{"id":7258,"date":"2025-02-13T06:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=7258"},"modified":"2025-02-13T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T15:55:42","slug":"thursday-february-13th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/13\/thursday-february-13th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday February 13th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Answer to our last quiz &#8211; Gord Lalonde who now lives in Australia &#8211; Gord was a top rate rider, who competed in Trials, Cross Country and Ice racing &#8211; with a sidecar as well on the ice. &#8211; He lived just South of Calgary with Donna and their two girls, before uprooting to emigrate &#8220;Down -under&#8221; &#8211; I remember when Yamaha brought out the XT500 four-stroke in 1976 &#8211; I got one and after unloading all the heavy stuff we could at Walt&#8217;s &#8211; we studded it up and took it out to Chestermere Lake where the Calgary club had a clubhouse. &#8211; Although I was never an ice racer (too cold) I did enjoy blasting the XT around the track &#8211; I found &#8220;feet up&#8221; cornering possible &#8211; it got so much traction. &#8211; After that I let Gord race it, but it was at a big horse-power disadvantage to the 400cc 2 T bikes &#8211; Another bike and event that I wish I had pics of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Again it was  Brett then Harlow who recognized our rider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today. Who is this rider ? Hint the pic was one I took at a Alberta Trial near Indian Graves.<\/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\/Heather-Wall-at-Indian-Graves-692x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Heather-Wall-at-Indian-Graves-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Heather-Wall-at-Indian-Graves-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Heather-Wall-at-Indian-Graves-768x1136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Heather-Wall-at-Indian-Graves.jpg 1038w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend is the Canadian Hall of Fame in Vancouver, and as noted previously, this year Roger Boothroyd is being inducted &#8211; We hope it goes well, looks like a lot of our old friends will be going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also this weekend it&#8217;s the Lewisport trial down South of the border, we are not sure if any Cannucks will attend, but from looking at the pics they posted of the section set up &#8211; it should be great. &#8211; Adrian Lewis used to have a shop in Scotland, so he knows a bit about setting up a proper  Trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorting through some old CD&#8217;s ( We have a ton) came across these pics from testing the new Beta at Bear Creek with big Gerry from Prince George. &#8211; The top one is when we got one of the new Evo 300&#8217;s &#8211; Yes I managed to hold on to it!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"415\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2013-Beta-Evo-300-test-at-Bear-Creek-016-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2013-Beta-Evo-300-test-at-Bear-Creek-016-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2013-Beta-Evo-300-test-at-Bear-Creek-016-2-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Big-Jerry-up-in-the-snow-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Big-Jerry-up-in-the-snow-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Big-Jerry-up-in-the-snow-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Big-Jerry-up-in-the-snow-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Big-Jerry-up-in-the-snow.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Group-out-at-Bear-in-the-snow-1-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Group-out-at-Bear-in-the-snow-1-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Group-out-at-Bear-in-the-snow-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Group-out-at-Bear-in-the-snow-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Group-out-at-Bear-in-the-snow-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally &#8211; Birthday Greetings to Stan Bakgaard &#8211; Not sure what age he is &#8211; always seems young!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer to our last quiz &#8211; Gord Lalonde who now lives in Australia &#8211; Gord was a top rate rider, who competed in Trials, Cross Country and Ice racing &#8211; with a sidecar as well on the ice. &#8211; He lived just South of Calgary with Donna and their two girls, before uprooting to emigrate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/13\/thursday-february-13th-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday February 13th\/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\/7258"}],"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=7258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7258\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}