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Sweet! I'll try to hit that one up. The other day I found there was one this weekend way down south but kind of late notice to get up and go check that out. This sounds good though, I'll look into it. Yeah I'm in Tulare which is like 40 mins south of Fresno.

How does a trials bike compare to a regular dirt bike? My goal is to ride a dirt bike over rocks and over logs and down winding single trails in the forest a lot better. It sounds like a trials bike is perfect for that stuff but all my buddies ride dirt bikes. Maybe I can convert them xD Yes I agree about the double PS... that sounds like way more fun... I'm done with the motocross track, never liked it much anyway cause I was more into the desert and mountains and the adventure riding stuff. I broke my hand and my leg on the track so I was like, why I am I even doing this... if I'm gonna break stuff it's gonna be doing something I like... though I would prefer no more broken bones. My accidents with the motocross track though were from poor basic control skills that weren't second nature and things can go wrong and happen quick on the track so you gotta be on it... so that kind of motivated me to scale back and get a trials bike... Even though I have no intention of going back to the track, I would prefer to just be a better rider in general. It would really help with the rock climbing me and my buddy did a while back too... That was ROUGH!!! If I had known about these back then, I would have got one of these then instead of mess with the stupid motocross track with my other buddy.

I'm in California. LA is about 3 hours south from here. I have no idea where competitions are held around here but I'll look into it. The 250 will be a bit much for the beginner even if I'm pretty comfortable on a regular dirt bike? I've got a DRZ 400 and a YZ250f. DRZ is too big for me on the dirt so I use it as a street bike. 250 I've got pretty good control over. Not really into all the rock and crazy stuff they do on these trials... I want one purely so I can ride my dirt bike better. I'm fine at higher speeds but going real slow, like single trail riding in the mountains, going over rocky trails, and fine tuned technical control are my weakness.

I just discovered there were such a thing as trials bikes the other day. I've had a few mishaps on my dirt bike and someone suggested a trials bike to really develop balance and technical control. Checking them out online, they look like a lot of fun. I really would like to get one. Around here though, it doesn't seem they are that popular. I think the closest dealer around here that has them is about 3 hours away according to a trials bike website. I was curious what are good prices for used bikes. Hell, even brand new bikes I have a hard time figuring out prices. Found prices for some new honda trials bikes like 10k.... is that about what the new ones go for (seems rather expensive when you can get full on dirt bikes for that price but what do I know?). Also, what are some good bikes to look for? Searching craigslist, trials bike in general can bring up weird stuff I'm not looking for. The one I found on craigslist and I was tempted to get because it's the only one I've seen pop up around here was a 2007 gas gas TXT 250 pro for 3800 dollars.