General Trials Talk

Looking to get into some low level obstacles. Would be cool to see what others have!

If you ride a road bike as well as a trials bike, do you try & keep your feet up? I try to, at junctions, traffic lights etc, usually end up putting a foot down though if it's a long wait

We rode in the scott trial last week and one of our biggest fears was a front puncture as they are very time consuming and a general massive pain to sort by yourself half way up a moor. We did use a heavy duty tube with slime in it and did avoid punctures but you will never know how close you actually got to getting one. I have since noticed that Nitromousse list a "plushie" for a Michelin x11 and Dunlop front tyre that gives 6 to 8 psi These seem ideal for the Scott/SSDT I know that a mousses historically were generally regarded as too hard and had little feel to them but they seem to have come on technically (so they all claim) in recent t…

Hi. Anyone here use a trail push bike to practice on when they can't get out on their trials bike? I was just wondering if they could be worth a purchase?

Just wondering if anyone else on here was from the Isle.

The forks on my Climber are a bit "Donky", by that I mean then need a bit of weight over the front befre they go "donk" and a little more, then they go "Donk" again. When bouncing them furiously they seem ok but they're not too smooth on the low speed stuff. So far I have: 1) Slackened off the yoke pinch bolts and bounced the forks hoping they'd line up. 2) Used a ratchet strap to wind the forks right down, then slackened off the pinch bolts a bit, this helped a bit. 3) Loosened off the axle clamps and shifted them round a bit to see if it would fall into position. 4) All of the above in unison. Any ideas? They are USD forks that were smooth as silk apparently befo…

Hello we are French trial side-car riders ,we'd like to get in touch with British riders to exchange views and ,why not?, manage to get togheter one day.

Hey guys, I'm travelling to Lyon next week for business but have a bit of down time. Does anyone know if there is a trials shop in Lyon? I tried googling but no luck. Thanks!

I fancy some new gear as my Clice is becoming tatty after 4 years. I dont want Hebo as everyone seems to have Hebo and liked the look of Exide, but does anyone have any views on the clothing as to its quality and does it stand up to the job.

Hi, If anyone knows anything aboout wheel building please take a look at my post in PRE 65. I put it there as the wheel is on my Cub, but posted this as it doesn't appear many people use the pre 65 board! Steve.

Was thinking about going this year but it's a quite a hike for me. Worth it? Anybody been?

For those that know me or have seen my vehicles they know that I have a small sticker addiction. A fellow trials riders wife turned me onto a little evil machine that allows me free rain to get any decal I want on demand. I am not into tattoos so I guess this is the way of me expressing myself. Case in point the van back glass. (note picture is outdated but read on) So here I am Friday night and I have plenty of other constructive things that I should be doing and I cant turn my engineering brain off so I head to my local craft store to enhance an already cool machine. By enhance I have enabled myself to create my own gaskets on demand. Let me explain.My …

my rear brake is getting a little noisy. the pads got plenty of material left on them but they are starting to squeek. for the sake of < 15 qwid im going to pop some new pads in. after looing at my disc there are a couple of score marks on it so i have been thinking of getting it skimmed? a new disc is more than i want to spend at the moment, and an engineers will only charge a tenner if that to skim it smooth and check it for flat. just wondering is there tolerance on bike discs like the car equivalent? anybody done the same?

I have been promised mine on Thursday, anybody got theirs yet and if so were they worth the wait?

anybody got videos of youth 125's in action i want to see how hard the sections are and level of riding cherrs

looking to buy just the spacer washer mushroom steel bushing part after the nut fell off the bottom my kickstart and this part disappeared with it. anyone have any idea where I can get one without forking out for a whole new kickstart lever. thanks.

Looking at getting some boots, any opinions on these?? I need a wider fitting

Two age old questions? How could you 5 me? I wasn't stopped with my foot down! How could you 5 me? I didn't roll back with my foot down! We've been dealing with those questions as a club for 30 years. So we're toying with just counting dabs...up to 5. That's pretty cut and dry. He either put it down or he didn't. The arguments are: A rider can be stopped for a long time with a foot down and only get a 1. A rider can roll back multiple times with only one foot down and get more than one shot at an obstacle and only get a 1. Anyone have any experience with only counting dabs?

As it says, PM if you prefer. They have a bike for sale I'm interested in and looking buy blind....yes the original sin! Many thanks for any help.

iam trying to get an email address but only have a phone number and dont seeem to be able to phone from uk to this number 0905527438be great if someone could speak to them and get there email adress i am trying to purchase a motoplat cdi they are selling poss a dealer of electric parts