bluerocketboy

This is all gold guys! Thanks for the tips ooo, and taking the girl out for a ride somewhere that I can trial would be excellent :-)

Ha ha that's exactly the reason I've taken up trials, I have two young girls and trail riding takes up too much of the day! Which inspired do you have, I'm considering the flow for the future it looks really fun. Sounds like your having some good progress to me, I'm also hoping the skills will transfer to my normal biking too!

That last video was really helpful, can't wait until I can hop straight up onto something on the back wheel. Out of interest how long have u been riding trials?

That sounds like a plan with the pallets, hopefully without sounding too dense 'how do you use the pallets to practice rear wheel hops?' Just getting a few stuck and rounded bolts removed from my bike and should be back out there tomorrow night, can't wait

That's really useful, I think my back hops need work as at the moment I can only get about 5. Sadly I probably couldn't be further from Manchester, I'm on the Isle of Wight, if u ever come down on holiday I'd be keen for some practice though!

Great fun session last night, getting pedal ups onto about a ten inch ledge and a few sketchy rear wheel hops to drop back down. Feels like I'm not committing tothe rear wheel enough as I'm often dropping the front. It's even more fun than I hoped though :-) The tips were great thanks

That's awesome thanks guys, loads to be getting on with :-) looking forward to my wrists hurting less too!

Thanks for the info, when hopping onto stuff do u use the pedal stroke to get the front high? Then hop, but in one movement?

Hi, 32 and decided to give trials a try, just picked up an onza (perhaps pro, it's been sprayed) seems pretty tidy and all works. Couple of questions if that's cool, should the levers sit quite far inboard so the don't squash my fingers ( bite point seems OK) and also how tight shouldn't chain be? It's come pretty tight and the cranks spin when I push the bike along. Also is it a bit difficult to pull up the front wheel to manual on a mod at first? It seems harder than on my dj bike. Seems like a great forum, can't wait to get out riding. Thanks, Ben