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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nOf course Babsy has had to put up with Motorcycles taking up a lot of my time, but I think she also enjoyed the early years especially the weekend campouts at Trials or Cross Country races. Most of this was in Alberta, where we had quite a large group of friends meeting up each weekend, campfires and sing-a longs with lots of kids around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– At our family dinner at the weekend – Babs once again told the story of how I first (and last) time I tried to teach her how to ride my Sherpa T Trials bike !! Yes it was a disaster!!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During my time working for Yamaha, Babs was able to go with me on quite a few trips. including to Japan – as you can imagine – she made quite the impression at the night clubs we visited as she was ‘Blonde’ at that time and was taller than most Japanese on the dancefloor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because we lived in Wales during those early years, we were always singing and this has always been something very special – we quite often sang together at parties including this one at a Welsh pub back in 1995 when we were over in the UK. ( first time this pic has been seen by most- and yes we were pretty good, as are most Welsh people)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Babs has become a friend and mother figure to lots of riders over the years – here she is with Katie and Emily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes 63 years went by much quicker than I thought. – Babs or Mrs Outlaw is still the one who keeps me and this site going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n No Quiz today – But a ton guessed the last one of Mart Lampkin!<\/p>\n\n\n\n ============================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well I have to say a big thanks to all of you bloggers, who posted wishing Babs and myself a Happy anniversary – I never thought 63 years would go so fast!!! As I recall, I had taken a break from competition when I met Babs, at a Saturday night dance. – It was a… Continue reading Tuesday June 10th\/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\/8965"}],"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=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8975,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions\/8975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/004-Copy.jpg\")
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