joostio

my 06 2.9 does the same thing. Now I learned how to deal with it. 1 start bike in neuteral 2 pull in clutch, rev engine a bit, do this for a good 30 seconds, clutch in, out, in out ect.. 3 problem solved

Congrats on the new bike, it should be great to learn on. As far as learning to ride goes, it would be nice if you had people to ride with. Oh well, you don't but don't let that stop you. Watch as much video as you can, maybe watch less world round stuff and try to find videos of normal people ridding, like myself who is gravitationaly challanged. Listen carefully on these videos to the engine, trials bikes are not ridden the same as normal bikes when it comes to engine handling. go on you tube and type in "Putt Putt trials" and you should find a nice video of trail ridding, not everyone rides in trials events, many people use them as mountain bikes and enjoy challenging tight single track trails. Good luck and enjoy.

I just got an 06 2.9 and I have broken the rear fender twice in 4 rides. It was already broken when I got the bike. I remember breaking fenders on my old beta alp a lot too. But for the last 3 years I have been ridding a 315r and never broke a fender. the 315 even came with a new spare fender. I have a spare decal kit for the Sherco and decided to modify my spare Montesa fender. The Montesa fender is very bendy and flexy. I will have to trim it a bit but it should look alright. anyone else keep breaking them? last ride I also broke the front fender and bent the handle bars....

I agree with Ishhy too, the problem is not with the observer but instead with the rules. is it a clean because his feet did not leave the pegs? is it a 2 because he touched at least twice? or is it a 5 because he slide back a bit? one set of rules would really clear this up.

thanks for the link, hadn't seen it yet, it is very cool. this type of influence will increase ridder numbers in my opion. need some competions in this style.

will do. hoping to make that event but there may be a funeral to attend, wife's grampa. I know bob would likely go, maybe a few more too.

I haven't found too much close by, a short trail next to the trent river, I have been working on a trail in Union Bay but it is in progress and still short. I just paly around on an over pass by my house, the over pass goes across the inland island highway. There are apperenlty a few atv trails across the highway down by you, up Fanny bay main, the guard at the gate won't let you in so you would need to find another way, not difficult. I could show you the trent river trail on night after work, would need to be soon with it getting darker earlier and all. 335 2474, ask for Joost. i work 8 to 5 tuesday to sat. I won't be at the ride this sunday, fire department trainning! Sucks to be me! I hope to get out on Monday.

hello. I guess by now you figured out where and when we meet. 10 am,sundays at A&W on the south side of town. We generally trail ride while stopping at certain hill climbs or obstacles. the ride is tailored to the level of ability of whom ever shows up. I just live up the coats from you in Union Bay. The best ridding out here is at Comox lake. killer single track technical terrain. how old is your son? maybe we will meet this sunday, just look for the guys with the gas gas hats, they are the same guys who marvel at the Montesa ridder (me). I am a bit out numbered up here, there are a few scorpa's up here, but mostly gas gas. I use auto track 2 from GM in my trans on the monty, not expensive and a lot of guys use this. I bought a case long ago and still have plenty. as far as ftermarket goes, the bikes are built pretty good out of the box, guys I know get a bit invovlved in set up, ie: jetting and carb settings. you can get fast or slow and progressive throttles. I sprung for some fancy foot pegs. not much preformance gear needed. Hope to see you one of these sundays! Rain or shine.

I think Jimbo is onto something, traditional trials will be hard to get lots more peolpe interested in. I think that the new group of cross over people will be from mountain biking. I live on Vancouver island BC Canada, we have awesome single track trails. we have a small group of ridders (trials) here and we 99% trail ride. We had a downhill MB guy buy a sherco and he is totally into it. The MB guys have no concept of going up some of their trails, when this new guy rode with us he was amazed. A good event to help gain popularity would be to go to a Mountain Bike park in a place like Whistler and have uphill races. just a thought. Also some demos in a few skate parks would be fun and good eposure.

I just found the xispa section and thread. seams to be a lot of disscusion.

Thanks for the pic, wish there were more. also a review of how it rides would be nice.

nice pics, any hikers on the trail? Happy birthday.

I see no mention of China on their web site, it does say made in Spain. I bought a cheap chinese pocket bike and yes the components are quite crappy but the construction was even worse, fuel lines rubbing on exaust ect...On the pocket bike I was able to upgrade most of the nuts and bolts and bearings for quite cheap, made it twice the bike. I suspect in Canada we won't ever see one of these bikes anyway. time will tell, as well as availibility of parts.

I rebuilt my master too, had a heck of a time bleeding. I removed the entire calliper in placed it above the master with a thin peice of wood where the rotor would go. I bled it and then installed onto bike, worked good. another method, fill brakes from the bottom up. Use a large syringe and with a small hose on the bleed nipple to fill it. once fluid reaches the master it should be good to go. just like the post above

I always pull in the clutch going downhill and control speed with brakes. we have some long hills here (mountains) and they make for some great runs down. We have a new ridder in our groud and he is a down hill mountain biker, he goes down hill in 4th or 5th at full speed. it all depemds on your comfort level, I wish I could keep up with our new guy!

Hey Dave, I really enjoyed your event in Shawnigan but I must admit that I still enjoy trail ridding the most, stopping at obstacles and playing around, climbing mountains with killer terrain and views. I asked this question because I wonder what the difference is between us and Europe, we must have much better terrain access and I imagine this effects why and what people ride. We do have a good system here in Courtenay, we meet for breakfast on Sunday morning and head out to the hills after food. sometimes we ride with only 2 or 3 people or on a good day more then 10 ridders. I have thought about forming a club but see some negatives to it, as a club you can be held accountable were as we just ride as a group fairly unorganized. With logging companies constantly closing areas access is becomming a problem on the island. although proper communication with them and getting permision is the right way to go, I don't have time to do that. We act responsible and fly below the radar for now, there are some negotiations in effect and the turn out wil be very interesting to us. as far as interest in events goes: I would like to see more clubs or groups of people hosting a ride. Show off some of your best locall terrain. We used to have a ride in this area called "the no mams" I have never been on it and hear rummors of it comming back, I look fprwrd to it. we also have a very loose plan to ride with some guys in Powell River, we plan to push our bikes on the ferry and get picked up on the other side in a cube van. Us north islanders have extended invitations to both Steve Fracy and Dave Fair, we would love to have some guest ridders join us this summer, (the invitation is open to anyone). I think this trail ride host thing could help for more ridders to meet and see some great new terrain, may cater to more of the ridding most people do. nice to have a place to chat about this.

I was just wondering how most people like to spend thier time on the pegs, here in Courtenay on Vancouver Island we don't have an official club so we mostly ride trail. where do you ride and what do you prefer? Trails or events or just a practice area?

I have some old small mountain bike lights that used to run off a battery in a water bottle. I was wondering if they could be run off the electricle system as most bikes come with a light from factory. the lights are 15 and 20 watts each, I think they used to run off 7.2 volts but really not sure on that one. would these lights be hard on my magneto? thanks for the help. I want to start night ridding soon and need some good light.

Courtenay, Union Bay actually. I have even started building some trails a few km's from my house. there is a mountain range close by that looks like some good terrain, its slow going blazing a new trail.

hey all, nice to see an active trials forum. I have been on here for a while but figured a late intro is better then no intro. I have a 2000 Monty 315r. I had a 96 Beta Alp before that. Been ridding for about 3 years now and look forward to ridding my first event this season. I live on Vancouver Island and the group I ride with manily ride on mountain bike terrain. We ride up thier down trails. we climb close to 4000' in a ride easily, the terrain here makes me feel blessed as we have some killer trails. will have to post some pics. thanks for the good site, I just started tunning my suspension a bit inspired by talk on this site. Might try the quick throttle too.

in my opinion it costs about the same to buy new as it cost to operate a few year old bike. I bought a 00 monty in 2005 and have spent $1000 in a year and I still need to buy those over priced tires. some guys I ride with have new and only loose $2000 in 2 years and they get the joy of ridding brand new equipment, they also keep thier hands clean not having to replace chains, sprockets and linkage bearings. sure it costs more up front but I really believe the cost is the same in the end. They also get to ride more modern equipment then me. as for cheap bikes from China, not for me, all experiences I have had with cheap crap from china has convinced me to stay the hell away. thier build quality and parts are crap, good luck finding replacement parts.

if you want to mainstream trials ridding you need to jazz it up from the traditional event type of ridding. I was hoping to find a link to the video "out of section high" but can't find it. these guys are riding through town, skate parks and doing new moves from a newer influence. this type of riding will inspire the younger generation to get a bike possibly. if some one could post a link to it that would be great, It was on our trials canada forum but I can't find it anymore. I can't wait to learn how to railslide my Monty. I have been doing some urban trials lately too, I like to ride on concrete highway deviders. many older sports have been revived by newer influence, the one that comes to mind for me is skiing, its all the rage now that skiers are allowed in the snowboard parks and kids are comming up with new tricks. to get on x games we would need a few guys to put some moves together in a skate park or something.

the double back is cool but I much prefer the flat spin 360 on the trials bike in the "out of section high" movie, also cool to see the guy do a rail slide on a trials bike. trials is a very tradeitional sport when it comes to events, it's nice to see this new vid with skate boarding and other newer influnces. This is what will help trials get more popular. where I ride we don't have enough people for events, we trail ride on our bikes, we go up "downhill mountain bike" trails, mountain bikers are too one directional. we do some awesome climbs, step up jumps and ride on "north shore" style stunts.

I cuaght the second half of it, it was awesome. Where I ride we have some events but our group mainly trail rides up mountains, would like to show case that stuff too. I ride mine more like an uphill mountain bike. this show gave us some good exposure, well done.