Hello everyone, Richard here. Temporarily misplaced Oregonian living in Alaska. Just getting into trials bikes and running into winter real fast! Just picked up a GG 280 (2005) a couple months ago and still working on learning how to ride it. Used to do a lot of enduro type/ single track riding in NE Oregon (20 years ago). Can tell already that this bike is going to be a BLAST!

Hi Richard. Welcome to the team. There are some great tips and a training sheet available from the Australian Trials web site

Hi Richard. Welcome to the team. There are some great tips and a training sheet available from the Australian Trials web site

thanks for the welcome the Australian group looks like a lot of fun. The site for anyone else reading is http://www.trials.com.au/content/

I have Schreiber's book and a couple of different training DVDs to watch along with some world championships from the late 90s, early 2000's that a friend gave me copies of to watch. Those are helping and it's all coming back pretty quick. The biggest problem now is that winter has arrived in AK and a short test ride proved to me that riding in the snow is going to take the addition of some sheet metal screws for traction!

Screws could do it but I think you can buy the tyre inserts. Have a look in the web.

How the h*ll will you stop the bike coolant from freezing. Does it need anything special?

Screws could do it but I think you can buy the tyre inserts. Have a look in the web.

How the h*ll will you stop the bike coolant from freezing. Does it need anything special?

I'll check out the site and see what's available. Part of my problem is that I am not very patient... I can get the sheet metal screws locally, Tomorrow... the tyre inserts I'd have to order and getting things to AK is SLOW.

The coolant is anti-freeze and I have upped the ratio a bit and the bike is now good to -40! I however will NOT be out riding when it's anywhere near that cold...