Up in the land where they say "Fit like?" and "Foo ye daen?" and it's always either snowing or raining, there's a young trials rider who got some rather good publicity in the local press this week.
Hey everone, I am new to this forum and wanted to say I'm glad I stumbled by it! I've read tons of information already, and learned alot in the last few days.. I just restored my 1978 yamaha ty 175 and wrote a thread about ithere.
Feel free to check it out and give your opinions in that thread I'm only 18, and this is my first bike to my name (handed down).. but I have the bug for rebuilding them now, and I absolutely love riding trials.. So I hope I can become a regular here at these forums eventually! Thanks for the great site guys! Be sure to check out my ty!!! thanks
I put up with all sorts of abuse on here from those guys out in Western Canada because of my avatar. So from Ontario, please tell me you are not a Sens fan...
Generations change but the thoughts are still the same, my wife still loves watching Steve Saunders, never could understand why she liked watching from the BOTTOM of a section
no way, think Dougie has one more in him. I think the biggest threat now though will come from Tony Bou or James Dabill, someone like that though I suppose we can still count Raga and Fuji in there
Have a few probs with mine as well but could find nothing at stripdown earlier in the year, I did some asking around as well. Like you the engine is now so strong that I don't want to alter this by stripping the whole engine again
This is just another way of sneaking an advantage, if the organisers and stewards don't clamp down on it folk will just keep getting away with it. In times past some riders would walk sections in the scottish, where no minders are allowed, and cunningly station their pals at certain bits to ensure nothing moved before their attempt or to move anything that did out of the way.
Everybody looks for an advantage, where the stakes are highest cheating seems to be part of the game!!
Raleigh bicycle made in the late 70's early 80's very chunky (read heavy) and could cope with me and the stupid things I used to do without an engine. Pre the first BMX bikes but I just broke the BMX anyway, 6 if I remember rightly. You Youngsters don't know what you missed!!!
Whip off the naff handle bars, the saddle and all the other pointless bits, stick on an old pair of Fathers renthals a proper saddle and bobs your uncle. Bunny hops, endos riding sideways up steps, we were doing that stuff 25years ago, never mind now...... see some notes below and hopefully the pic will work as well
from nostalgia.com
Launched in 1976, the Grifter became the ultimate 80s bike - chunky and funky with hand-twist gears . . . This was BMX before BMX. You even got blisters on the insides of your hands (from doing wheelies you understand!)
And with a deft fold of the rear mud flap you had a realistic moto-cross noise - even if it did leave a U shaped melted hole on your flap (oo-er missus).
Have to agree, thats superb. My old Grifter could never do that!!
It also triggers my initial thoughts, is this how we want to see trials develop, because were nearly there already. Look at the indoor and some of the rounds this year. Personally I think we've gone too far and we need to get back to no stop. From the pics we've seen of Duluth earlier this year, pitch some of the natural stuff there on a no stop, that would be a test.
The reality of what we see now means that we might be able to hold a WTC trial in a shopping centre car park in a year or two, hopping up and over the barriers, walkways and overpasses. I don't fancy that much.
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Thought missing or more correctly not making a valid attempt at a section was 50 marks lost but missing a whole group was exclusion