{"id":9884,"date":"2025-08-22T04:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:06:01","slug":"friday-august-22nd-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/22\/friday-august-22nd-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday August 22nd\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Answer to the last quiz- Geoff Chandler, Malcolm Rathmell and Paul Dunkley – Roger Boothroyd got it all correct<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quiz today Guess who – one a bit more famous than the other!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Missed a few birthdays this past couple of days a big 100th for John Penton the guy who brought KTM’s to the States and did so much to promote them. ( as Pentons) – in BC -Bernie Graffunder is another year older and also Tori Rathbone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s been a very long time since our shop was this empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jamie sent me this pic – it shows me waving the SLOW sign to riders coming into the pits at the Cross Country race at Silver Star put on by Andrew Christianson – yes it was cold so had to dig out my old Yamaha Canada Parka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes Beta have been around for a long time!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The weather forecast for the coming week can be summed up in one word “HOT” – we hope it cools down for the Long weekend. ( We have a very special ride planned)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ISDE starts Sunday over in Italy and Team Canada are well represented – here are the ladies – We wish them luck ( hard to believe that it’s over 40 years since we did that event in Wales – Blair Sharpless was on that Team , now his daughter is riding the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the guys on that 1983 Canadian ISDE team in Wales, was Pat Horan – a great buddy, and nice to see he is still riding – this recent shot from his trip to Moab ( Paddy is the one in the middle)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a spy shot of some nice TRS bikes at Steve Saunders Shop in the UK – with two Gold models up front – Heath tells us that the new injected model works brilliant, easy to start and super smooth – best on the market he says!! – AND we have just heard that we have one available to us next month!!! If you want this one better shout up quick!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Answer to the last quiz- Geoff Chandler, Malcolm Rathmell and Paul Dunkley – Roger Boothroyd got it all correct Quiz today Guess who – one a bit more famous than the other!! ======================================= Missed a few birthdays this past couple of days a big 100th for John Penton the guy who brought KTM’s to the… Continue reading Friday August 22nd\/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\/9884"}],"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=9884"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9905,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9884\/revisions\/9905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}