judyf

99% of what jack burrnicle says is rubbish but, it is true that the sections used in the spanish indoors are the same as used in the world indoors (in spain) but spain do have 4 indoors in a season to our 1 or ireland 2. they even use the same sections in the outdoors! in the man made sections, they move the sections around but mostly stay the same, so when bou, raga, albert and jeroni ride in the barcelona and madrid indoors they have already ridden the sections about 20 times before! an indoor series would be good for the sport but there would be a problem with venues and funding, trials in spain gets about as much interest in spain as like football does over here, so they can get the crowds to pay for it, even if every person who went to hawkstone came to all the indoors in the u.k that still wouldnt be enough to fund a season, would be good tho .

ha ha, yeah its all pretty good stuff, the version ive seen has got music over the top so couldnt hear the swearing, hopefully it might catch on in the u.k (not the swearing), bringing bmx/motor cross skills in with trials.

well said crosser, trials will never be a spectator sport because its not racing! most people wanna see racing and trials is as far away as you can get, people who ride trials love trials, people who dont, dont even know what it is or watch it for about 5minutes and think wow, but after 5mins there not that bothered and just ask question like " how fast is your bike?" at least everyone who rides trials knows how good it is and that we are the most talented of motorcycle riders!!!!!!!!!!

this might be old news but just been on the website outofsection.com which is julien dupont, fred crosset, takumi narita and isao shibuya doing free riding trials, think ive seen some videos on the forum before but thought id share it on here, theres a dvd out aswell, hopefully it will catch on, and maybe get "free ride trials in the X games!" have a look and see what you think, also theres another website called youtube.com, and its peoples own videos that you can put onto the nett, some good world trials videos and also toni bou doing a backflip! hope you all enjoy!

i agree with bumpy, you cant compare the riders when they havent rode aganist each other for about the last 2 years or so, when they finally do then you can have your say dabster, anyway the scott doesnt prove who is the best trials rider.

world trials would be better if they all rode standard machinery, each rider has only one minder, and in a 15 section event have like 5 ultra hard sections where the top lads will excel cos after all it is a world round, and have 5 hard and then 5 sections to like british championship standard, then the gap is not so huge, also try and have the different events in the counrtys to represent the type of location/type counrty ie, british round, british style sections, rocks, streams, mud, mud, mud,mud, banks, and then when you ride in spain have the spanish style big dry rocks and streams etc, every trial dunt have to be the same otherwise you have got a world champion at trials, you have a world big rock getter upper champion, also you shud be able to drop a couple of rounds, not every1 can afford to go to japan, usa,etc, the stops a 1 is a gud rule which they shud stick 2, the only reason it dint work was because the observers/ officals were **** scared to give the top lads a 1 for stopping or a 5 for hopping when stopped, let the observing be harsh! then there not getting away we marks, last year at hawkstone a rider would through and i would count like 5 stops and the observer would hold up clean!!!!!!.

totally agree with you boyd, there isnt anything wrong with british trials scene, i just ment the world rounds and the british championship, the s.s.d.t, scott, etc are proper trials which run on proper rules, so i dint mean these events. good points aswell bout the world rounds, but still fink something has to done about the world champs rules etc, before it gets bit silly.

if i was you i would go for the 250 for sure, and even with the 250 i would out a fly wheel weight and slow action throttle just to get use to it and maybe lower the gearing one tooth on the front sprocket, there is enough power in a 250 to do every type of event accept world/euro. lots of people go for the 280/300 and just get them selfs in to trouble.

ha ha, sorry! it was getting abit much being proper engish, and i think im prob abit younger tan you mate, Thanks for bin sarky tho, makes it worth while.

world and british trials at the moment is like a circus! the sections just get bigger and bigger but the top 5 riders are that gud they just keep cleaning them, dont get me wrong its amazing to watch, and they are the most skillful of motorcycle riders! but people who ride at a high level know its not just bout big rock steps all the time, put a 10foot rock in front of raga and lampkin un they will get up it every time, there needs to be more thought put in2 the sections, and the current rules are crap, the riders are that gud now that if you let them stop and hop without penelty they will clean almost everyfing, i remember goin to patley bridge in 93 un there was like 30 odd riders, rate gud trial, rate hard, but natural hard stuff, not rev the B*****ks off un up a massive outcrop every section which jus gets boring, un now theres like 12 riders (i know theres youths un juniors) but only oliveras/ gilbert and brown are gud enough to do the main route, oh and ely of course. there like 15 other world class riders plenty gud enough to ride world rounds (pascuet, nozaki, tanaka, bruand, etc) but wots the piont them spending **** loads of money trveling to ride them trials, its not the people who set the sections out cos they do a great job, i know wot its like you can never please every1 and its hard work, its not them whos at blame for the sections, its the f.i.m, and the a.c.u, they need to realise that the sections cant keep getting harder, jus make them more like trials, raga would drop more in a novgar than a world round at the moment (well he wunt but u know wot i mean) in formula and racing it was getting to dangerous and fast so they alter the tracks and the bikes, they need to do the same we trials, also instead of the a.c.u sending like 7 members and officals to every world round and staying in hotels, drinking wine, dancing we bitches and not actually knowing why they are there accept spending our entry fee money on stuff they dont need to, or throwing big dinners at fancey hotels when the cud be investing money like wot the other countrys do in there top riders, at the moment we have the best young riders in the world, and if the a.c.u stop spending all our money on ****, and them selfs and invested it in, dabil, brown, morris,danby,challoner, ellwood, morton, sampson, haslem, andrews etc, we wud hav the best riders in the world for the next 20years! infact at the trials des nations we cud have british a, b, and c teams and come 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, anyway this post is prob the longest in the world but to end it trials needs * stops a 1 rule back ( and make every trial the same or no stop) * more money invested in trials riders *more training days for youths *revise the standard of sections, it dunt need to be rev splat, rev splat! or if your not in the top 10, rev splat, rev splat oh crash, broken spine, broken bike, arr **** no money, cant go to work, are **** it a.c.u will pay or ge me some help, oh no wait a min, there all in majorca drinking san migel we golden bronze tans! *and try un living up the out door sence like the indoors, try and make trials an intereting sport again, un have like 35-40 riders in a world round, and sure that if the sections were like they were bk in like 93-94-95 ppl like austermuhle, mcdonald, thorpe, baker, etc would have a go un do well, have a few cleans and enjoy it, but at the moment its *****! Thanks anyway, lets hope trials changes for the better before every1s ridind enduro, or in the pub, nicework.xxxxxxxxxxxx