ChrisTrials2012

I find Kenny to be way better, because he can actually ride kickers, and because he at least has fun on both his street and comp bikes. Gilles is just a skinny lad who is all about winning and being an angry pr*ck.

I'm gonna be working on my fitness and learning to go to crank, pedal or bash/strategic dabs, as well as pushing to get up bigger things clean.

Is that up near cratloe?

I honestly think the kilkee rocks during May or September on would be good. And when its off season no-one would bother us, no guards about the place at all.

Seems fairly detailed, I always thought you hit the front wheel first then tuck, as opposed to jump, tap ,tuck. I must try this. Any advice on up to fronts

I'm really struggling with tapping, and find it hard to get the rear wheel up to the edge. I want to know if anyone has any pointers on how to get a successful tapping method going, and what type of height should the wall I start on be. Also with an up to front, do you give a left stroke, then kick with the right to get the wheel over the edge, leave the ground and lean over the front to get contact with the top of the object and then wheel swap to finish.

What exactly is wrong with a good ISIS setup or the Echo press fit ISIS? All this talk of changing industry standards just annoys me. I'm new to trials but it seems most parts work fairly well when fitted properly. Who cares if we don't meet an international standard, when most of us have no intention of using parts already manufactured to them. We use parts based on a standard suited for trials, and changing them so one day we can say that some shitty MTB hub fits in our dropouts is ridiculous. As far as I'm concerned bolt through axles are the only thing that I would use, if we were to change.

How? Pretty moderate bar angle, not fully Carthy, not fully Ali.

Staaable

Yeah I must learn to get up to my current level on different, more difficult terrain. Is the red route more about high things then being good at technical things.

We need to sort a gathering, for at least once a year, of Irish trials riders. Maybe a comp or something like radfest, but on a very small scale

I swear its the bar angle, seems to have f**ked up his style no end, same with Gilles. Carthy is the only one who I reckon has managed to get away with it.

I don't know, time will tell. I just don't want to have too many regrets

A rolled forward bar tends to make you more upright on the back wheel.

Thanks for the advice, I will try what ye have recommended

I have plenty of time to improve my ability to get up obstacles, so I suppose the height of obstacles shouldn't be too much of my focus, but keeping loose and balanced,precise too.

Anything above a stock wheel, I cannot do, but wheel height I can do consistently, so that sounds good.

Main point, not going up things, but keeping my balance is the main thing, as well as learning to "shunt"

I'm going to do some comps in the UK during the summer, and want to know how high an obstacle would there be in the intermediate routes, and what sort of run up can I expect to these, and what would be the most useful move I could learn to get through the sections?

I had a dream that a brown coated grim reaper was sailing in the air towards me, when I was on my drive, and I was with my dog Bobbi even though she's dead, then I woke up. I went straight back to sleep, determined to kick the shit out of him, and I gave him a proper beating

Ah feck it, I'll leave it.

Thanks

I'm a criminal, a lucky criminal, Chinese shit.

What does it mean, that's what I thought it meant