masso Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 me and a few of the lads have been having a discussion/argument regarding when the first rear wheel hop-turn happened?...who started it ??......any of you old timeres remember ????........................................masso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old trials fanatic Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 Good post :agree: Must say at the trial last Sunday, Peak Classic, i did have to ask a couple of the observers "we are supposed to be riding to NO STOP rules surely?". Response was a vage bemused look Not to go over old groumd but i blame allowing riders on modern machinery to enter classic trials The younger and some of the older element then see them playing Zebadee and start trying it on pre65 and twinshocks then the whole thing degenerates from there. Sections get tighter / dafter and the "Classic" entries dwindle and the only difference is it's a modern trial with kids on old bikes So that was the moment when Trials went into decline ? Always wondered when it was. Thanks Motosinge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 I can pinpoint the event when, for my money, the face of trials changed forever. It was the Italian World Championship round in 1981 when SWM riders Giovanni Tosco and Gilles Burgat, the young World Champ-to-be, made a great play of stopping and balancing (feet-up) on a crucial section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sectionone Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 The first bunny hop I saw on a trials bike was by Bernie Schreiber around 1981 on a Bultaco. It wasn't in a section though, just showing off bunny hopping on flat ground over a some of people laying down. In his Observed Trials book around 1984 there are photos of him bunny hopping a dozen people on flat pavement. It also shows him demonstrating the rear wheel hop turn. He was also jumping off 7 foot vertical ledges on his Bultaco long before they ever became part of sections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masso Posted December 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 The first bunny hop I saw on a trials bike was by Bernie Schreiber around 1981 on a Bultaco. It wasn't in a section though, just showing off bunny hopping on flat ground over a some of people laying down. In his Observed Trials book around 1984 there are photos of him bunny hopping a dozen people on flat pavement. It also shows him demonstrating the rear wheel hop turn. He was also jumping off 7 foot vertical ledges on his Bultaco long before they ever became part of sections. ahhhh.....................well, this looks like the closest answer to my question......the rear wheel turn!!! not just hopping around....somehow I get the feeling there was some europeans doing it first...............................................masso Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofasttim Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 The first bunny hop I saw on a trials bike was by Bernie Schreiber around 1981 on a Bultaco. It wasn't in a section though, just showing off bunny hopping on flat ground over a some of people laying down. In his Observed Trials book around 1984 there are photos of him bunny hopping a dozen people on flat pavement. It also shows him demonstrating the rear wheel hop turn. He was also jumping off 7 foot vertical ledges on his Bultaco long before they ever became part of sections. Seconded, Schrieber but it was earlier than '81. Probably 'bout '78. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axulsuv Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 3rd vote fir Bernie , 78 or 79 Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian r Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 Nah, must have been a yerupein, couldn't have been a bloody American! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toofasttim Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 Funny thing 'bout the bunny hop was that within a few months of finding out about it every clubman out there was doing it. Show me a clubman who can hop on the back wheel today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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