alistair14 Posted September 12, 2012 Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 (edited) Right ..it's late and this popped into my mind ..I'm a sucker for sticking at one thing, and all i've ever really done in trials is TGS ..with a tiny bit of park/street but 99% TGS .. Do you lot like to switch is up a lot? is best best too and why ? Loads of questions to put but go crazy with the answers!! Edited September 12, 2012 by alistair14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted September 12, 2012 Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 TGS but spins are fun. When it's a big obstacle I think of as many ways to get up it as possible. Up to front, sidehop, sidehop from two wheels to two, sidehope from two wheels to rear, sidehop to rear, brakeless sidehop, frenchie, bunnyhop brakeless, bunnyhop to rear, rolling up to front. everthang. But when it's a small wall I get up and down it as creatively as possible, including over the top spinning, trying to get up and down in one line with no pedalling in between, all kinds of stuff like that, just variate to make it fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dngr2self Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 I just ride trials. I don't get why people are bothered about what style they ride. If it looks fun go for it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aener Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 I like the idea of being fully committed to something, but I enjoy riding all sorts of ways (most of them, I'm rubbish at, but they're still fun ) so I think to myself that the one thing I'm committed to is having fun on my bike If you exclusively ride one type of thing, and recently made a thread about being bored of riding, I think you've found your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williams Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 Nah, I'm basically a TGS whore, but my riding still depends on which kind of day it is. Not like monday street, tuesday TGS, I mean when I have my good days I only do TGS, but when I have my less good days I mix some street in too. Just do what you enjoy basically:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew62 Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 Yeah I get a confused by the type of 'style' thing..whilst I suppose on my tiny, short little bike that I manual and bunny hop everywhere it would appear i'm a street rider if I come across and object I want to mess around on - i'll do so with whatever method works. I do tend to do nothing static but an up to back is an up to back and so on.... so it's just trials. Same as when I'm out on my Five. With the build I've got it would be classed as an All Mountain bike, but i'll ride any trail on offer. I've ridden a load of mountains in Scotland which vary from pootles along big pretty hills to black DH runs and sometimes a bit of street. To me it's just a mountain bike and I'm not fussed whether what i'm doing is Enduro, XC, All-Mountain, Trail, DH etc... Whilst styles do certainly exist I think it's silly to get bogged down with them - surely everyone ends up just riding how they want and what they enjoy? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andeee Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 After watching TRA's video back to 2012 this morning. His riding on the hex seems to show he can do every style of riding on a bike that is particularly suited for street styled riding yet seeing him do wheel swaps is quite impressive on such a short wheelbase bike. Same when he was riding his echo last year he managed to add a flow style to that type of bike. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamilyBiker Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 if you feel good at what youre doing it doesnt even matter if its got a name or what you name it.go riding dude!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisTrials2012 Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 I think your style has to do with how long you've been riding. I'm all about the TGS, but thats because I'm riding about a year and a half. If I had been riding five years, I might feel differently about it, because I'd have had enough of TGS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 (edited) Im the same Ali. Love TGS, but Ive ridden it for almost 3 years now. I can feel myself progressing, and going bigger and bigger, but Im at that stage of progression which is achingly slow. Going to slog it out and push myself to get my "next big thing". Riding the same areas doesnt help me much either.... I try ride natural as and when I can, and I enjoy it, but its the traveling needed to get there that puts me off. Try ride different locations? Im going to try to, and enjoy riding some new places! Edited September 13, 2012 by Echo Lite 09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew62 Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 That's assuming that TGS is the obvious starting point in to trials though..... it's not however. Granted I started before there was such a thing as TGS, but when I started my friends and I just rode anything. When we'd go out it'd be a few BMXers, a few what would now be called street-trials riders, some guys on hard tail MTBs and one guy on a mod so everyone inspired and riffed off each other. In theory i've pretty much always rode the same sort of way, whether it was when I started on a 15" frame, to the first ever T-rex, through a Koxx to a couple of Inspireds..... of course the bike influences you but you do tend to have a general approach. Look at MacAskill - he still rode in a similar way in his Echo and Pashley years.... I think you often develop rather than do something for a specific time period then change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clerictgm Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 (edited) NO! I started TGS but I hated it so much that I was ready to drop riding. But I realized that I'm doing something wrong and started to do only what I enjoy at the moment plus varied moves a lot. And now it feels great with a huge load of motivation. Edited September 13, 2012 by clerictgm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostrider88 Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 NO! I started TGS but I hated it so much that I was ready to drop riding. But I realized that I'm doing something wrong and started to do only what I enjoy at the moment plus varied moves a lot. And now it feels great with a huge load of motivation. I don´t understand how can someone do something that he hates by a choice?But good for you you found something better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss-Higgy Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 (edited) I like the idea of being fully committed to something, but I enjoy riding all sorts of ways (most of them, I'm rubbish at, but they're still fun ) so I think to myself that the one thing I'm committed to is having fun on my bike If you exclusively ride one type of thing, and recently made a thread about being bored of riding, I think you've found your problem. Totally with this! I think it was Luke Rainbird who commented on a video "Yay for having fun on bikes!". And it's stuck with me for some reason! It's what its all about, i didn't pick up a bike thinking i want to get up this wall! I started trials because it looked fun! And i don't just ride trials between me and my other half we have 8 bike's that are all for different types of riding, street trials, comp style, park bike, cruise bike, go fast bikes, and all round FR MTB's. We may be out on the Xc bike's spot a cool rock and see what we can do with it, i mean i learnt the basics of trials on the longest jump bike it the world, so i don't think anything is impossible. Hence i have a 24 with peg's i love the idea that one day I'll find an upto back on a wall or ledge then hopping to a grind or something. Although i think i am super weird because of my short attention span, i can't stay at the same spot for any longer than 30mins or i just want to go to sleep or not ride. Might also be because Blackpool has alot to ride, and i appreciate that a lot of trials rider's hometowns only have a wall that progressively gets bigger! If i didn't have a lot to ride and just a wall i would have never even got into trials let alone stuck at it! So i do have a lot of respect for riders that have had to do it. And they might arrive somewhere like the moonrocks and without a marked out route would not have a clue where to go on them. The main thing i really don't understand is the people who ONLY RIDE TRIALS! Fair enough not having the money or space for 8 bike's, but i couldn't imagine just riding trials. I ride the bmx track and park on my 24 (taught me a lot!! especially when on the moonrocks, made me spot little lines with kickers verts etc) Xc & FR it's just fun and therapeutic, me and my other half also have time trials going on, on the way to work. We started with 14min times and have both been slowly getting the time down, just a bit of fun competition that you could do on your own. And obviously trials as it's my favourite, as it's rewarding, challenging, a great fitness regime and it pushes me to want to better myself at it. When i go in a sk8 park i'm quite happy to mill about not doing massive thing's. But with trials it doesn't have to be a massive side hop or gap, nor be stupidly dangerous to be rewarding. LOL! Sorry for the rant just read it back through and i chat shit at times! Edited September 13, 2012 by Miss-Higgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 it was Luke Rainbird who commented on a video "Yay for having fun on bikes!" Universal law 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liam n Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 I ride what ever, depends where the southwest lot are heading! natural and street. got a 26" really starting to like more rolly moves but, yeah i do what ever and have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 The main thing i really don't understand is the people who ONLY RIDE TRIALS! I only ride trials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistair14 Posted September 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 All i've done is proper trials ..TGS with the odd spin ..thats pretty much it! I got bored of it cause there was noone who rides anymore around my area ..and the only one who did has just snapped his frame, so im back to riding alone! I just find it easier to stick with this cause theres so many walls etc near me i can just go out and do a few lines ..sidehops, pedal ups etc and push my self more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurence--Trials Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 I ride all types, brakeless, TGS, comp, and street my main styles i do are comp then i'll sometimes mix into that a little street. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williams Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 All i've done is proper trials ..TGS with the odd spin ..thats pretty much it! I got bored of it cause there was noone who rides anymore around my area ..and the only one who did has just snapped his frame, so im back to riding alone! I just find it easier to stick with this cause theres so many walls etc near me i can just go out and do a few lines ..sidehops, pedal ups etc and push my self more Don't you ride with euan and his crew? I've seen him in on of your vids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 TGS, it's all an unambitious rider like me with 10+ years of experience can do. I long all day for the rush that getting up the same wall in the same way for the millionth time gives you. It's a stunning feeling of absolutely nothing at all. The climax of indifference. An ultimate meh coming from deep inside your heart. This is why I ride trials. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p_ruskin Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 I don't mix it up at all really, I'm very much 'pure trials' and mostly tgs at that, but i have not found myself becoming bored of riding whatsoever, but I'm sure the further along the line i will start to change what/how i ride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alistair14 Posted September 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 Don't you ride with euan and his crew? I've seen him in on of your vids. Nah, that was the DJ ride down in portsmouth ..that was the third time i've ridden with him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss-Higgy Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 I only ride trials But that's a blatant lie.. Do i not recall semi recent pictures of you side hopping your xc bike? Ok, you were riding proper trials on it. But you must have done some trials that day. And don't you own a bmx? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted September 13, 2012 Report Share Posted September 13, 2012 Don't you ride with euan and his crew? I've seen him in on of your vids. Ah, the euan crew. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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