Ben Swales

Good work dude! Sling a few pics up here so we can see it in its finished state

Robin Morewood, Nigel Shepherd and I will be working on the obstacles. Robin's planned them out and we'll be building stuff beforehand to bring onto the square. We'll be setting up early in the morning, laying out the pre-built stuff and building some other stuff. The obstacles Robin's planned so far will be plenty of fun and will provide enough variety to keep you entertained on the day. If you get a bit bored of the setup, most of the stuff will be 'modular', so it can be moved around to create new setups. The majority of the obstacles will be made from pallets and sleepers, but Nigel's looking at sourcing some cable reels and other bits and bobs as well. We'll have plenty of chicken wire etc. available to add grip to the obstacles should it rain, so hopefully the weather shouldn't be an issue. If anyone fancies bobbing along early on the Sunday to give a hand with unloading and setting up, any help would be much appreciated, likewise at the end of the day to get things loaded and cleared off the square. But yeah, I think the stuff that's being provided should be plenty to keep everyone busy and that there should be enough space and obstacles so that it's not crowded. That's the plan anyway.

Congrats Dave!

Bit of a pain, but can you not get the email addresses from thy photo of your laptop screen you posted on FB? (Way to post everyone's email addresses online btw)

Make that Wednesday; two days in a row I've left it on my desk!

Sorry Dave! I dug out a load of old riding photos from way back when when I visited my parents over Christmas but haven't got round to sending anything yet. Slack. I'll do it tonight!

It's an open practice/demno type event being organised by Craig Scott's (not that one) girlfriend Laura. She's studying Event Management at Sheffield Hallam Uni and has to put on an event as part of her course. Since her boyfriend and a lot of her friends are riders, she wanted to run a trials event. As Craig said above, details are still being finalised, but Biketrial Federation are working with Laura on the organisation and some info should be announced fairly soon. Should be a pretty fun day!

The brakeless version looks so clean. It's amazing. Almost worth waiting around for F**KING AGES for you after work and having to find items that were right in front of you for you. It does. Very nicely indeed if last night was anything to go by.

And it's always f**king you, isn't it?

No words...

He finished in 16th. He had some problems with his back after tweaking it in the qualifiers though, and finished much higher in the World Cups he did (while still busting out one-handers and crank flips), so I'm pretty sure we can expect some good results from him in 2014

Guess that's a no then.... haha

Man, I absolutely f**king love Tarty Bikes. So good, in every respect. Nice one guys! Dave - I'm going home at Christmas and will dig out a couple of old photos from when I first started riding, so I'll be sending you my contribution in early January

Great idea. I'm in. PM coming soon!

Bike's looking good - glad to see you getting out in it again! It's in Millenium Park in Heeley Robin, on top of the hill where the white horse is on this map. There are a few other bits to play on dotted about. Map

I think I was pretty much the opposite. When I first watched it I watched it as 'just a riding video' and really enjoyed it (even if it was a little emotional). It was only a little while later and after a couple of watches that it really sank in that it was the last riding video we'd ever see of Martyn and it took on a much more poignant, significant feel. I watched it with Steph last night and nearly had a little cry about it. It's such a weird feeling, knowing that someone who had such a huge impact on my life just by doing what he did on a bike can no longer do that. That Privateer article was a really cool read. It's really humbling to see how well he's dealing with his situation - still such an inspiration!

That was flipping mega! Massive respect to Martyn for getting it done and to Danny and Chris for helping him do it. Almost got a bit choked up watching it though.

Cool! Looking forward to it! Cool that biketrials will be getting a showcase again! I think my seats are close enough that I should be able to hit him in the head with a hot dog without too much trouble.

Those balanced tees aren't actually available to buy I'm afraid...

To use what I believe is the correct terminology and accepted parlance, that was f**king sick, yo! Ali is insaaaane on a bike these days and gets better with every video. Top job on the edit as well Mark, really, really enjoyed the whole video (now get some sleep ). Awesome.

Nope, 72 is steeper than 71. The bigger the number, the steeper the angle; this is pretty basic stuff.

Yeah, releasing all of the scores and positions isn't something we're very comfortable doing as it could be potentially embarrassing or upsetting for some entrants (Ross McArthur might not want to know that he came last with just three points, for example ). However, if anyone particularly wants to know what their overall score was or where they came, they can email me at getcreativetwo@gmail.com and I'll send them their scores and any feedback from the judges on their video.

And now for the winners of the Novice category! In addition to the first, second and third place winners, we also have the prizes for Most Tech Line, Biggest Move, Best Video from Someone Riding for Under a Year and Most Creative 'Pure' Trials Line, as well as some smaller spot prizes for those videos, lines, moves, shots or edits that our judges feel deserve some recognition outside the standard prize categories. 1st Place First place goes to Aaron Browne for his video, filmed in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Aaron obviously put a lot of thought and effort into the riding, filming and editing of this video and the whole thing flows beautifully! Aaron walks away with a fantastic selection of prizes provided by our generous sponsors Inspired Bicycles, Heatsink Bikes, Atomlab, DMR Bikes and Lezyne: Inspired frame, Inspired Mug, Inspired t-shirt Heatsink (8mm Yellow/8mm Blue/or 10mm Reds) CNC Magura pads (winner's choice), chainstay protector, stickers Atomlab ltd. edition chrome Pimp bars DMR Vault Pedals (chrome) Lezyne Danny MacAskill signature pump and multitool 2nd Place Second place goes to Tamás Misik, whose energetic style and creative mix of street and more traditional trials was very popular with out judges: Tamás also takes home a great selection of prizes, provided by Inspired Bicycles, Heatsink Bikes, DMR Bikes and Lezyne: Inspired forks, Inspired Mug, Inspired t-shirt Heatsink (8mm Yellow/8mm Blue/or 10mm Reds) plastic-backed Magura pads (winner's choice), chainstay protector, stickers DMR Vault Pedals (Nickel) Lezyne Danny MacAskill signature pump and multitool 3rd Place Third place goes to Carl Hopps. The judges were all big fans of Carl's relaxed style and line choice and everyone loved the rail to rail bunnyhop line at the end of the video! Carl's prizes come courtesy of Inspired Bicycles, Heatsink Bikes and Lezyne: Inspired bars, Inspired Mug, Inspired t-shirt Heatsink (8mm Yellow/8mm Blue/or 10mm Reds) plastic-backed Magura pads (winner's choice), chainstay protector, stickers Lezyne Danny MacAskill signature pump and multitool Biggest Move Joachim Skjævestad's video was universally popular with our judges and only missed out on a spot in the top three by a few points. He was also a pretty universal choice for the prize for Biggest Move, although the judges all thought a different move in his video was worthy of the prize. So the prize for biggest move goes to Joachim, for pretty much every move in this video! Joachim gets an Inspired Kevlar Pivotal Saddle, Inspired Mug, Inspired Tshirt, Heatsink Tshirt and Chainstay Protector and a pair of Atomlab Ltd. Edition Chrome Pimp Bars. Most Tech Line Tamás Misik also takes the prize for Most Tech Line. Once again, although he received the most nominations for this prize from our judges, the line for which it was awarded varied for all of our judges - so many to choose from! Tamás gets an Inspired Kevlar Pivotal Saddle, Inspired Mug, Inspired Tshirt, Heatsink Tshirt and Chainstay Protector and a pair of DMR Vault Pedals in black. Most Creative 'Pure' Trials Line The prize for Most Creative 'Pure' Trials Line goes to Ricardo Meyer for the line at 01:48 in his video and he gets a Tribal Zine tshirt and a Heatsink Tshirt and Chainstay Protector. Best Video from Someone Riding for Under a Year Another pretty universal choice, the prize for Best Video from Someone Riding for Under a Year goes to Patryk Kucza, who gets an Inspired Mug and a Heatsink Tshirt and Chainstay Protector. Spot Prizes And finally, the spot prizes. These are prizes for those videos, lines, moves, shots or edits that our judges felt deserved some recognition outside the standard prize categories. These go to the following people, for various reasons - cool moves in their videos, a nice overall feel or concept to their videos, a marked improvement over last year's entry, 'commitment to the cause', etc. In no particular order: Mike Judson - Inspired Pivotal Kevlar Saddle Thorsten Banze - Inspired Lock-On Grips Ante Čobanov - Inspired four-bolt bashring Cal McGregor - Heatsink Tshirt & chainstay protector Frankie Exley-McTaggart - Phoenix Flight hoody (green) and stickers Jubal Vander Werff - Phoenix ltd. edition flexfit cap (Grey) and stickers Maxwell Duryea - Phoenix ltd. edition slouch beanie (burgundy) and stickers The Novice Category was very popular this year, with 32 entries from 19 different countries and aged from 14 to 37 years old! The scores were very close, with just a few points separating the majority of videos. There was also a big spread in the quality of entries, with some riders obviously putting a lot of thought and effort into their videos, both in terms of the riding and the production. This is exactly what we were hoping for and we're really pleased with the number of really great videos that have come out of this year's competition! Hopefully this will continue and people will think more about how they ride and how they film and edit their videos and we can see a lot more really good trials videos in the future! We've added all of the video entries to the competition's Vimeo and Youtube channels and there is a full list of all of the entries on the blog (here), so if you haven't seen them all, it should be pretty easy to get caught up. Novice video channels: https://vimeo.com/channels/getcreative2novice Sponsored video channels: https://vimeo.com/channels/getcreative2sponsored Finally, one more massive thank you to all of our sponsors for their support and for the fantastic prizes that they've provided for both categories! Inspired Bicycles (Official Page) | Lezyne | Five Ten | Dmr Bikes | Atomlab | Phoenix Riders Co | Heatsinkbikes.com