Twilite Posted July 9, 2005 Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 I don't see why it doesn't have Olympic appeal. Well, compared to skateboarding or vert BMX; it's not an extreme sport. It has rules, and can be judged quantitatively, so it'd work as a competitive event, like most of the others. But I agree on not wanting it to be featured in the Olympics, not sure why, just don't like the image of it being an international olympic event. (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onza Kieron Posted July 9, 2005 Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 I dont want trials to become a public thing due to the olympics. When you see trials riders you know they are riders unlike when you see a bmx it could be a bmxer or a chav or a little kid if you know what i mean. Trials is a small friendly sport that should stay the same size in my opinion. KIeron :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 9, 2005 Report Share Posted July 9, 2005 I dont want trials to become a public thing due to the olympics. When you see trials riders you know they are riders unlike when you see a bmx it could be a bmxer or a chav or a little kid if you know what i mean. Trials is a small friendly sport that should stay the same size in my opinion. ← Er, which shouldn't let other people try it? :) I don't really have a problem with it becoming an olympic sport. I ride on my own, and I wouldn't mind having someone else to ride with, pretty much. Chavs can be turned from Chavdom into being actual decent, normal folk too :angry: But either way, if you think of all the cool shit that's happened to you since you started trials, wouldn't it be better for other people to experience that too? So giving it a little more exposure wouldn't be such a bad thing. Shooting is in the olympics too, but you don't see people going round shooting targets at 50m everywhere, do you? Same way you don't see people cartwheeling down the road 'cos gymnastics is in there. Trials bikes are properly specialised now into being low, long and seatless. For a non-trials rider (and even trials riders who prefer shorter WB's (N)), these bikes are beasts to ride. If you're a chav wanker, are you going to want to have to ride a bike which is going to be hard to ride, uncomfortable over any distance, and make you look like a fag, or are you going to want to ride something with, say, a seat, stunt pegs so your retard friends can stand on the bike with you, and so on? Trials bikes simply don't appeal to non-trials riders, so they aren't going to sell well. People under the age of about 14 or so will also generally have their bike bought for them, so whereas parents might go "Hmm, a BMX... well, I guess other people use them and they're kinda practical, OK then", they're going to go "Hmm, a 'trials' bike... well, no-one else really uses them, there's no seat, and it's hella expensive. And you'll look like a fag." It's just not ever going to catch on, pretty much. People who aren't really into it might give it a go for, say, 3 weeks, but then they'll get bored. People who are into 'fads' like that typically end up being a different kind of person: We call them "bladers". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScotchDave Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 Have you ever tried it? Its like the hardest stroke possible. Other than trying to swim 100m using your little fingers only........ or your teeth ← Yeah but if you get it right it's fast as hell is it not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomass666 Posted July 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 hehe i won a butterfly race when i was about 10, all you do is thrash the water as hard as possible. But back to the topic... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 Yeah but if you get it right it's fast as hell is it not? ← It's not much faster (if it is at all :angry:\) than front crawl, and front crawl requires like a tenth of the energy. Yeah, I used to swim butterfly for a swimming team too. It sucked. Hugely. 'specially when on 'race day' you have to swim twice the length you thought you were supposed to :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bionic Balls Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 i hear that the XC race is going to be at Weald park. :angry: oh yeah....good one guys. 'tis tres small, and tres flat. The place at Athens looked "schweet". They will have to do many laps of the same course to make it anything like a challenge :) pointless i know. adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 So true :lol: I mean, swimming's just about getting from one point to another, through a stretch of water. Who, in their right f**king mind, would go "I need to get to the shore. I will swim butterfly."? You'd just do front crawl, surely :P I just don't get why they have the butterfly stroke... ← They have the butterfly stroke to make the sport more interesting and have variation. You are just being stereotypical, i don't know about you but personally i hate it when people discribe trials as hoping on 1 wheel. (N) :lol: Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_rule_the_world Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 i aint read all the other posts, but xc is already in it i am pretty sure, there is one type of mountain biking. xc was defo in commonwealth games. trials is more likely than bmx vert to get in the olympics, but there are already stupid amounts of sports in games that recieve zero coverage, the 2012 bid also included a bmx track for bmx racing and thaty was gonna be part of the 2012 legacy. even if trials did get in wouldnt make the slightest difference to the sport as it would not get the media coverage anyway. and about the 7years comment to get events in the games, takes mucho longer than that. but looking from how trials is done i cant see reasons that it shouldnt be, in comparison to all the other sports in the games. uses variety of muscles etc, or could be judged. someone e-mail the IOC and ask, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 They have the butterfly stroke to make the sport more interesting and have variation. You are just being stereotypical, i don't know about you but personally i hate it when people discribe trials as hoping on 1 wheel. (N) :lol: Tom ← I don't really get how I'm being stereotypical? It's just from my experience from when I did swimming races :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 BMX racing has been around for what, 50/60 years, if not longer? It has umpteen video games, huge megastars, parks in every city, and is one of the most widely done extreme sport on the planet, but yet, its taken all this time to get into the Olympics? Trials won't be in the olympics for decades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 BMX racing has been around for what, 50/60 years, if not longer? ← BMX's only really came about in the 60's-70's? Everyone go get the video trailer for the film Joe Kid On A Stingray! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 that vids superb!!! :shifty: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_Tupman Posted July 12, 2005 Report Share Posted July 12, 2005 I would very much like to see trials in the Olympics but I can't see it happening in 2012 :P I did see one thing that was intrsting though, every country that holds the Olypics can enter 8 minorty sports that have never been in it before to try and introduce them for future years. Thats how DH BMX has got into the German Olympics :shifty: There is still hope yet :rip:" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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