{"id":763,"date":"2023-12-03T07:37:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2023-12-03T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T14:41:12","slug":"sunday-december-3rd-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2023\/12\/03\/sunday-december-3rd-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday December 3rd\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the Saturday Quiz – Steve Colley -(Beta) section is Craig Lundie – at the 1992 Scottish Six Days — Stan got it correct. ( He is in California today) – He emailed to say he had a good ride at that section in 2013 but not so good in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Troupe posted this pic of Stan – it was taken by Harlow Rankin – reminded me of a little story – it was back in late 1983 that I was chatting to Stan on the Yamaha booth at the Calgary Motorcycle Show and showing him the new TY 250 which was coming out the following year. I was able to put together a deal with him to ride a Walt Healy Yamaha – likely the last good thing I did at Yamaha Canada, before leaving the company in February 1984. ( Yes that was a tough decision but the Japanese were in a real spot with way too many bikes to sell and just stopped listening- they wanted to relocate me to Richmond which was never going to happen )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately the Yamaha deal for Stan turned out great and in fact he had his best finish that year at the Scottish Six Days 13th !! best ever by a Canadian. – Glad to say we have remained friends ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the TY era – we got Stan on a JCM for 1981 – but that bike was never that good – so then it was the Sherco years. – and more recently Stan has bought a TRS from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly enough – Stan still has the Walt Healy TY – much modified over the years. – plus he also has a Majesty twinshock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other good thing I managed to do before I left Yamaha, was organize a team of riders to go to the 1983 ISDE in Wales – it took a lot of behind the scenes work over many months – to get the Yamaha UK Importer to supply us with this huge transporter and arrange everything – Walt was again our hero, supplying the TT 600 for Pat Horan to ride on the Trophy Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No idea who this lady is or who took the photo – but what a great shot with the old Norton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have not been the only ones to have overnight snow for an important Trial – this was an Irish round back in the day – and many events in the UK have been cancelled today because of snow!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are the results from that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a big night for the Trials stars last night in Liverpool England, where they held the FIM Awards. – Pic shows Dougie Lampkin with the Hemingway’s – – The lads clean up well!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the Saturday Quiz – Steve Colley -(Beta) section is Craig Lundie – at the 1992 Scottish Six Days — Stan got it correct. ( He is in California today) – He emailed to say he had a good ride at that section in 2013 but not so good in 2017. Steve Troupe posted… Continue reading Sunday December 3rd\/23<\/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\/763"}],"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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}