Funface Posted July 20, 2012 Report Share Posted July 20, 2012 http://i1048.photobu...ics/Trials2.jpg Me on my 1996 23" Gt Zaskar le. The photo was taken in 1998 and the wall was about 28" high lol. I could also side hop it and probley my highest was 33" Iv been back out riding trials soo I will post some nice ones soon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEON Posted July 21, 2012 Report Share Posted July 21, 2012 I have a similar pic somewhere on my 1998 Kona Cindercone, but that was a good 6" smaller than your zaskar lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Swales Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 (edited) Nice. I love seeing all these old school pictures - good times! EDIT: I've probably posted this one before, but thought I'd add it in here. Taken in about 1997/1998 if I remember rightly. That's a 22" seat tube by the way, but I couldn't backwheel it up a wall higher than about 12". Didn't make that breakthrough til I upgraded to a 14" GT Tequesta. EDIT 2: If you look closely, you'll also see that I wasn't using my brakes, way before it was fashionable. Edited July 23, 2012 by Ben Swales 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusevelt Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 Impressive going on a big steed. Makes me think of a pic i saw in an old MBUK magazine of a rider sidehopping over a tennis court net on a full sus Kona DH bike. Think it was a poster/calander giveway of riders photos on one side and a calander on the other side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funface Posted July 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 Thanks for the replies. Good times indeed Ben and nice old school pic. MBUK was my bible back then. The thing is that the GT was a very light frame at the time about 3.2lb for 17" with long stem and riser bars so it was just about getting your arse behind the seat to get it up the big stuff. If you got some old school pics post them so we can have a good reminise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 It's a cool pic and all, and gets me reminiscing about doing similar, and I've tried to put this comment off because it's probably a bit unfair. BUT it definitely doesn't look like that first picture resulted in anything other than a fail.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Dark Posted July 23, 2012 Report Share Posted July 23, 2012 Cant see any pictures of me riding... but this is my first bike I thought was a trials bike haha Earliest picture of me riding I could find... parallel rolling gap 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F.N.G Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Taken in about 1997/1998 if I remember rightly. That's when I was born! Sometimes I wish I was born earlier so I could ride trials with all the oldskool crew! haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann2707 Posted July 24, 2012 Report Share Posted July 24, 2012 Pic Eh, if this is 97/98 how old would you be here? You look the same !! in a good way of course heheh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Swales Posted July 25, 2012 Report Share Posted July 25, 2012 I would have been 14 or 15. I can't remember exactly when it was taken though. 'Interesting' fact: that photo was taken in the garden of a guy called William Swallow. Unfortunate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funface Posted July 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Nice pic Alex excellent style @ JD yer it does look like it was a fail probley about 2 or 3" to low but the pic was taken soo long ago I cant remember. Unfortunately thats the only pic of me back wheeling the GT I could make it though .. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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