BikeTrial Federation Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 As the heading - Don't know what it'll be like, but thought I'd let those of you at home know!Barbara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigMackay Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 I'l be watching it anyway, got nothing better to do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lankyri Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 im waiting got a bacon sandwitch and bottle of redbull, may actually motivate me to go out riding today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lankyri Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 wow that was loads of footage of trials did like the girls front wheel though that looked pretty cool may go out for xc ride instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishayton Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 5 seconds of benito. yay...... they even got his name wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rathergoodpie Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 That was f**king pathetic. The one shot we get to get trials into the public eye and the BBC balls it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 5 seconds of benito. yay...... they even got his name wrong haha yep saw that. Called him 'charrell ros' or something.The commentating on the downhilling was absolutely appalling, I'm pretty sure the majority of the public would find people hopping up crazy high stuff more entertaining than riding down technical hills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 The commentating on the downhilling was absolutely appalling, I'm pretty sure the majority of the public would find people hopping up crazy high stuff more entertaining than riding down technical hills.I'm not. Especially if their clip selection was as boring as it was in the two clips they actually showed - one was benito back-hopping for about 10 seconds for a sidehop. Sooo boring. DH is easier to explain to people who don't know about it, and it looks more exciting anyway. But still, two clips is a piss-take. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Token Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Okay well it's obviously personal preference but I tend to go on the reactions you get when your riding trials (people seemed to be pretty impressed) compared to riding downhill (looks like anyone could give it a go).There's abit of information on the Fort William World Championship 2007 website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigMackay Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 They did say Benito's name right in it, they said his full name though and yeah there was about 10 seconds of trials and that was it. The downhill riding was quite good but commentators got annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossMcd Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 I was there and im not sure benito was having a good day lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Sorry for getting everyones hopes up anyway.I havn't seen it yet. Sounds wank though. I thought it might be too good to be true, as always is with BBC sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenLeacock™ Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Expected better.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMunn Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 The 4X looked mad! Hopefully i'll be up there in years to come... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob87 Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 I was there in the flesh and it was awesome, the atmosphere was great.Weather was crap for spectators but it made for an amazing show from both the trials and downhill riders.Met a few of the riders and got to see some real nice bikes aswell as some nice women Talked with Ashton for a bit, i must say he is the most down to earth rider i have ever met, seem's to ride just for the passion of riding and nothing else. Thanks for having the time to talk MartynIt's a shame the BBC left out what was some of the most impressive riding of the event, but hell most people were just watching to see the big jumps.Thanks to the staff, organiser's and competitor's for putting on a great show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lankyri Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 it was good to see biking on tv though and it did get me motivated to go riding but was a bit disappointed about the whole english side that only one person from england got a medal and that was the a silver DH for the women, shame peaty couldnt be in 100% health and he lost his seat lolwho won the trials for men btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Didnt Gee Atherton get a bronze in the mens downhill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigMackay Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Yeah he did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Didnt Gee Atherton get a bronze in the mens downhill?Yeah, and a couple of the Juniors did OK, we got Gold in Junior Men's DH (Ruaridh Cunningham) and Silver in the Junior women's (Katy Curd). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted September 10, 2007 Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Yeh, that was absolutely f**king dire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 I recorded the program because I had better things to do on a sunny Sunday afternoon than sit inside watching TV.I too would have liked to have seen a longer section for trials, they may as well have not bothered with any trials at all.However, I thought the rest of the program was great, I even think the commentating was good. They could have done with a few more camera's covering more of the DH course as they did manage to miss a load of the crashes that led to riders missing out on medal positions, however I thought this was a minor complaint considering there was actually 2 hours of Mountain Biking on UK television!You need to remember that trials isn't the only cycling discipline and that trials is no where near as big or well followed as DH 4X or XC. It is a fast growing sport and with television companies putting in effort to produce 2 hours worth of Mountain Bike coverage hopefully next time trials will get a longer section on the program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totaltrials Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 (edited) It's too complicated for most people watching on tv to understand, obviously it's not going to be complicated if it's explained, but that would probably take a lot more viewing time, to people on tv it must have just looked like people backhopping on a bike and that's it, to document the competition like with the DH it would be pretty hard aswell as each rider doing 6 sections twice.With downhill and XC its easy to follow on tv, it's simply who has the fastest time and it's one run, so for trials to be properly televised I'd imagine it to be pretty difficult.Shame there wasn't a bit more to watch. Two measly clips is all I saw. Better than nothing though. Edited September 12, 2007 by totaltrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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