{"id":7248,"date":"2025-02-12T05:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=7248"},"modified":"2025-02-12T05:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:43:15","slug":"wednesday-february-12th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/12\/wednesday-february-12th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday February 12th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Answer to our last quiz &#8211; Trevor Howarth from Ontario a former Canadian Trials Champ. &#8211; He still rides and recently won his class in the States. &#8211; Correct guess&#8217; s from Pete Varey, Brett, Graham Coburn, and Bob Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today  Guess who this rider is on an Outlaw Sherco?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gord-Lalonde-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gord-Lalonde-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gord-Lalonde-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gord-Lalonde-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gord-Lalonde.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason Jordi has been a success &#8211; he is passionate about his bikes and checks them personally on a regular basis,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jordi-checking-new-TRS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jordi-checking-new-TRS.jpg 480w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Jordi-checking-new-TRS-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nice to hear from our old friend John Kitchener, who has now returned to live in the UK, but who still clicks on our blog &#8211; He sent this pic of the medal he won in Wales at the 1983 ISDE which we reported on. -Believe me, anybody who finished that mudfest, deserved a medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ISDE-1983-medal-John-Kitch.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ISDE-1983-medal-John-Kitch.jpg 450w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ISDE-1983-medal-John-Kitch-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is an unusual bike &#8211;  a DOT road-racer, fitted with a rotary valve engine &#8211; No idea how it worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dot-Rotory-valve-road-racer-1952-TT-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dot-Rotory-valve-road-racer-1952-TT-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dot-Rotory-valve-road-racer-1952-TT-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dot-Rotory-valve-road-racer-1952-TT-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dot-Rotory-valve-road-racer-1952-TT-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dot-Rotory-valve-road-racer-1952-TT-1568x1176.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Dot-Rotory-valve-road-racer-1952-TT.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a blast from the past &#8211; The day I took Sammy King out to Silver Creek for some practice on the Beta, when he first arrived in Canada on holiday. &#8211; No he did NOT ride up the waterfall!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5908.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5908.jpg 636w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5908-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG_5908-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>we saw this old video that just cropped up on FB from a ride we did back in 2013 at Bear Creek, as you will see if you click on our Face book page &#8211; it was a beautiful sunny day in February with still some snow up on the ridge. As usual, I&#8217;m on an Evo 200. &#8211; ( obviously like most sections you see on video &#8211; it&#8217;s a lot trickier than it appears)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"706\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-3.png 706w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-3-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer to our last quiz &#8211; Trevor Howarth from Ontario a former Canadian Trials Champ. &#8211; He still rides and recently won his class in the States. &#8211; Correct guess&#8217; s from Pete Varey, Brett, Graham Coburn, and Bob Clark. Quiz today Guess who this rider is on an Outlaw Sherco? ============================================ The reason Jordi&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/12\/wednesday-february-12th-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday February 12th\/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\/7248"}],"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=7248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7257,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7248\/revisions\/7257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}