{"id":9817,"date":"2025-08-16T08:32:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=9817"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:32:43","slug":"saturday-august-16th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/16\/saturday-august-16th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday August 16th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; rider watching Taff was Todd Nordin &#8211; Brett, Jay Colley, and Stan were quick to get that one..- Plus Taff said it was Toddy watching him clean that section!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today &#8211; Who is this Famous rider, a factory Trials rider for Norton before taking up road racing &#8211; unusual pic on a DOT. &#8211; Also ! What does DOT stand for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Geoff-Duke-on-a-DOT-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Geoff-Duke-on-a-DOT-1.jpg 526w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Geoff-Duke-on-a-DOT-1-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>======================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of people posted how they were impressed with the pic of Stan on the Evo 200, so here is another one &#8211; Yup that&#8217;s a big rock!! I wonder what gear he used?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"911\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stan-evo-1-911x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stan-evo-1-911x1024.jpg 911w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stan-evo-1-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stan-evo-1-768x863.jpg 768w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Stan-evo-1.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 911px) 100vw, 911px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Roger Boothroyd sent me this pic of the days when &#8220;Scrambling&#8221; in the UK often was held on very muddy tracks in the winter months.  Arthur Lampkin and Jeff Smith are good friends and both still alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Arthur-Lampkin-440-BSA-Jeff-Smith-Behind.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Arthur-Lampkin-440-BSA-Jeff-Smith-Behind.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Arthur-Lampkin-440-BSA-Jeff-Smith-Behind-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great to see some widespread rain in BC &#8211; hopefully this will help the firefight going on over at Vancouver Island and other places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that Vertigo make a submarine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dougie-Vertigo-submarine.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dougie-Vertigo-submarine.jpg 822w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dougie-Vertigo-submarine-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dougie-Vertigo-submarine-768x505.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>===========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As our regular bloggers know, one of my favorite bikes these days, is the TRS estart-fitted with the Xtrack kit &#8211; but long before this came on the market, Beta had this really great model that should have sold  in droves!! &#8211; the ALP was fitted with a seat and larger gas-tank, and a closer range tranny, &#8211; we really liked it &#8211; all except the short stubby kickstart lever. &#8211; We always regret selling this bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/095.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/095.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/095-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is our TRS 250 estart &#8211;  fitted with the Xtrack kit <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123.jpg 600w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/123-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>=========================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer to the last quiz &#8211; rider watching Taff was Todd Nordin &#8211; Brett, Jay Colley, and Stan were quick to get that one..- Plus Taff said it was Toddy watching him clean that section!!! Quiz today &#8211; Who is this Famous rider, a factory Trials rider for Norton before taking up road racing &#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/16\/saturday-august-16th-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday August 16th\/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\/9817"}],"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=9817"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9832,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9817\/revisions\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}