{"id":7224,"date":"2025-02-11T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2025-02-11T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:05:31","slug":"tuesday-february-11th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/11\/tuesday-february-11th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday February 11th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the last quiz – Our buddy Peter Brown who left us too early – Pete helped me a lot in setting up the Outlaw Trials in Summerland, and bugged the hell out of me to bring him in one of the Sherco 4T 320cc – which in the end I did – Now Sherco did not make that model in 2006-2007 after the big issues with the 2005—– ( which we have well documented) – We have to say the 2008 was a big improvement after the factory did a few things we (Jimmy Corkle and myself) suggested — ( and likely other people as well) – It did start better, and in fact I quite enjoyed riding it, but poor old Pete would always be in trouble- never a “Clutch” guy – he would stall it – then tip over, and flood it – so I would have to start it for him – after a while this got to be a real chore, plus it was wearing me out!! – So – when Randy the owner of the Summerland gravel pit stopped to chat and was interested in the bike!! – I sold it from under Pete’s nose !! then got him a 2010 Beta Evo 2T – !! – Randy still has that Sherco and in fact we did a tune up for him on it last year – I also have a neat video of me riding it in a Creek section near White Lake one day out with Marcus, who had a Beta Evo 250 4T – Like I said – I rode it like a 2T using lots of clutch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a pic I took of Pete when we were out riding at Yankee Flats one day – if only he had learned to use the clutch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway – it was Jay Colley who got in 1st, followed by Brett – both of whom knew Pete quite well. –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note ! – One of the saddest times in my life was visiting Pete at the Kelowna Cancer Clinic and just holding his hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quiz today – Who is this rider ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a neat recent pic ( maybe from Telford) of the British ISDE Team from the 1983 event in Wales – the guy on the left was a great rider from Wales, and next to him big Arthur Browning ( who rode a TT 600) – We had Paddy Horan also on a TT 600 Walt Healy bike and the German Team also had a few of them – But as our bloggers will all know it was Team Canada who shone that week, finishing 2nd in the Silver Vase class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Motel we stayed at put on a big Party for the Canadian team at the end of the week – left to right – Ken Allen – Bert Irwin (Team Manager)- Dave Rhodes, (Yamaha Team Manager)- John Davies Yamaha dealer from Brecon and his buddy. – Yes it was quite a party. – Interesting to note – that the Yamaha Canada tie I’m wearing, got swapped with the Welsh one that John has on – We still have that. — ( his idea)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And finally – I watched a very good TV program called “Kennedy” – It was the story of John F Kennedy, likely the President who saved the World from a Nuclear War – If you did not see this – you should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we have the latest US President who appears to be a real “loose Cannon”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sad to hear Dave Wildman has died, heard lots of stories about him from the VMC crowd. I met him once when he had a shop in Coquitlam. – He not only raced in the TT he was a regular at Westwood in both solo and sidecar events. I’m sure Roger Boothroyd has a ton of info on this great UK\/Canadian star.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – Our buddy Peter Brown who left us too early – Pete helped me a lot in setting up the Outlaw Trials in Summerland, and bugged the hell out of me to bring him in one of the Sherco 4T 320cc – which in the end I did – Now… Continue reading Tuesday February 11th\/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\/7224"}],"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=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}