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Nice. I was expecting you to think its a bit weird at the beginning. Ive ridden alot of bikes but a trials bike is completely different. My recomendation is to just play for the first few days. Get familiar with the bike. Your skills improve very fast after you learn how to predict what the clutch, throttle, brake, suspension etc are going to do. Look forward to seing how you get on.

Hey bud, when you do get the bike, the fire will be ignited. Ive been off mine due to some pita injuries that have turned up but got on the bike yesterday. Woooohooooo what fun. You gonna love it. Ps also hope to be on a 13 beta 300 very soon. Hoping.

Hi guys. Been super busy at work, owners and all their friends have booked the lodge out. No progress on the bike yet but managed to bugger my elbow up now trying to get a impala skull out of a tree. Good news is that I might be on a 13 Evo300 soon. Should know in the next few weeks. Ps did a bit of a free ride yesterday and had a ball. Realized that handlebars are wider than a door frame. Tried to ride into our reservation office and came to a sudden stop

Nice, i forgot that one. Makes sense. Thanks for the advice, all valid points. I plan on putting up a few mini sections that cover some of my points eg: figure 8 crossing a bigger log in the middle (cover 1-4) etc. Need to think of some others that cover some other points. i can ride about 30 min to 1hr every day if i want so i would like to hop on the bike ride this little section then that little section and when im done, ive covered a few of the points. Mybe do that then every second day, just play and free ride. Im dying to ride some natural terain but just cant get to any at the moment (too many elephant arround). Im stuck in my little training spot for the time being. Thanks guys

You are right. Im good at 1-6, not great but good enough for clubman level. Im curious about the order from then on. What I would like to achieve from this thread is a basic list of what to learn when. I think most beginners are like me and want to do the cool things asap and neglect practicing things within their level and get in over their head, get frustrated and quit because they cant ride like the big boys. I seriously would like to be good at this sport and have the will power and the time to practice, but I would like to learn efficiently while having fun. Eg, im practicing the japzap on a decent tire but am no where close to needing this technique for events just yet. However, I would like to start buggering arround with the more advanced stuff just for fun and get a feel for it. Basically I feel stuck with my learning curve. I can do the easy stuff well but am battling with the harder techniques. I would like to tackle one at a time but im not sure which one to start with and what order I should be learning in. Im guessing there are a few other guys with the same issue?

Hi guys Thought i would start a new thread that will help novices (such as me) to practice the more important techniques of trials riding, hopefully with the help of the more experienced guys here. Basically i would like to make a list of the trials riding techniques that should be practiced and in what order they should be learnt/practiced in relation to importance and difficulty as well as relevance to say, clubman events. This could be horribly wrong and im sure ill miss some importants steps out, but here is my example: Balance Figure 8's Little weelies Riding over small obstacles (lower than bash plate) Cambured turns, up & down, tight. Riding over bigger obstacles (slightly taller than bash plate hight) Roll overs Double blip technique Jap Zap Hopping front/back wheels left & right Nose weelie turns Splatting Hopping on the rear wheel Back flips If any of you more experianced riders have the time, please could you add to, delete from and edit my list as to your preferece. I would like to structure my training a bit and try spend more time learning and practicing these techniques. If i free ride, i end up only doing the fun/easy stuff. Thanks guys.

Just a guess......but surely you put shoes on in the morning before work ?? (Why? Because they look cool or because they protect your feet?). Ive seen forks snap below the bottom clamp (a buddy who overtook me before a HUGE hole I new of, enduro), not pretty at all. No amount of protection will save that kind of impact, or a trials bike cart wheeling down some rocks. As to fork guards making noise.......you doing it wrong.......slow down and the whistling will stop (cant think of any other way they might make noise).

Here is my latest attempt, trying to jump harder and placing the front wheel lower (see pic). Should I be holding preasure/leaning back to keep the front up a bit longer?

My pickup does have seat covers, how did you guess When I sell my bike, I will remove the covers and the bike will look great to the guy who will hand me over a bit more dosh for my trouble, then I will have a little more dosh to spend on the next bike , make sense? I would certainly spend a bit more money on a bike that has obviously been cared for and looked after rather than one that was thrashed because thats what they were made for.... I was asked about the upper guards on my bike. I got the bike with them but most guys in sa have them fitted. A guy named graham on trials.co.za would be able to give you info on them. His email address is on the sight. Cost about R400 ($40).

Thats a very valid point that i havent noticed......unweighting while my front is still on the verticle section of the obstacle. That will be the next thing i try maybe tomorrow if i get a chance. I did watch the above vid in slomo on my phone and the bash plate does clear but only just.

A bunch of the guys in the club I ride with are using black poly prop water pipe on there swinging arms. Similar to my fork guards, they split the pipe and use 3x big cable/zip ties to hold them on. Its a bit too fugly for my bike but works. Im still thinking of a better looking option.

Had a quick ride now to see what happens and I think im in the right direction. The back wheel is hopping and seemsto be riding up the tire better rather than slaming into it. I still think my front might be a little high tthough? Im purposely not hopping off as I feel sorry for my suspension and dont want to strain it unnecessarily. I did put a marker on the tire so I could try vary the hight of the front to see what happens.

Thanks Mr N, that at least points me in the right direction. Whats your thoughts on the weelie to lift the front or bouncing the front up? I have a 15 year old bike injury to my shoulder that is starting to act up due to all the training I think. It is extremely painful tonight and i just hope it doesnt cause me to put my training on hold. I also dont want it to get any worse. Might have to take it easy for a few days .

Need some assistance if possible. Im still battling to get hight with my zaps. Heres a short vid trying to zap my big tire with no kicker. What I think I see is too much bounce to bring the front up and not enough bounce to get up the tire (second bounce). Also, I think I might be putting the front up too high on the tire and not getting enough load on the suspension? Should I be bouncing the front up initially or should I be popping a weelie and using more power than bounce to bring the front up? Any advice will be appreciated.

Figured it out. The inner bushes on the shock is two halves. Use a drift and drift one half out of the opposite side then turn over and drift the other half out. Rotate the inner ring/ball 90 degrees and pack full of grease. Tap in the two half bushes and you are done. Do the top and then the bottom of the shock, the bushes are different widths and it took me a while to figure out which is the top ones and which is the bottom. Glad I did it, they were bone dry and the right swinging arm bearing was siezed. Suspension was very noisy but now is super smooth and quiet.

I have a 07 rev3 and the only thing I havent relubed since I got the bike is the rear suspension. Currently I have the swinging arm off and know what to do there but what do I do with the shock? Does the shock have roller bearings top and bottom? Can the inner bearing bushes be drifted out like on the swinging arm? I tried to drift them but they would not shift......? Any trix?

Just spoke to my dad. Clice do the bigger sizes but only available in black and grey. My pops is a 38 waist and bought the xxxxl (42) but says the xxxl (40) would have probably been better for him. Hope that helps.

I think its cool....I plan on getting a 11 next year so with a pair of scissors and some vinyl, ill have a cheaper, current bike . My skill level would never be able to tell the difference

Me and my pops. Pops in his "pork pie" (trialsuks exact words off their site) pants

Hi. My pops emailed trialsuk and asked for a size 42. They responded with a few options, a transfer was done and a week or rwo later, my dads pants arrived. He got cliece (spelling?) pants. We are in South Africa and it was a simple order.

You should take a break, riding for a week continously is not good for your health......or did you get bored and loose interest already? ??

What I do need to do is practice on different types of terrain. This trial had everything in it from rivers to rocky staircases to very slippery slate, wet rocks, deap mud the works! I need to try different terrains in different gears. Being in the wrong gear did cost me some dabs and I was continously questioning my choice of gear. Here is a vid of section 9, this had a deap mud pool just before a slippery climb out that you cant see in the vid: Here is a vid of section 10:

Hi guys Results are in, have a look here to see how I did (Dylan Marriner): http://nrtc.trials.co.za/cms/index.php?command=View&item_id=126 I placed 8th out of 18 riders in my class. Im VERY happy with how I did and the fact that I even finished. The other riders were surprised that I even entered (due to not being on trials for too long) and warned us that this trial was set to national level. We were told to be very careful as it and the nationals are the toughest events of the year (the only two events where a pize is given just for completing the trials). The course was set over a 4-5km area and its true what they warned us about.....between sections was far harder than the sections itself. The whole lap was one loooong tough section. Time was extended from 5.5hrs to 6hrs as the trials was set so difficult. I finished with 15min to spare. 5hrs 45min on the pegs, im absolutely buggered today. Ps: these pics and vids to come are from section 9 & 10, the only sections my wife could get to and without being funny, they were the 2 easiest sections (im a fisherman and this is not one of them BS lines ).

310km down to my pops. 50ish km to Magaliesburg for the trial on sunday. Then 300km back home straight after the trial, think the wifes gonna have to do that leg of the trip. Got my boyz oset loaded up aswell + all his kit.

My journey down to magalies begins tomorrow morning.