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Welcome to the sport, this forum is not as active anymore but is a great resource backwards. Few pointers: Stretching and flexibility work before each ride will be your friend Work on the basics, as with any hobby - get good at those and you can start to elaborate and push other ways Practice, Practice, Practice - in the garden, in the street, local shops - anywhere that suits Group rides are awesome, find people who you can watch, or even offer advice as to body shape, set up adjustment etc. Videos like Dirty Tricks and Cunning Stunts were the one of the best resources back in the day Also, Trashzen site - https://trashzen.com/ where the late, great Julien Happich really broke down a lot of the physical mechanics Most importantly, just have fun - the beauty of trials is you can ride it in most places and even some of the smaller moves (rear wheel hopping more than 10 times in a row) will blow the minds of most average human beings. I am 40ish, been on and off since 14 and could never see my life without owning some form of trials bike, even to just show up my kids! Brett

I won the DBC weekly comp! Bought 20 tickets for £9.80 and now have to choose a ~£500 prize from the available selection: Currently thinking a nice set of Hope E4s in black and bronze with floating rotors for the MTB... Any thoughts?

I use a BMX combo saddle (eclat and KHE) with a sleeve (the tipical BMX seat tube diameter is 25.4mm). I like slim and padded one. Slim can hurt your legs on some bikes.    

A hacksaw and a plug would be more suitable than that weeny if you actually were bothered about saving weight and not sitting!! 🤣

Last time I rode trials was around 15-20 years ago, then I rode bmx for around 10 years then stopped about 8 years partly due to starting a family and partly due having an injured knee. I had a real itch to ride again though so tried getting back into bmx twice mainly because that's what my friends rode but to try cut a long story short, I had too much fear. I've always still had that itch to get back into trials, especially after Danny's 2009 came out so got back into it last February and loving it. The great thing about trials is you can practice it anywhere. I ride with a great bunch in Aberdeen, we are all fairly similar age, 40'ish, we all push each other but ride within our own limits. That would be the best advice I could give, ride within your limit but push it when you can.