{"id":9763,"date":"2025-08-13T08:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=9763"},"modified":"2025-08-13T09:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:16:23","slug":"wednesday-august-13th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/13\/wednesday-august-13th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday August 13th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the last quiz – Andreu Cordina on the Gas Gas at Ioco in 1990 – The year Mountain MC started to Import the brand. – Not surprisingly Brett got that one pretty quick as did Harlow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today a tough one, but in Keeping with our story about the lightweight Trials bikes. -Name this BC rider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The trend to small lightweight Trials bikes – proved popular, and Montesa brought out a 123 model, as did Honda , but both of these bikes struggled on the steep sections of the early 70’s. – Pete Smith from Vancouver did do well on a bored out Power-roll TL -150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montesa soon introduced the 200cc version of their small bike and this was perhaps promoted to the most success by Stan Bakgaard, who rode this in a number of World Rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Later, the Spanish Gas Gas company brought out a small bore, and we promoted this for Mountain MC, and surprised a few people, but as I’m quite small in stature and a lightweight – was an advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon Beta brought out the Evo 200, which was the idea of John Lampkin as he figured a bike with less power would be better suited for English Club Trials. – The first edition of this used a 125cc bottom end and had a 6 speed tranny, while good, the later models fitted with the 250 crank cases and larger Keihin Carb – were a huge improvement.. – we always had one of these as a demo and sold quite a few once people realized just how good they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a pic of Motorcycle Mojo gal Emily Roberts on one of our Evo 200’s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And – this could be the first time you will see a pic of Stan Bakgaard on a Beta !! Yes he has bought our Evo 200. demo – – Check out that section he has in his backyard. – He is already impressed with the bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course the lightweight two-strokes, have always been very competitive in the right hands, remember George Fisher finished 2nd overall in the 1954 Scottish on a 201 cc Francis Barnett, and just look at the performance of the young Hemingway brothers- George surprised many people at the SSDT this year on the Factory Beta 125. finishing on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Footnote. if you want to know more about these great lightweight models, give us a call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz – Andreu Cordina on the Gas Gas at Ioco in 1990 – The year Mountain MC started to Import the brand. – Not surprisingly Brett got that one pretty quick as did Harlow. Quiz today a tough one, but in Keeping with our story about the lightweight Trials bikes. -Name… Continue reading Wednesday August 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\/9763"}],"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=9763"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9776,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9763\/revisions\/9776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}