Token Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Trials-Forum Video -> Full View • Download • Upload I could be quite wrong here, so bare with me. On that video at 0:21 and 1:22, it looks like he's hopping from one grave to another.Am I wrong? If he is, then is it common trials etiquette to ride on graves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 As far as I know, he is riding on graves, which I find highly disrespectful. I myself have ridden on the walls around a memorial, but I have never ridden on a grave, because I think it's out of line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoyoyo Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Nah i wouldn't say it's common, would never catch me near a grave on a bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun H Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 There's some really good lines at Temple row on the graves. Bloody dead people, why can't they be less... dead.I'd never do it, if I saw someone riding on a family member's grave I would probably go and give them a new orifice in their face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B.E.A.U Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 If amyome ever rode over my granads grave i swear he would be killed not by me but my dad would have him done over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Cox Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 no f**king respect some people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clownbike Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Personally I do not ride on graves. But sometimes i guess you have to ask yourself, "well they are dead and centries old maybe a hop on them isn't too bad as nobody visits them, they have clearly been forgotten."I personally don't think like that but i knew a lad who did and i understood his point. But i believe they should rest in PEACE.Another lad i know who is into Satan and crap jumped on graves on a night out - i didn't think too much of it and neither did the general public, so as a guess majority of people don't do it/agree with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James-M Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) Nah, I would feel bad doing it. I felt bad enough when I was riding through a cemetary one night and plapped straight in to one, flew right over the handlebars... Edited March 5, 2008 by James-M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 That's pretty disgusting!We've ridden the walls near a wall memorial, but not on the actual statue thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spode@thinkbikes Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 I often look at graveyards and think "wow, look at the lines", but you have to draw the line somewhere. It's bad enough that what we do is on public property.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Duck Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Riding on graves = very not cool.Apart from peoples' personal feelings about the matter, its illegal too. Also would give this sort of riding a bad name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 If any member of the public saw you doing that, they and all their friends would automatically hate all trials riders with a passion.Riding like that will not help boost our sports popularity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 In Reading a long time back, a group of us were riding at the Hexagon, just round the corner from a grave yard, as we rode through the grave yard we were talking about how there were such good lines there.Then someone decided it would be a good idea to drop out of a tree... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 When i was younger the churchyard used to be a bit of a hangout after skool and me being me always had my bike and i used to ride in there,after alot of growing up i choose not to now. i may ride external walls but no more.I also choose not to ride benches that have the little plaques on them, just out of respect. No plaque = rideable though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 i've rode walls near a graveyard, and grass on the other side of the walls, but i'd never ride on the grass if i could see someone was buried there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clownbike Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 When i was younger the churchyard used to be a bit of a hangout after skool and me being me always had my bike and i used to ride in there,after alot of growing up i choose not to now. i may ride external walls but no more.I also choose not to ride benches that have the little plaques on them, just out of respect. No plaque = rideable though.Amen brother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Pearson Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 In all brutal honesty I can't see that much of a problem. Human beings disrespect the graves and in fact the homes of almost all other species on the planet on a daily basis. We cultivate and destroy eco systems which create the graves of hundereds of animal's and we do it in the name of progression, industry and the human race. You want to take it further? For about the last 35 years we've been bombing the hell out of the middle east killing literally millions of people; mass graves there are commmon place for those who have been killed in allied forces airstrikes, how often do you think those get desecrated?But I guess that's PC for you.Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Booth Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 I would'nt do it, as I would'nt like people riding on my grandads/gandma's/uncles graves. It's kinda not right... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1a2bcio8 Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) I wouldn't have a problem if somebody rode over my dad's grave. As far as my ideas are concerned, it makes little difference - he's already dead and it's not going to harm him. Being bothered about such things is ultimately a choice, although I understand that's more easily said that done and people tend to be quite sensitive about objects that they load with the memory of a loved dead person. I've certainly ridden on the wall of a graveyard, perhaps even on something similar to this chap, although I can't be sure. If I did it and no harm came to anyone, did it really matter to anyone? Well, no.Out of consideration of other people I probably wouldn't do that these days though, regardless of how I perceive pointlessness in people loading emotional meaning into representative objects of dead people. I'm pretty sure this is a cultural relativistic situation as well, which to me, makes the act of being "disrespectful" even less meaningful. What do we gain by being bothered about the stone of a person whom we want to remember - what difference does it make to our situation regarding being happy? Edited March 5, 2008 by rowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'm hungry Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) what a disrespectful cu.nt!how can you do that?! if i caught anybody even thinking about riding on any of my family's graves i would not be very happy!!!the twat deserves that handlebar through his stomach! Edited March 5, 2008 by I'm hungry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Pearson Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 what a disrespectful cu.nt!how can you do that?! if i caught anybody even thinking about riding on any of my family's graves i would not be very happy!!!the twat deserves that handlebar through his stomach!Regardless of what you think, when you're trying to make a point about respect, it often doesn't give your argument much weight when you've loaded your response with obscenities, so lets just tone down the agreesive language shall we?Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peperami Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 Riding on graves is bad, mmkay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikeriding Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) I don't understand why people seem so angry?they look quite old, (hundreds of years probably, so its highly unlikley to upset anyone) and its not like people don't walk all over graves in cathedrals and such, so long as no damage is caused. Edited March 5, 2008 by jebend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1a2bcio8 Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 (edited) In a sense, you're always walking over somebodies grave.It's just some of them happen to be endowed with an object and have occurred more recently. Perhaps we should move to space to avoid disrespecting the dead that are underneath us.All of you who are concerned about that chap in the video, do you consider that perhaps you have a choice, not to find respect/disrespect with somebody riding over a grave? In fact, could you elaborate for me what you mean by respect and disrespect, especially within this context? Edited March 5, 2008 by rowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawny Baby Posted March 5, 2008 Report Share Posted March 5, 2008 No disrespect to the guy riding (not that he had much respect) but the lines were not even impressive.If it were the most amazing line ever, something seriously impressive and original, then perhaps those of us with less regard for others may consider such a line.but for a few wank 4 ft gaps, its just wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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