{"id":9388,"date":"2025-07-17T07:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=9388"},"modified":"2025-07-17T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:41:48","slug":"thursday-july-17th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/07\/17\/thursday-july-17th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday July 17th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the last quiz – road racer John (moon eyes) Cooper always did well on British short circuits. – Bob Clark was first in with the correct response, followed by Harlow ad Neil Carter., – Pete Varey and Peter Le Grove. – and later David Brooks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today – Guess who.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The VMC hosted the “Boomer” Trial last weekend to celebrate the life of John Gronow a long time member and a real “character” – only 14 riders showed up maybe because of the heat, but I’m sure they all had fun – Roger sent us the info with a couple of pics by Dale Coull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is evergreen Gary Nordstrom still enjoying his Trials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below, Paul Gronow trying hard – Paul used to come to our Outlaw events years ago ( like a lot of other west coast riders)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jon English posted to say he had a really good time competing at the US trial last weekend – at 45 years old he is still on top of his game. – Not many enter their first World round at that age these days. – No word on whether he plans on doing another Scottish in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my recent blog – I mentioned camping high up in the Mountains of Switzerland – and this pic brought back memories of waking up in our tent to the sound of the cowbells as they were herded up to the higher mountain. slopes. – Neat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We saw this posted – what a great group of kids at a learn to ride trial event – good to see. -The future is in their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s another pic from when we used to mail out a monthly Newsletter – only Caroline still has a Trials bike. – (That was when we sold GG)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another old pic that just showed up – the start line at the 1976 Moose Mountain Two Day 200 mile Cross Country – 172 riders on the line – my bike is arrowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – road racer John (moon eyes) Cooper always did well on British short circuits. – Bob Clark was first in with the correct response, followed by Harlow ad Neil Carter., – Pete Varey and Peter Le Grove. – and later David Brooks. Quiz today – Guess who. =========================================== The VMC… Continue reading Thursday July 17th\/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\/9388"}],"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=9388"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}