My fav "modern" trials bikes

[Owens]

Hi All, thought I'd get a fun conversation going about which bikes we love and why. Here's my list:

• 1996 Beta Techno. Representing something quite different from it's competitors with suprisingly modern handling.
• 1997 through '99 Montesa Cota 315. The best bike of it's time in many ways
• 2000 Bultaco Sherco. These early bikes were a bold statement of intent from Sherco. They meant bussiness. 
• 2005 Sherco 320 4T. An absolute weapon.
• 2005 Montesa Cota 4RT. A bike that has since become the most winning bike in the history of Trials.
• 2009 GasGas Raga Replica. Possibly the best colour scheme of any bike to this day.
• 2009 Beta Evo. A beautiful bike and a massive performance improvement over the outgoing rev3. 
• 2010 Sherco 3.0 Cabestany Replica. A great looking bike with a new chassis, a bigger engine capacity and a cool colour scheme. Seeing someone else on this bike convinced me to buy a sherco (a mistake). 
• 2012 Ossa tr280i. A short lived but technically groundbreaking bike. 
• 2015 Vertigo prototype. A attended the 2015 SSDT in which one of these bikes riden by Dougie Lampkin won the event. 
• 2017 Beta Evo 4T. My own bike and by this stage a very well sorted and fun to ride machine from Beta.

What are your favourites and why?

[marky dee]

Hi , mine is Montesa 49 , my first , and so powerfull and licht.... Montesa 348 , great machine also very powerfull . Montesa 314 first modern style , watercooled...,Beta Techno great fantastic machine 94, 96 , 97 ., 98 first Gas gas very different..good..,Gas gas Raga replica the better bike . ,Vertigo ice hell , nice bike and first injection , Vertigo Titanium and broke the frame...!!!, not nice..no warrancy after 6 monds !!!!!??, first Trs Raga replica 250 ..great bike match better than Vertigo , and now TRRS golds the best bikes for me , 2025 TRRS Gold I...exelent bike..., very nice feeling..