Trials On Bbc News

[ibs_m]

Awesome. Thats brought back so many trials memories, I wish trials seemed as fun as it did back in the day!

back when trials was cool .....

Made me feel like a kid again - I miss the old days - riding bikes was so easy then - now its all about going super duper high or fast - back then was awesome - when being able to backhop was a trick in itself!

Thanks for posting again - really nice vid!

[notknown]

people could relate to it a lot more back then because the bikes just looked like normal mountain bikes. the problem nowadays is people see something so specialist, the bikes are totally different to what a normal mountainbike looks like, so they tend to dissmiss it because they cant relate to it so much. i havent put accross what im trying to say so well, but i know what i mean.

the other problems are, how many people actually ride their bikes forward? pedaling up a step with an interesting run up.

also

how many people go practise natural now, go into a wood and have some run with a rolling line or see some rocks that a normal mtb'er wouldnt be able to roll over. it seems to me that people are turning a blind eye to natural and thats what makes our sport. its a bike at the end of the day... not a pogo stick.

ps, video was rad, brings back many awesome early memories.

[monkeyseemonkeydo]

how many people go practise natural now, go into a wood and have some run with a rolling line or see some rocks that a normal mtb'er wouldnt be able to roll over. it seems to me that people are turning a blind eye to natural and thats what makes our sport. its a bike at the end of the day... not a pogo stick.

Very true James. The Hampshire series seems to be slowly dying a death because there are very few people who can be 'bothered' to ride natural. All the kids think of trials these days is sidehopping a wall. There'll always be a place for street in trials but it seems that the majority of younger riders don't even see a connection with natural riding and what the perceive trials to be. It's a real shame.

[Nick Manning]

people could relate to it a lot more back then because the bikes just looked like normal mountain bikes. the problem nowadays is people see something so specialist, the bikes are totally different to what a normal mountainbike looks like, so they tend to dissmiss it because they cant relate to it so much. i havent put accross what im trying to say so well, but i know what i mean.

the other problems are, how many people actually ride their bikes forward? pedaling up a step with an interesting run up.

also

how many people go practise natural now, go into a wood and have some run with a rolling line or see some rocks that a normal mtb'er wouldnt be able to roll over. it seems to me that people are turning a blind eye to natural and thats what makes our sport. its a bike at the end of the day... not a pogo stick.

ps, video was rad, brings back many awesome early memories.

Very true James. The Hampshire series seems to be slowly dying a death because there are very few people who can be 'bothered' to ride natural. All the kids think of trials these days is sidehopping a wall. There'll always be a place for street in trials but it seems that the majority of younger riders don't even see a connection with natural riding and what the perceive trials to be. It's a real shame.

Totally agree!!

For alot of rider's we learnt the sport of bike trials on small xc frames, growing up with the likes of Ashton, Haywes and Hans Ray as role models.

Now a days, everyone learns a bike completely designed for the sport with everyone doing the same thing and in all fairness there aren't as many rider's pushing the sport like they did. I've only properly got involved with comps this year, partially due to the lack of information about them and partly due to lack of transport. But I know that it's not just Hampshir Bike Trial that are lacking in members, Essex Bike Trial has lost alot of member's, and from what I'm aware the SouthWest Series is no more (unsure of reasons). But the competition scene is lacking in member's. There's plenty pushing the sport at a National and World level, but there's not enough interest being made to influence new members into the sport and into comps.

When I'm at demo's I quite often get parents asking me about how to get involved in the sport, or there child has a trials bike and wants to know if there are any clubs. I give them as much information as I can about local clubs, (depending where in the country I am). But even then, getting involved with a club doesn't help hugely, as they go straight into competing.

Hampshire Bike Trial is holding a play day on the 14th September, and this is an ideal chance for new rider's to come along and play and get any help with improving. Terry normally holds an event once a year particularly for beginner rider's with a few of the expert riders there to help them learn new skills and improve their riding.

I'm un aware of other clubs doing this, but would be useful to know.

At the end of our demo's quite often we'll have teaching sessions. Where we'll have a few children each and we'll try and teach to balance, and maybe ride over a low obstacle. They tend to really enjoy this. But there isn't really much else going on that new rider's can attend to learn new skills and improve their ability.

[Mikee]

Hey people just found this on TT and thought it was worth posting a topic about also i am very curious as to when it was shown on TV

at the end of the credits it say MCMXCIX which is 1999

Edited September 2, 2008 by mikee999