"date":"2025-02-05T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2025-02-05T09:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:12:01","slug":"wednesday-february-5th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/05\/wednesday-february-5th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday February 5th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We had a bit of a brain-fade yesterday in our early blog posting with the date ! thanks to Jack Chant of Calgary who let us know &#8211; all good now and also today as it really is February 5th. &#8211; Jack picked it up because Feb 3rd was his birthday!!! &#8211; Happy birthday buddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; Christian Rayer &#8211; the French rider who did some testing for Yamaha before the TY 1974 was produced &#8211; He also helped Montesa, which is what he is seen riding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only one correct answer &#8211; Harlow Rankin so Kudus to him<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today. &#8211; Who is this well known Canadian rider?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"777\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cowichan-Creek-Trial-1979-Bob-Clark-1024x777.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cowichan-Creek-Trial-1979-Bob-Clark-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cowichan-Creek-Trial-1979-Bob-Clark-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cowichan-Creek-Trial-1979-Bob-Clark-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cowichan-Creek-Trial-1979-Bob-Clark.jpg 1165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a pic of the Norton Factory, showing all the bikes ready for wartime duty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"517\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Norton-bikes-ready-for-wartime.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Norton-bikes-ready-for-wartime.jpg 517w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Norton-bikes-ready-for-wartime-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a pic Stan sent us of Bruce Baker riding one of the gullies they have been working on in Mexico &#8211; Bruce is on one of my TRS estart Demo bikes. &#8211; Looks like a knarly section. ( Pic by Stan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7129\" style=\"width:610px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1.png 361w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-1-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her name is Gwen white, and in the late 40&#8217;s early 50&#8217;s she was a force to be reckoned with in British trials, she rode the Scottish and also the ISDT &#8211; outperforming many of the men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gwen-White-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gwen-White-2.jpg 508w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gwen-White-2-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked at this beauty, and thought for a minute of updating the mint TY 175 we have in a corner of the shop &#8211; then I woke up!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TY-175-Beauty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TY-175-Beauty.jpg 526w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/TY-175-Beauty-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Birthday greetings today to Kolton Morrison. from the Shuswap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=====================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a bit of a brain-fade yesterday in our early blog posting with the date ! thanks to Jack Chant of Calgary who let us know &#8211; all good now and also today as it really is February 5th. &#8211; Jack picked it up because Feb 3rd was his birthday!!! &#8211; Happy birthday buddy.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/05\/wednesday-february-5th-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday February 5th\/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\/7125"}],"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=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}