{"id":921,"date":"2023-12-14T07:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2023-12-14T07:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:15:28","slug":"thursday-december-14th-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2023\/12\/14\/thursday-december-14th-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday December 14th\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As we will likely have a lot of snow pics to post in the next few months &#8211; I thought I would show these from an August day in the Mountains a few years ago &#8211; this was one of our first climbs up to the 8,00ft Summit of Joss Mountain &#8211; the top pic shows us hiking back down from the lookout &#8211; I&#8217;m in the yellow jacket &#8211; the bottom one shows the lads all standing by my Beta Rev 3 &#8211; which was the bike that got the farthest up that last ridge. &#8211; It shows Taff and Mark &#8211; plus Paul still hiking up &#8211; Sadly the guy in the red jacket from the USA committed suicide the following year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"831\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6717.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-922\" style=\"width:610px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6717.jpg 831w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6717-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6717-768x443.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"638\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6716.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6716.jpg 638w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_6716-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the Ossa that I gave Jimmy Corkle a few years ago &#8211; I wonder  what happened to that? It was an Explorer model which I adapted into Trials mode &#8211; including a Beta front fender. Check out that god awful kickstart lever that Ossa had  &#8211; a leg gouger for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"616\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5422.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5422.jpg 616w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5422-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is an early story about Jeff Smith -A brilliant rider and still alive as far as we know, he moved to the USA after he became involved with the Can Am project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Jeff-Smith-magazine-article.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Jeff-Smith-magazine-article.jpg 470w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Jeff-Smith-magazine-article-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>====================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer to the Wednesday quiz &#8211; tough unless you rode Okanagan Trials a few years ago &#8211; Luke Towers seen riding one of the obstacles that Barry built for a demo we did at Vernon Yamaha back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only Brett Clark got that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>QUIZ &#8211; Who can name all these riders ???<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Old-group-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Old-group-pic.jpg 640w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Old-group-pic-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below are some old results from a US National &#8211; a few familiar names in there &#8211; quite a few Beta&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Old-USA-results.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Old-USA-results.jpg 468w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Old-USA-results-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>==================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems like I&#8217;ve been riding Evo 200&#8217;s for ever &#8211; just came across another old pic. ( And yes we have a brand new one in the shop!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8717.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8717.jpg 634w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_8717-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we will likely have a lot of snow pics to post in the next few months &#8211; I thought I would show these from an August day in the Mountains a few years ago &#8211; this was one of our first climbs up to the 8,00ft Summit of Joss Mountain &#8211; the top pic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2023\/12\/14\/thursday-december-14th-23\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday December 14th\/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\/921"}],"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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}