{"id":7361,"date":"2025-02-22T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2025-02-22T03:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T10:42:45","slug":"saturday-february-22nd-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/02\/22\/saturday-february-22nd-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday February 22nd\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the last quiz – Renato Chiaberto – another regular World Round rider back in the day – All our usual bloggers got this. -Neil Pete, & Cam, from Ontario, Bob, Brett, Harlow from BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Who is the rider -on what bike and where? – Hint I took the pic in BC. and he has a funny accent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a neat shot of a James rider on Devil’s Staircase in the Scottish – not used these days, as it’s classed as being too easy for the hoppers!! – I had an identical bike to that – it had a Villiers engine with 4 speed gearbox – an update from the usual 3 speed. – Notice that the ball ended levers were not yet mandatory, and he has a tire pump strapped to the rear subframe. – I took a lot of pics at that location in 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A classic Scottish location as Bryan concentrates hard on the Devil’s Staircase on the Friday of the 1957 Scottish. Take a good look at the well-proven 201 James, for the following year Bryan would be riding the new AMC-powered model in the Highlands……… (Photo Mortons Motorcycle Media).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Another great Deryk Wylde pic of Sammy Miller on the famous Ariel GOV 132 ( Now in his museum) – it looks like that could be Ralph Venables in the left background in his “Duffle coat”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don’t forget – If you need Boots or riding gear – We can supply from stock, all at the usual low prices. – check out the ads on our site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mud can be a real challenge and not many practice this<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And another mud pic – this time it’s me taking a “5” in the first Alberta Long distance Trial in 1970 – I think everybody took the maximum on this section – I managed to take a rather surprising win in spite of this. ( Note the high front fender) – That is John Jenson left and Terry Healy helping me out of the big mud hole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reason that we post these various shots from the greatest days of Trials riding – is to show that anybody can take up the sport and have fun – but only if the local club, puts on events that are sensible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, we have noticed many riders come out to a trial for the first time, not knowing what is expected of them, not knowing the rules, and unless one of the older riders, take them “Under his\/her wing” they get totally disillusioned. – We never see them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bottom line is that everybody needs to have fun – yesterday I watched a UK trials video of a “Classic” trial – they had a ton of riders, all on pretty immaculate twin shock bikes, and all enjoying some clean rides through what appeared to be very “straight forward” sections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back at events we have hosted over the decades in Canada – I know we ALWAYS tried to put in a few “Easy” sections – just to make everybody feel good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that we always got it right – but the idea was there – remember I’m the guy that set up that first FIM Trial in Canada, back in 1975 – 69 mile loop – 40 sections – Mart Lampkin was heard to say “What does Dave think we are “Bloody Supermen” – Of course I heard this via the old fashioned 2 way radio- from way out on the course, and eased back on the difficulty – – yes everybody was happy at the end of the day. ( Rule is – You can’t change a section after somebody has ridden it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally most of the Club trials posted on You tube are very boring to watch – but as a rider we are sure they are all having FUN – and that is what it’s all about. – Trials at club level are not supposed to be a spectator sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And finally – this just in – A pic sent us by helicopter pilot and long time Trials customer Chris Hrabb – It shows Joss Mountain as it is today. – The lookout is the pinpoint at the top – as you can see there is quite a drop down into Three Valley Gap. Ah ! yes the memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks Chris for sharing these ( Psst Yes Chris has a TRS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is the Fire lookout in winter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – Renato Chiaberto – another regular World Round rider back in the day – All our usual bloggers got this. -Neil Pete, & Cam, from Ontario, Bob, Brett, Harlow from BC. Quiz today – Who is the rider -on what bike and where? – Hint I took the pic in… Continue reading Saturday February 22nd\/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\/7361"}],"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=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions\/7391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}