{"id":7580,"date":"2025-03-08T07:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=7580"},"modified":"2025-03-08T07:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:33:18","slug":"saturday-march-8th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/03\/08\/saturday-march-8th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday March 8th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the Friday quiz – Mark Barnett – Jeff ward – Broc Glover and David Baily. – Cam Whiffing was first in with the correct answer, followed by Bob from Mountain MC – Stan got three of four. – As most will know – it was David Baily’s – Dad – Gary Baily, who was likely the first guy to promote Super Cross – which included a huge double jump, he called a “Table-top’- sadly his son crashed on this and broke his back, regulating him to a wheel chair. – -Those tracks were leveled off after that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hate to say it, but I see the same mentality with regard to World Trials at the moment. – are fans really wanting to see a rider get maimed for life or worse????<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And on a lighter note – Well ! maybe !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quiz for today – Maybe a toughie ??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who is this on the Beta ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have posted before, about the fact that it was seeing my school buddy with a Brand New BSA Bantam back in 1953, that planted the bug with me as a 15 yr old. – While I never did own one of these. – I later saw the guy below, Brian Stonebridge a factory BSA rider “Blitz” a lot of much bigger 500cc 4 bangers at Hawkstone Park – it was absolutely mind boggling to see him passing the big bore bikes on this very special Bantam fitted with the CZ type expansion chamber exhaust. ( Sadly Brian was killed in a car crash after developing the top selling Greeves bikes) – Stonebridge, like most top riders of their time, also rode Trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have often mentioned the fact that “Trials riding” – is a thinking man’s or ladies sport. – Although the modern trend seen on You Tube sometimes projects a circus type event. – The fact is that ( I know I sound like a broken record) Trials are not really a spectator sport – they are enjoyed best, by people who like to think and plan, although of course having riding ability and correct bike “set up” is super important. – In the UK it was always about getting out for a day in the Countryside – a long ride both on country roads and rough moorland terrain. – of course the “sections” were always quite different – perhaps a muddy bog – a rocky stream or a cambered hill, and everybody rode the same line. ( Exactly like it is today in the Scottish Six Day Trial)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ultimate idea, was of course to lose the fewest (lowest) points possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The skilled rider, would often watch closely, as his competitors tackled a section and if it was taking a lot of points – they would then try to gain an advantage by a very “LONG Dab” – see below – remember sometimes scrambling through a section for a three could perhaps be the difference in winning or losing. – Yup! it’s a “Head game” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don’t forget !! clocks go FORWARD tonight!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the Friday quiz – Mark Barnett – Jeff ward – Broc Glover and David Baily. – Cam Whiffing was first in with the correct answer, followed by Bob from Mountain MC – Stan got three of four. – As most will know – it was David Baily’s – Dad – Gary Baily, who… Continue reading Saturday March 8th\/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\/7580"}],"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=7580"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7592,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7580\/revisions\/7592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}