| Author | Message | ||
     Smitty808 |
I have got the bug for a trials bike! My nephew bought one cheap, and I got to ride it a few times(before he sold it!  ), and I fell in love. Anyone here tinker with them?? Is there a forum on the net somewhere dedicated to them? I looked around, and haven't seen anything. | ||
| Sleez |
a good place to start; http://www.trialstrainingcenter.com/ | ||
| Ceejay |
I asked this question a while back, it doesn't that too many people are into it on here I'd still like to try it, but they seem hard to find. | ||
| Bcordb3 |
In 60's and the early 70's I had an interest in trials riding. I worked for a shop that sold Ossa's and a few of the guys that worked there rode Ossa Plunkers, 250cc trials bikes. I did dap around a bit on the shop bike. I was a lot of fun and not as easy as it looks. The mantra of the trials guys was "anybody can ride fast, but not everybody can ride slow". A very true statement. All the Spanish bikes had trials bikes, Bultaco Sherpa T, Ossa Plunker, Montessa (I forgot what they called theirs). Yamaha made one, Honda had 125cc four stroke that was a lot of fun to ride. Modern day trials are so much different and more specialized than they were in the old days. I looked in the New England Trials Assn. website about a year ago and got a lot of information from that site, not for New England but nationwide. I think it would be a good place to start gathering info. REMEMBER TO KEEP YOUR FEET ON THE PEGS! | ||
| Bcordb3 |
CeeJay - I remember that thread! That sparked my interest to do the research that I did on line. Cool sport. | ||
| Etennuly |
I used to trail ride with guys who rode those bikes back then. What a hoot, those things would ride up a tree trunk and under a big limb until they would complete a 360 back to the ground. I also saw them ride one of the Honda 125's under water for about 200 feet before it quit! The guy was standing on the pegs reaching down to the bars with only his head out of the water. Have you seen the new sport on Speed Ch where they do an indoor enduro? A couple of weeks ago a guy won on the only trials bike at the event. He carried it, I think it was from Ohio to Vegas, in the trunk of his borrowed mothers car. She had to give him gas money. Now THAT is awesome! | ||
| Ceejay |
I used to do it somewhat on a 20" bicycle and then started doing it on a mountain bike. riding highway dividers, hoping sideways down stairwells is about as far as I got. putting a motor on one seems like it would open up a lot more areas for fun. Tree rides are way cool. I even started looking around for one, but that's as far as I got. I was hoping to get one to have a lot of fun on and they looked to be real easy to learn how to ride with so I could teach my wife and later on my kids. Still want to get one and you see them pop up on e-bay every now and then. I work next to OSU campus and there are so many fun things to jump off of and ride around on. There was an awesome trials video running around here I think that had me getting my checkbook out, but my head cleared a bit, at least until fall... | ||
| Bake |
High on my list of bikes to buy next, the new 4 strokes are killer! "dirtrider.net" has a good trials forum (Message edited by bake on January 31, 2007) | ||
| Djkaplan |
I competed in a trials competition during the 'trials boom' of the 70's (a boom that never actually happened). I was on a borrowed RL250 'Exacta', Suzuki's first (only?) attempt at a production plonker. It looked like a fish, I remember. I thought I was doing great until I stalled the bike and was automatically disqualified. That was my entire trials experience - I was only 14. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-962009585 459057396 FIM World Championship video. WOW! More vids of the same, on the right side listing | ||
| Imeazy |
Here's a thread about one on Adv. Rider. http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20 0947 | ||
| Bake |
http://www.trialsection.com/videoraga/MOV00137.MPG | ||
| Akbuell |
Still have my Ossa Mick Andrews Replica trials bike. (Another project to resurrect) Truly enjoyed trials competition, the only motorcycle competition I know of (in those days) that didn't involve a helmet. A lot more physical than it looks. And I learned a lot more about going fast riding trials than I did riding motocross. Throttle control, traction, body position, ect, ect. Great fun! |
