Why Do You Ride Trials?

[Simpson]

Any more options welcombe... was just curious why we all ended up riding such a wierd sport hahaha

You may select more than 1 option

Can add questions on request to a certain extent

Edited December 18, 2007 by Simpsonman =)

[Tommy d]

+ cos I love having some good exercise (without resorting to something boring like a gym)

+ it's just so much fun and I am addicted

Edited December 18, 2007 by Tommy d

[manuel]

I ticked alot of boxes but the one that stands out is "I ride as a release from everything"

[spode@thinkbikes]

Good topic.

[Balman]

i ride as its something to do in my spare time i enjoy spending time with friends and keeping fit and trying out new lines its all around fun i duno how i got into it really seeing a few people about and watching moto trials oh and the bike show did it for me haha met ot pi and martin ashton and got my self a bike from there been acting like a gay on it ever scince

[Scotty Evil1]

I clicked nearly every box haha.

But i ride trials because i always have, its not just a sport/ hobby to me, it is my life!

Scott

( so far, only person to click "for the comp scene" haha

[ben_travis]

I enjoy riding my bike, i cant tick any of those boxes because not one stand out. I have gone through stages of enjoying it, then not enjoying it, then back again. ive met some reet good folk through riding my bike, and as much as the bickering on here PISSES me off, i have one or two of my best mates through trials.

It will be a long time till i give up.

Anyone who ticks that box - For sponsorship - needs to get over themselves. Sorry, yes im sponsored, but im my opinion its for reasons other than my riding, i have never proclaimed to be the best rider out there, far from it, i believe that there are other reasons people have sponsored me.

Trials isnt big enough for ego's.

Thats my moan and appreciation of a decent topic for once

[El Cristoff]

I ride for the friends and the people

I ride for the rush and the thrills

I just love anything extreeme

I ride trials cos' its a lil bit different

I ride as a release from everything

I love time with my bike an MP3

I ride trials for the challenge + lines

For the Fitness / health reasons =D

[Ryan.]

number 1 for me is mates...

i wouldn't have met any of the people i know today if it wasn't for trials..

it's awesome to turn up to a massive group ride and just be able to chill and have a laugh wih people you don't see so often

some of my best mates if met through the sport.

[Brian Bleech]

I ticked alot of boxes but the one that stands out is "I ride as a release from everything"

Me too

I also enjoy the challenge and hanging out with some cool people, plus it keeps me reasonably fit and healthy too.

[T.McMillan]

fun fitness friends

[TrashZen]

I don't ride for the friends and the people, but true that my best mates are trials riders and the majority of trials riders I have met are really sound people which is a bonus for a sport.

I ride for the rush and the thrills, the discovery, its a lil bit different and it's an addictive and non-boring way to stay fit.

Edited December 18, 2007 by TrashZen

[Ben John-Hynes]

iride for the sense of achievement i get!!

the people i've met along the way have also been amazing!

Ben

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[ConnorPowell]

I Ride because i like it and i want to Yet its not on the list

[BenLeacock™]

fun fitness friends

exactly ! Trials isnt as big as football, downhill and other sports. Its something unique and looks extremly good when perfected

[boon racoon]

Basically, for the chicks

[psycholist]

I ride trials because it pleases me to ride trials. It's a pastime I took up without knowing anyone else did it when I bought a MTB and started trying to ride it around a building site near my house. A few years later (Probably 1999ish) I discovered that trials as a sport existed. Everyone I know locally to me who does trials type stuff is doing it because they saw me doing it but none are as obsessed as far as I can tell based on them having a lot more nerve than I do and still not making the same lines...

...and I'm still crap, but that's never been the point - hopping a bike around on stuff for some reason pretty much exactly fits the gap in my brain where pastimes are supposed to go (Combined with XC touring for some reason ). If trials as a sport didn't exist at all I'd still be doing it, just the bikes I'd have would be a lot less suitable for the job .

[MadManMike]

When I have a bad time (ie the last 5 months) I love to go out and get away from it all.

Whack on some decent music and just cruise about.

Not trials though, just cruising the streets on the DMR, jumping stuff and doing spinny stuff

[Bionic Balls]

Basically, for the chicks

amen to that....

ride for that slightly confused look people give you

[Josh PWND]

well the main reason of me riding trials is that all the other types of mountainbiking all you need is balls and thats easy to get they come standard if youre a lad

and trials just contains everything balance, wieght transfer and stuff like + balls.

[psycholist]

I'd say that balls as a rider is the only thing you can't develop - if you haven't to balls to risk stuff there's not a lot you can do to magically develop them. Saying that it makes it more impressive that a complete coward like me can ride the lines I do through spending so much time practicing that the hit it and hope element is pretty much gone...

This low risk technique does mean much slower progress than somebody with the balls to try big stuff (As I have seen with the progression speed almost everyone I've got in to trials has made compared with my own progress) but also a lot less hospital time ...

[Ross McArthur]

I've made my votes.

I also love the look of most trials bikes so even if I did'nt ride trials id still probably own one, or two.

[Simpson]

I ride to avoid drugs and the streets - Massive problem in my area so deffo helps keep focused

I ride for the friends and the people - Met the most amazing people genrally, last saturday with Bessel an Maher, like 2 of my best mates now.....

I ride as a release from everything - Deffo the main one... instead of hitting someone or getting too stressed just bust round the local industial on the bike

I love time with my bike an MP3 - As the above, bit of hip hop, or one of Mikes Mixes clears the system right out

I ride trials for the challenge + lines - Im not a line man but enjoy doing something someone else hasnt

For the Fitness / health reasons =D - get chubby ride more.... eassssy

[Tommy d]

Also, cos I need some bike in my life and the crashes from trials tend not to be as bad as bmx crashes...

[eskimo]

Theres something about it that isn't quite the same as riding others bikes like the bmx. But same goes for that. Plus the general fun of it.