Ross McArthur

Great day out on the bikes! Thanks everyone for coming along

Meet under the M8 up from the hospital, 10am. We will be moving on at about 12, so if you miss us DM me.

Rather enjoyed the log tap line at 0.55.

Plenty of frenchies but no French. Just the way I like it.

From Facebook. I found this 20 years old list today, can't remember why I wrote it in the first place. Maybe for the Observed Trials magazine? Read on Trials Riders: 175 good things about trials, and things only trials riders will understand! 1.To have fun. 2. To get that feeling. 3. Bashguards. 4. Monty tires. 5. Cesar Canas. 6. To win your first trophy. 7. Mammoth. 8. To clean any section. 9. Scars on your legs. 10. Nighttime riding. 11. Getting arrested for riding on city property. 12. Not getting arrested for riding on city property. 13. Ot Pi. 14. GT’s Ricochet trials bike. 15. Grinding rims. 16. Itadori. 17. Hiroshi Hirano. 18. Riding as smooth as Thierry Girard. 19. Beating your riding buddy in a competition. 20. To keep riding an obstacles until you cleaned it. 21. OTM. 22. UCI. 23. NORBA. 24. BIU. 25. Getting dumped by your girlfriend, because you more committed to your bike than to her. 26. Not getting dumped by your girl for the same reason. 27. All mountain bike magazines which write about trials. 28. All trials promoters. 29. Getting your first sponsorship deal. 30. Beating your hero for the first time. 31. Getting a Five when you didn’t deserve it. 32. Tar. 33. Norco. 34. Speed Trials. 35. Knowing who Andreu Codina is. 36. Rocks. 37. Logs. 38. The Bike Trial Museum in Japan. 39. Practising in the rain. 40. Trials Shows. 41. Using your toe for support and not getting called on it. 42. Blowing people’ mind. 43. Blowing your own mind. 44. The Family Pi. 45. Indoor events. 46. Riders with SPD pedals. 47. Dirt Rag, for their trialsin colum. 48. Pocessing a copy of OTM #1. 49. Yeti. 50. Megamo. 51. Petr Kraus. 52. Girls who ride trials. 53. Spain. 54. Chech riders who used to beat world class riders on homemade bikes. 55. John Tomac, when he used to ride trials. 56. Jeff Lenosky’s web-site. 57. Robin Coope. 58. Trials videos. 59. Traveling to a trials event in a foreign country. 60. Gaining confidence and self esteem from riding trials. 61. Breaking a ribbon. 62. Loosing a competition in the last section. 63. Dabbing. 64. Dabbing in the easiest part of the section. 65. Being the only rider to clean a certain section. 66. Winning price money. 67. Riding over a wet car. 68. Magura. 69. Hanging with your friends. 70. Working on your bike all night. 71. Breaking pieces off your neighbours wall. 72. Joseph Dressler. 73. Kevin Norton, US national champ in 1985 + 86. 74. Motorama. 75. Backwheelhops. 76. Roadtrips. 77. Building a section. 78. Andy Grayson. 79. Having competed in any trials event in the 80’s. 80. Haro. 81. Cosmopolitan Motors. 82. Riding with any pro rider. 83. Watching a World Round. 84. Becoming friends with riders from around the world. 85. Stockbike trials. 86. Doug White. 87. Uni seats. 88. Bunnyhopping over 40 inches. 89. Monty skin suits. 90. Jordi Tarres on a bicycles. 91. Pic-nic tables. 92. Rockring. 93. Not complaining to a trials organizer or checker. 94. Urban trials. 95. The way your bike feels when you launch over a gap. 96. Ridget forks. 97. Visualizing a move before you actually do it. 98. Working in a bike shop. 99. Getting your picture in OTM published. 100. Knowing your limits. 101. Crying when you dab. 102. Riding without a helmet. 103. Trials posters. 104. Joey Hayes. 105. Meeting the Martin’s. 106. Entering a competition. 107. TV shows about trials. 108. Hopping up a set of stairs. 109. Doing a 10 miles ride on a trials bike. 110. Wondering why trials is not more popular. 111. Looking for trials parts on the internet. 112. Wondering how pro’s get sponsored. 113. Any Elite rider. 114. Your first 180 on a cable spool. 115. Gernot Menke for organizing the first ever bicycle trials event in 1974. 116. BMX. 117. J.P. Sickler for his endless efforts to promote trials. 118. Any mountain bike company who sponsors a trials rider. 119. Riding trials in weird places. 120. Watching any top french riders. 121. Crashing, getting up and trying it again. 122. Crashing, getting up and not trying it again. 123. Long finger gloves. 124. Marc Brooks. 125. Drilling holes in your bike to save weight. 126. Making your own rockring. 127. Judging a trials competition. 128. To deal with nervousness in a competition. 129. To get blisters on your hands. 130. To be on Japan’s SuperTrialsRider TV show. 131. To ride in the snow. 132. To take a safety dab. 133. Not to take it all too serious. 134. Making a living of trials riding. 135. Teaching a kid the basics. 136. Converting your friends BMX or mountain bike into a trials bike. 137. Putting on your own trials event. 138. Riding over your own car. 139. Storing your bike in your bed room. 140. Sidehops. 141. Sidehops to backwheel. 142. Being the only trials rider in your area. 143. Moto-Trials. 144. Making your own trials course in your backyard. 145. Missing a day in school because of a trials event. 146. Having your parents come watch you at a trials event. 147. The first time you pulled off three front wheel hops. 148. The following day when you couldn’t do any front wheel hops anymore. 149. Flying somewhere with your bike. 150. Taking your trials bike on a family vacation. 151. Getting an autograph from your trials rider hero. 152. Subscribing to OTM, instead of always reading your friends issue. 153. Getting chased by a dog, and actually scaring him away by doing a few 180’s. 154. Slipping a pedal. 155. The feeling when you break one of your own personal records. 156. Jim Trigonis. 157. Montesita, the first production trials bikes around 1981. 158. Not to secretly preride or practice the actual sections before a competition. 159. Doing a trials riding show. 160. Riding infront of spectators. 161. Crashing infront of spectators, and not caring about it. 162. Riding on public domain, like pic-nic tables, and actually trying not to damage them. 163. Not getting busted while riding with Rick Hope. 164. Baggy pants. 165. Breaking a frame and actually getting it warranteed. 166. Walking a section. 167. Not yelling at a judge for an unfair call. 168. Landing so hard that one sees stars. 169. Low tire pressure. 170. Buying your first real trials bike. 171. Girls who ride trials. 172. Dropping off a 10 foot wall. 173. Speedtrials. 174. Grinding your rims for better braking. 175. Cleaning a section.

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You're slacking with your social media jobs, Chai. I'll let you off this time.

Enter here. ENTER ME. See you all there troops!

Do they not know who Danny Macaskill is??!!

Updated a few bits. New wheels. 88ep. 80x40 stem. 203 rear rotor instead of 180. Padded saddle. Orange grips - Not sure yet on those.

Mart is a born presenter. So cool seeing those drop offs too.

Wee Jamie is rippin it!

Its a crying shame but you'd be doing well to get £500 for it. Its certainly worth that anyway! Forks are Ashton or Base forks.

Joined up when Scotland got internet.

This thread wont make you feel as bad....

Bit of tape, 1 or 2 layers on the back of each pad. Wrap the tape over the edge of the pad but be careful not to put the tape on the pad material itself. Can use electrical tape or similar. The piston beds itself into the tape and it stops the nocking...in most cases. Have fun trying.

Camping gear? Tait in Fort William

This is still on my radar. Been super busy being cool'n'that so will get on it asap. Got an idea.

When Monty and Inspired are life.

Any differences can be checked by opening the Tarty bikes web site and doing a comparison. Easy peasy ma man.

Order new spacer kit, then find my old ones. Oh well haha, spares'r'us.

Bring Donny back for the gears one! haha. I'm hearing from Gordy that he is coming.