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If you have some basic DIY skills you can build yourself something like this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cmn29cMBNFU Also known as skinny lines.

I'd start by moving the rail low to the ground to reduce the risk of injuring yourself when you fall off. Once some confidence is gained increase the height of the rail. For specific technique you need to say how you intend to ride the rail. Riding along the length, balancing, or jumping up to rear onto it then off, or both, or what?

I briefly tried some old chicken wire I found round the back of the shed but the staples from my staple gun weren't tough enough and just made a mess. Anyone know what do they use at Radical?

I'd really like to ride year round in my little patch in the top of the back garden. Obviously in the Winter it starts getting too muddy, and with the pallets out there year round, they're soaking up water and getting very slippery. It's too late right now to do much, but for when the weather gets better I'm looking for a few tips please if anyone reading this has any? Creocote on pallets? Does it have any undesirable side effects like sticking to tires in hot weather, and/or chemically reacting/melting tires etc ? Or is a cheap outdoor paint the way to go? Any recommendations or tips for what to look for or to avoid? Does mixing in sand for grip work or does it just get rubbed off by tires too easily etc. Would also like to surface it some how so it's not so ultra muddy. I guess throwing down a load of smashed up hardcore if I could get my hands on some would work. Might be ripping up some existing patio tiles from elsewhere in garden. Not looking for perfectly level surface, not fussed much about aesthetics, but prefer minimum work required...

Not necessary until after the bleed nipple is done up, forget the bleed block isn't in there, and repeatedly pull the lever wondering why there's no pressure!!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIV-uYIk80/

Amazing dream this morning. Dreamt I could manual as far as I wanted to. As smooth as Duncan Shaw. Alas so far from reality, but still, was a good dream.

I thought of suggesting EBC Red pads too. Give them a try and maybe save some cash for decent hydraulics later down the line.

Liked your 'do dumb things that make you smile' post on instagram so turned it into a gif.

Trifles for the forum. Who can't agree with that?

There's lots of help on youtube to get you started, check out Ali Clarkson and Super Rider channels on youtube especially for breakdowns and tips for what to learn. I started trials in my 40s and yes it is a steep learning curve with a lot of frustration. There's a few other older guys riding trials too, check out BackyardTrials and Todd on Bikes on instagram. Good luck!

They're both really nice bikes. Going by a quick glance at Tartybikes website, there's a 1 kg weight difference in favour of the Fourplay.

Come to say the same, it's the tricky nadgery setups that's the killer. After a couple of years of trying to learn trials I thought I was better than white level (based purely on the size of some of the obstacles) when I had a go at the comp at the Bike Trials Academy Weekender. Downgraded myself to white within moments. Quite humbling for a forty something to be riding alongside 5 and 6 year olds! There were still sections that easily beat me too. To be fair however, I've been a very slow learner at trials and had very little bike control at that time and you've definitely got a lot further than I had at that point.

Still some crazy shit going on in that video even after seeing everything that has come since :-D

Not posted anything on here for a while. Still riding. Still slow progress. Still some issues with my shoulder but I'm working on that improving mobility and strength there. I'm a mid/late forties rider still at beginner level after three and a half years. Most of my riding now is in the garden with limited space so working a lot on handling the bike at slow-to-no speed. Here's an image from today during a quick lunch time session of what I was doing. I don't work so much any more trying to go bigger, so much so that I don't often do anything higher than 3 pallets! Still takes me a lot of effort to do the small stuff like in this photo. Once I'd got on the bike and manoeuvred it into position to get the front up on that ladder/beam I found it very difficult to maintain balance without readjustments that caused collisions with the obstacles either side of me. And also difficult to get the front wheel up from standstill onto the obstacle without overshooting myself too much. I only made it round a couple of times in half an hour or so. I think I'd be more confident on the bigger stuff knowing I have the bike control there. Edit: just a couple more points to add: One of the things I've been thinking about is tension vs relaxation. We get told to relax on the bike so as to not be wooden, but at the same time, don't we need a certain degree of tension to resist the forces acting against us to upset our balance? So there's the need to identify how much I'm tensing up unnecessarily and how much more I might be able to relax. Too much tension increases the physically intensity of effort required which increases the over-correction errors. How much could effort be reduced by? How much of that is down to age is another thought that crosses my mind. Watching videos of some of the older riders, I see an 'old man thing' about them, and see it in my own videos from time to time too. I'm not yet 50, and lucky in that I've not really got any real physical health issues. Massive dislike of pain through injury and inability to cope with it though! Scraped a small amount of skin off my little finger this afternoon brushing past a stiff wire fence, enough to stop a ride chasing my kids round the car park! Also still riding by myself for 99.9% of the time so no feedback from other riders about what I'm doing, and not getting to watch other riders in real life are both contributing factors to slow progress. So that's why this post. Thanks for reading!

I bought a full sus XC bike from Canyon in 2012 so it's a no from me :-D As well as thinking most Canyons look ugly, and most carbon bikes look ugly.

Shit BMX? On yer pogo stick!

Not sure if this is BMX influenced by street trials or BMX that influences street trials?

Don't you just hate it when you upload your commute to Strava. Click save, and Strava has become unavailable. Grrrrr! Especially when I had managed to appropriate Public Enemy lyrics to embody my ride! #stravawanker #nobodycares

Hope you're doing a vid on it :-)

Okay on to the important stuff: why has he got inner tube wrapped around the rear hub? It's not like a chainstay that gets slapped by the chain repeatedly.

I've watched this a few times but that crash where you flop like a rag doll over the concrete block I've rewatched even more! You saw what's coming, let go (as in not tensed up) and let things run their course.

I'm on hopium that 3000 chihuahuas will do good :-D

Don't know why they talk about haptics. Unless lost in translation, and meant ergonomics. Anyway just thought it would be of interest here knowing the popularity of Magura brakes amongst trials riders. I don't use Magura myself.

Saw these on SingleTrackWorld. "In addition to optimized haptics, additional functions and better durability, we have also completely redesigned the hose bend protection." https://www.oakcomponents.de/BrakeLevers/