October 12, 201312 yr http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scott+trial+1974&oq=scott+trial+1974&gs_l=youtube.12...0.0.0.1641850.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac..11.youtube. With just a week to go a look back to when men were men and bikes had decent fuel tanks. None er yer poncy hopping about stuff here!! Enjoy (oh my god thats poncy waiter talk)
October 13, 201312 yr Them old bog wheel bikes sounded pitiful when they were new! Still do! Being of that genre, my modern bike is a racehorse compared to a mule! At least I think so, yet the young kids have no appreciation!
October 14, 201312 yr I was out yesterday on my 2.9 Sherco and a buddy was riding my '78 247C. When we switched, I couldn't wait to get off the damned thing. I have no idea how to ride that old bike. My buddy likes it, so I sold it to him....cheap. It is incredible to me, though, that modern trials was born on bikes like that. When I look at the stuff the guys from the '70's were doing, it blows my mind...I just don't want to do it myself!
October 14, 201312 yr That's a great watch! I'm sure one fella had a tie on? Oh and the one chaps sole was coming off his boot. Proper trial that one.
October 14, 201312 yr Biggest difference to me and I was talking about this only the other day was that back then we didn't expect to clean every section. In fact if we cleaned any section then it was like a win. The norm was a 3 or a 1 for a good ride. The aim was not to stop and get a 5. Nowadays everybody just assumes you should clean everything and a 1 or heaven forbid a 3 is deemed a disaster and you might as well load the bike into the van and go home. When asked riders say "oh I had a crap day lost 21" In the day I regularly lost 120 + and still won Novice and Intermediate awards. Yes men were men back then
October 14, 201312 yr Biggest difference to me and I was talking about this only the other day was that back then we didn't expect to clean every section. In fact if we cleaned any section then it was like a win. The norm was a 3 or a 1 for a good ride. The aim was not to stop and get a 5. Nowadays everybody just assumes you should clean everything and a 1 or heaven forbid a 3 is deemed a disaster and you might as well load the bike into the van and go home. When asked riders say "oh I had a crap day lost 21" In the day I regularly lost 120 + and still won Novice and Intermediate awards. Yes men were men back then Aye, and you had to ride every section to be a finisher - none of this malarkey of asking for a five at the ones you don't like.
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