| Author | Message | ||
     Iman501 |
Got bored the other night and started wasting time on youtube. Saw some trials bike videos, are any of you guys into trial bikes? Or have them? If they are as fun as they look i know what im saving up for! | ||
| Nevrenuf |
had an old susuki 250 trials some 30 years ago and they are a hoot. and although it wasn't like the new ones, it was fun. had a dog run out in front of me and the bike went over it like it was a pebble in the road. the dog got up running. | ||
| Fast1075 |
There used to be a Bultaco shop in town...the owner was nutz about trials...he was very good, rode a Sherpa 250...he would sit side saddle on it in his shop with the side stand up and talk to customers just to amaze them. Sometimes he would ride across his old volkswagen beetle for grins n giggles. When I worked at Honda in the 70's, we had a TL125 that was fun to play around on...you could turn the front wheel nearly 90 degrees....hold the brake and balance it very easily...but trials is not real big here you need to import obstacles.. | ||
| Etennuly |
When I started riding a good friend of mine had his dad teach us the fine art of dirt bike riding. We were both eighteen years old, I had a used'73 XL250 and he had an XL350, his dad had a new XL250. It was in 1975. His dad really followed the trials programs that were quite busy back then on an International level. He had friends who rode competitively on 125 trials bikes. We spent many weekends following these guys around learning and attempting some of the crap they were doing, our bikes had no chance of doing what theirs could, but it was a great learning adventure. His dad always told us that if we could ride slow and controlled we would be better riders when it was time to go fast. We spent many evenings on two hour trail outings counting points for putting a foot down or grabbing a tree to support oneself, and of course many points for the obligatory get off. Points deleted for style though, he was a fair guy. At over 200 lbs(a fit 200)back then, I was not a real candidate for the trials bike competitions. Most of those guys were 5'8" and 145 lbs and could keep their balance riding across a 2" tree limb. I rode through it. The most fun I saw them having was on an overnight trail ride where we came across a giant oak tree near our campground. It had a major limb at about 8' off the ground that was rounded at the bottom and went out at 90 degrees from the ground. They were seeing who could ride the furthest upside down on the bottom of that limb. It was also amazing how far they could go completely submerged under water. Cool bikes for sure. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
I must have been watching similar videos.... I was thinking my next bike was leaning toward SuMo.... but now I am thinking Trials, flat black, quiet pipe and terrorize every skate park I can find. growin up is for old saps | ||
| Iman501 |
cityslicker i'm with you, i want a supermoto as well, but i figure my buell can be for the street, and if i want bike to go anywere else other than the road then i should probably get something like a dirt bike or trials, and the skate park idea is a good one haha except i dont live in town and im not sure i'm game for riding a trials bike into town, so if i had one i'd just tear up the woods behind my house and the neighborhood  I've been looking for used ones for sale online, and there are not to many of them in illinois....that i can find anyway....plus one that wont cost to much | ||
| Cityxslicker |
I am debating between the FXbike and finishiing the Whizzer in the garage, but with an off road motif to it..... something that broaches the line between bicycle, motorcycle; great for RV camping... and perfect for bombing the bike trail at 230 in the morning  | ||
| Iman501 |
i found what i think is the only trials bike in illinois on CL haha http://carbondale.craigslist.org/mcy/1930027032.ht ml i texted him and he's asking $1000 which i think is fair as long as it runs right and everything but my dads not a big fan of it b/c he says the woods behind my house arent "ours" to ride in (technically they are state park property but theres no trails or people in this part of the woods.....lol | ||
| Bcordb3 |
The Trails riders who came into the shop I used work in late 60's and 70's had a saying "Anybody, could ride fast! But not everyone could ride slow! It took some real balance not to take a Dab. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
There was a "Brandy new,in the CRATE!!! " 2003 ,280 Gas Gas on eBay last week. A $2.650.00 bid did not make reserve. I want that bike,but need a 200' concrete drive way first.  |
