marg26

Cheers Mark, great info. Would rather avoid proprietary parts. But then at the same time I probably won't be needing to replace parts as much as with a regular geared MTB given single speed's robustness (so I hear) and it won't be mud churning through the Winter and I probably won't want to do my 8 mile round trip commute on it too often either. So still tempted by the Czar ION, it's lighter, disc brakes no extra, and I mostly wear shorts . I did wonder if the SLX brakes might not be quite right for trials, so glad to have asked that. It might come down to how much the cost increases with disc brakes are on the Flow. I haven't used non-disc brakes on a bike for years, can't imagine going back to not stopping in a hurry, but they must work well enough for trials right?

Thinking about getting a street trials bike, budget has led me to look at 24", namely Czar Ion, or Inspired Flow. The Ion has the edge at the moment as it comes with disc brakes. Can swap to some hydraulic SLX from my commute bike. Am I right in thinking there's not anything cheaper than these two bikes for riding street trials? Are there any other bikes I should look at at similar price point? For some reason I thought Canyon might do something but no - any other fairly big name brands do them?

Where's the promotion? This google search only shows me one website listing the event, and that's a dedicated trials website so pretty niche and targetted. There's YouTubers riding trials, who also ride mountain bikes etc, with tens of thousands of subscribers, so there's people interested in watching it, and a small proportion of those might even have a go. Why not push it to the attention of the mountain bike press?

Hi Senna, There's some videos here that should be helpful to you:

I can't do trials (yet?), don't have a trials bike (yet?), but here's a picture of me doing my best ever bunny hop. Just to say hello mostly.

Rigid 26" (old Trek 3900, frame & seat clamp only original component) 1x9 hardtail for commuting. Exotic carbon forks. RSP dropper. SLX brakes. Built up last year, Bird Zero TR 650b/27.5" hardtail. 130mm Yari. E13 TRS+ 150mm dropper. 1x11 SLX groupset. Tubeless. Fun. Lastly, 26" Canyon Nerve XC 120mm FS, UST rims, KS 125mm dropper.

Margate rider myself, regular cyclist, mountain biker not a trials rider, but trying to get into street type stuff on the MTB to make doorstep rides more interesting. Current goal is to gain bunny hop height. There's loads of stuff around the Turner centre, and Walpole bay clifftops of various heights which I'm slowly working my way up, either to hop onto or drop off of.