{"id":9988,"date":"2025-08-27T06:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/?p=9988"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T13:55:36","slug":"wednesday-august-27th-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/27\/wednesday-august-27th-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday August 27th\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Answer to the 2nd quiz yesterday &#8211; that was Sammy Miller taking a dive (and a five) at Waterworks Corner in the Isle of Man &#8211; He was unhurt. &#8211; As older bloggers will know Sammy was a World Class Road racer, before he quit to concentrate on Trials full time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pete Varey and Brett both got that one &#8211; The other group shot up on Joss Mountain had quite a few that I can&#8217;t even remember -that was sure a crappy day up top &#8211; a few I can recall, are Steve Fracy &#8211; Banjo Bobby, Taff, Bob Clark, Stan, Paul Gronow and a few others ( I&#8217;m standing in the centre)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quiz today  Guess who and where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Steay-eddie-at-Kickstart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Steay-eddie-at-Kickstart.jpg 810w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Steay-eddie-at-Kickstart-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Steay-eddie-at-Kickstart-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>============================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week is of course all about the ISDE in Italy &#8211; with lots of video coverage &#8211; nice to see this as modern electronics bring events into our front room. &#8211; As you saw in the results yesterday &#8211; Team Italy are looking strong in the Trophy, as are France, Australia and Spain, with the Yanks not far back. &#8211; We watched the MX test on You Tube yesterday and it looked to be a great track, with ideal conditions.  You can also see updates on our Cannucks, who seem to be struggling a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>==========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We heard back from Stan to say the Yale fire is on the other side of the Fraser river, and about 10miles from his place &#8211; so all good at the moment, but with everything so dry and the long weekend ahead &#8211; things could still get tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>=========================================<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some old results our bloggers might find interesting!! Back then riders had to qualify in order to ride the Experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"483\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/British-Experts-Trial-winners-483x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/British-Experts-Trial-winners-483x1024.jpg 483w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/British-Experts-Trial-winners-141x300.jpg 141w, https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/British-Experts-Trial-winners.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>====================================<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer to the 2nd quiz yesterday &#8211; that was Sammy Miller taking a dive (and a five) at Waterworks Corner in the Isle of Man &#8211; He was unhurt. &#8211; As older bloggers will know Sammy was a World Class Road racer, before he quit to concentrate on Trials full time. Pete Varey and Brett&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/2025\/08\/27\/wednesday-august-27th-25\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday August 27th\/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\/9988"}],"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=9988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9994,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9988\/revisions\/9994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outlawtrials.com\/davesblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}