James_Porter

im heading up to liverpool tomorrow... then phil, matt awkward and myself are heading up friday... POW WOW... spose i should pack.

i have been thinking about this a lot lately and was watching the road racing in spain on euro sport yesturday and it made me think. trails isnt big because no one has put money into it basically... take the british rounds for example... they are nothing special are they to be honest? considering the people the take part in them are mostly the best the country has... yet you get about 2 spectators (slight exageration) but it really is no where near the numbers of dh/xc. i also think that the problem lies in there are no dominante teams wearing separating jerseys. if you look at dh/xc/road, they all have teams, these different teams all wear the team jerseys/kits... this invites companies to the sport cause they could have their name plastered all over the kit and get noticed... true there may not be enough good riders and companies to do something like this... the main teams would be...... koxx monty they are the MAIN big companies in the comp scene... monty are the only company with a noticed jersey really... yes koxx have that jersey but not even hermance/benito wear it nowa days... they wear a t with "try all"/"koxx" on it... no bright colours, striking designs though. what we need are defined teams. we have smaller uk teams... the onza team, slinger/butler wore that axe jersey and that made them stand out and got them noticed as people knew who it was even if they didnt see the face... we got the tartybikes team, stan mainly being the only one in the comp scene... but still, could have a jersey with a nice design. selectbikes team... goddard, wheeler, burton... big names in the comp and street scene... ashton bikes team... gav, ali, ashton and myself... revelle team... doney sort of got a strip. koxx uk team... waynio, savage *world team i know but massive in uk*, hyland * same as ben*, duncan shaw (minds gone blank, thats right int it?)........................... waynio wears the koxx jersey quite often, which is awesome if you ask me, summat you would want froma team rider. these are the only teams i can think of anyways which have riders in the comp scene... if i have forgotten some please say... now, its not to many... 5!!!!!! but if you think, there are on average 3 riders in each team. if you were at a comp, thats deffo going to get noticed if all the riders are going around in the brightly designed team jerseys... surely this is going to bring more sponsors into the sport??? which means more money... inturn means more spectators... in theory means trials gets more noticed. that is just one way of getting it noticed a bit more, but i think i would deffo do the sport some good... i just thought it was worth bringing up, maybe for tarty/select to look into. i know there were talks at ashton about it... hawzie, ashton and myself have had a few convos about it... hawzie is dead on it and thinks team kits are what it needs... its in all other major cycling... and its helping them getting noticed for sure. obviously there is more we could do to get it noticed aswell... better comps for starters, we need more red bull bike battles... comps with man made sections which involve jaw dropping moves (jaw dropping to the non trials rider) but maybe have the comp/sections somewhere where more people are going to notice it more than a wood 30miles down back roads? i know insurance would be a problem there... but maybe the entry fee would have to go up??? an entry fee for dh/road is ALOT more than £20... would be worth it anyways? more things like the onza cycle show thing... a comp in the middle of bristol/london/liverpool, somewhere, anywhere... where the worlds best riders get to ride on invite only... obviously cost shit loads to do... but think of the publicity... surley you could get bbc on it?????????????????????????? i dunno about that though... dont know much about it... but if you got people like akrigg, beleay, hermance, benito, ashton riding some crazy sections in the middle of london, doing things people didnt think were possible on a bike. fair enough there is koxx days etc BUT its again in the middle of no where... london, think how many people are there... and people WILL watch, they allways do. i just think there has got to be summat trials riders and companies can do, and start doing it now????? ashton/chopper/animal are doing a good job, doing them demos... but i dont see anyone else doing it???? interested to see other poeple views on this... i think the team kit thing is where it needs to start.

i think we all know, or SHOULD know that matt staples is god of this. took me about 3-4 weeks to get used the ashton completely, mainly tapping.

was talking to the marts about that a while ago... hawzie is really good at artistic shizwack and that... did art at college or summat. he said that feebal was just summat they did as a bit of fun... apparently they got a few emails from parents asking why they couldnt get hold of the stuff... but they just didnt get the time to make the stuff. he said he would like to do summat with it again... but you know, we can hope.

i have been stretching and that trying to get it all together, its the muscles in my back rather than the spine...me coxis isnt feeling any better though really... feels like i have been shafted by a large black man to be honest, cause you know i can relate the pain to that. dang nab it.

the trialnoir site had been redone if anyones interested.

really like that, i dont like the colour though:( im not keen on the stickers either, iolo sort it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! really nice frame though, impressed

i really hope my back/tailbone (coxis) or what ever that word is spelt like, gets better by this w/e

i hawzie got f**ked over... hes working for fishers now in london, he was telling me what it was he was doing there but i forgot, marketing or summat. hes riding a ashton bike now and is helping ashton with decisions for the team etc...

no... i got sent one of the very first levers wayyyyy back to test... and it isnt spongy like the rb at all.

went out last night... dancing with this girl, switched numbers and that... shes been texting me all day and stuff, but im not really interested in her... and she just said, "looks like im going to have to make the first move" and i said, "ohh, see how it goes"... dont think she was happy with that...

stiff can be basterds though... so watch that:p

shit the bed

£50-£60 for just the frame

i swapped a load of trials bits for a mint metal bikes bmx... might go pick it up this afternoon... cant wait to ride summat a bit different... wanted a bmx for so long.

your amazing

pow POW POW... im 17 you tit fred just went and got my provisional licence forms and shit... not a lot to do really, fell off forking bad yesturday... worst bail i have ever had and it has done in my back/ribs/tailbone so cant ride... mates are at college till later... think im gunna go for a walk and try and walk off this shitty pain so im allright for tomorrow... few of us are going swimming in the morning then riding in afternoon... if you are interested in coming give me a pm... or get to swindon for 11 and give me a ring. thanks everyone:)

myself and about 3 other swindoners

ye dave knows his shit... he rode infront of kenny beleay in france and made kenny feel SO SMALL:p was a big back wheel though... kenny just had to walk away *seriously*

nick sent me it last night... i forking love that moto trials.

thanks for that... you didnt come across as a tit at all.

our bikes were fine...

or "i turned gay"

yes i am complaining about £70 when my bank account barely has a 3 figure number in it.

maggie marta