Ben Swales

Brih-lee-unt. I love the Mhz frames. (If you ever want rid, let me know!) Why did you change the bars though? I would have stuck with the Azonics, they seem more 'appropriate' somehow.

St.-Francois Longchamp 20" by Sergio - A new gallery of photos from the World Cup round in Saint-Francois Longchamp, dedicated to the 20" finalists

St.-Francois Longchamp 26" by Sergio - A new gallery of photos from the World Cup round in Saint-Francois Longchamp, dedicated to the 26" finalists

Right... following a bit of a break from translating to to moving house AND job in the space of a week, we're more or less up to date in English now. I've got interviews with Gilles Coustellier and Bruno Arnold still to do, as well as the most recent St-François Longchamp by Sergio articles, but apart from that, everything's translated! I've rushed them through a bit in order to get caught up, so please excuse any typos I've missed (or better still, PM me so that I can correct them ). The New TMS Combo - new 24" street trials offering from the TMS stable Nicolas Luque in Montauban - Competition video of the French sidehop king Aurélien Narses in Cran Gevrier - Aurélien riding at the Cran Gev training ground World Cup Round 3 (1) - a presentation of the third round of the World Cup that took place in France this weekend World Cup Round 3 (2) - full results and media from the third round of the World Cup that took place in France this weekend St.-Francois Longchamp by VV (1) - a series of photo reports covering, among other stuff, the semi-finals of the third round of the World Cup that took place in France this weekend St.-Francois Longchamp by VV (2) - a series of photo reports covering, among other stuff, the finals of the third round of the World Cup that took place in France this weekend St.-Francois Longchamp by Sergio (1) - Sergio's usual bounty of photos from the World Cup in France St.-Francois Longchamp by Sergio (2) - Sergio's usual bounty of photos from the World Cup in France Carles Dias by El Rebostet - massive riding from the Spanish monster in Palma de Majorca TRA "Difference" - TRA's latest opus on the Caelifera Enjoy!

No, I've just been on holiday for a week, started a new job and am moving house this week, so haven't had time to do very many! I should be back on top of it by the end of next week

Here's the page it'll be on on iplayer: The Adventure Show. I just did a search for Fort William. It's not online yet, but it says "coming soon".

Darren's got normal sized hands, but for some reason (and I've argued with him about this on numerous occasions), he only holds the bars with half of his hand! I've never been able to ride his bikes because of how close to the end of the bar his brakes are... EDIT: Happy Birthday by the way Dazzler!

If you read the interview with Thibaut Veuillet in this article, he explains it all. Basically James has been riding a lot of BMX lately and finds the crossover easier on a 20" trials bike. Don't know how you get it in different colours, I just used the embed tags and it did it itself...

The video's now been embedded in the original post

Following the inaugural weekend of the TAZ indoor trials park in montreal (Article 1, Article 2), Montreal-based trials rider Nicolas Guy-Caron has put together this video of the street ride that took place on the Sunday after the mini-comp: Link to the article. Vimeo Video -> Original Video

unfortunately the trial was last Sunday...

I'm not, but my brother graduates from RAF Cranwell next Thursday, he's going to RAF Wittering for 3 months before starting his regiment training.

I don't get why there were so many set up hops...

I didn't realise that people were getting annoyed with the posts. I'd hate for such a great trials resource and magazine to become associated with spamming and the like, I just figured that people would want to know about the new articles as they were put online (I know I used to before I started doing the Tribal Zine translations). Anyway, my apologies, here's the new Tribal Zine thread, keep checking for updates Ben

Following the excellent photos taken by Heiko Lehmann, here's the first gallery of photos from Heubach by Sergio, featuring all of the Elite 20" & 26" finalists. Click on the photo:

Heiko Lehmann sent us about 50 photos from the World Cup round in Heubach, taken during the competition, warm-up and the high jump contest, which Benito Ros won by setting a new world record of 142cm! click on the photo:

Sounds like it was a pretty tense day all round! I'd imagine most of the top riders (except Kenny) were giving themselves stern talking to's afterwards! For full results, a write-up of the Elite quarters, semis and finals, check out the article on Tribal Zine .

Hegedus is his first name and Laszlo is his surname. I'm not sure if he and Stefan are brothers, but I've always assumed so. Adam Erdelyi is the current Hungarian 26" champion, who came third at Mikolsc, behind Hegedus and Stefan Laszlo, who may, or may not be brothers.

Following the superb photos of the Elite 20" competition in Mikolsc by Empix, here are the photos of the 26" competition, featuring Hegedus & Stefan Laszlo, Adam Erdelyi & Bogdan! There is also an interview with the current Hungarian champion Adam Erdelyi. Click on the photo:

The first round of the Hungarian Cup took place in the 11th of April in Miskolc and was won by top Koxx rider Hegedus László in both 20" and 26" categories! Check out the superb series of photos of the 20" competition by Empix here.

If you've been keeping up with Tribal Zine, you'll know that the TriAl' Cup is a new four round series set in France and Switzerland in which riders from France, Belgium and Monaco compete against each other. The first round was run alongside round 1 of the Rhône-Alpes cup, which took place in Chambéry on the 26th of April, and the 3rd round was on the 3rd of May in Ropraz, alongside round 1 of the Swiss Cup. Full write-ups of both rounds and a sweet collection of photos can be seen here.

Just had a look and it is only playing the first 24 seconds...don't know why that is. I'll try and upload it to trialstube when I get in from work

Photos of the prototype Ozonys Curve 20, which is currently being tested by Spanish rider Pablo Bravo. Click on the photo:

Junior World Champion Loris Braun and European Junior Vice-Champion Jérôme Chapuis put on a biketrials demo at the first Tramelan Indoor. Here’s a video by Sergio.