I wish I could touch my toes again, as simple as it seems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life wasn’t the same when reality came, to savage all my dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If only I’d realised back then, the things that I know now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’d have stretched my body every day as much as it would allow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wish I could drive my car again, and go on my motorbike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’d ride out for the day in the month of May, and do whatever I like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But those days – they have all gone now, of that I can be sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Old age has come a knocking, a knocking on my door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Answer to the last quiz – Martin Lampkin riding a Montesa in Scotland – the section is Laggan Locks<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Correct answers from – Pete Varey, Brett Clark, Neil Carter, Harlow Rankin -and Stan – who reminded me that Bob & Brett Clark, Peter Wylie , Bill Sparks and himself were at the Scottish that year – Bob Clark got the rider but not the section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quiz today – Guess who?<\/p>\n\n\n\n ===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today we will take a new Trials guy out for a ride and a bit of instruction – it’s always nice when we can help “Newbies” so they start right – will take some pics<\/p>\n\n\n\n ===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile our Katie is back on the Beta after her knee op – she will practice on the Outlaw 200 until her new Factory Beta 250 gets here – she sent us this pic from Ross’ place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n =======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Young American rider Ryon Land won in Portugal on Day one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n A pic from the days when full fairings were fitted to the road race bikes – The Brits called them “Dustbin Fairings” – This is a 250 race at Monza and #16 is none other than the great Sammy Miller. on the far right is John Surtees #4. – As reported earlier – These full fairings were banned by the FIM after some fatalities caused by cross winds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday was a Golf day – watching the Masters – good to see Rory McIlroy doing well but Cannuck Cory Connors also in the hunt. – later I watched a very good Trials video on You Tube – no not a World Round or other hop & bop – This was the Youth National from the UK – now that was fun to watch – no wonder the Brits have a ton of young talent now doing well. Check it out..<\/p>\n\n\n\n ==========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A poem to make one think, by Roger Bailey. ‘I WISH’ I wish I could run up those stairs again, just like I used to do. I’d go jogging for miles, vault over the stiles, when I was twenty two. But that was many years ago, the time has flown so fast. And now I’m… Continue reading Sunday April 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\/8193"}],"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=8193"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8207,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8193\/revisions\/8207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/john-brittain-RE-age-is-just-a-number.jpg\")
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