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TGS is the name given to a type of riding. It was once called 'street', but after years of confusion between one type of street (24" bikes, with seats, more of a bmx style etc) someone came up with the name TGS and it stuck.

'TGS' is kind of a pisstake, implying that all they do is taps gaps and sidehops. In reality there's a lot more to that type of riding. TGS is going big. Just pulling off one move (a gap or a tap etc) rather than doing lines and usually not caring about their style.

A perfect example of TGS is CLS, Niel Tunnicliffe, Damon Watson.

There a lot of controversy over TGS, some people think it's not how trials should rode even though TGS riders are pushing themselves and their bikes to the very maximum.

cheers, so there for danny s is one of those ben l is one of those?

and whats a tap?

surly theres not much more to trials than them three moves?

A tap is there you're going to backwheel a big wall, you let the front wheel hit the wall to help you gain some hight, it's usually considered a stock only move, but you do see some mod riders doing it.

TGS riders will also do big drops, gaps to front wheels, wheel swaps, stright to backwheel (without the tap) etc.

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The thing I don't like about TGS is what you see from the videos which is a lack of creativity for connecting moves together.

That said, I showed a dude, dunno if he'd call himself a TGS rider, a place, and he saw a drop-gap that'd never even occur to me. Partially because it's MASSIVE!

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TGS isn't really about being creative though. It's about going big. It's like telling a 100m sprinter to be more creative and just stop running from start to finish and full speed becuase it's boring, where as you should be looking at the absolute perfect technique and ability to be able to run that distance in 9.2 seconds.

The guy you rode with wasn't being creative as such with the gap he saw, it's just that most average riders wouldn't see it as a gap becuase it was probably stupidly big.

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Yeah i agree, but i'm comparing to street riders. Not only do they find more creative lines, they also find creative ways to ride them.

...and usually on creative bikes. :giggle:

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TGS is the name given to a type of riding. It was once called 'street', but after years of confusion between one type of street (24" bikes, with seats, more of a bmx style etc) Ali C and IOLO came up with the name TGS and it stuck.

I would say what I feel about TGS, but I had better not :P

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The thing with 'TGS' or whatever is that no matter how much people whine about doing lines there really isn't always that many places to do decent lines everywhere, round here the majority of the riding spots are literally just a wall at the side of the road and nothing more. Yeah lines do look good but single moves do as well.

If you have a video full of lines and nowt else everyone loves it, if you have a video with a mixture of TGS and lines in it everyone just focuses on the TGS and says its shit and needs to be more varied and all that garb. No one can ever win.

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The thing with 'TGS' or whatever is that no matter how much people whine about doing lines there really isn't always that many places to do decent lines everywhere, round here the majority of the riding spots are literally just a wall at the side of the road and nothing more. Yeah lines do look good but single moves do as well.

If you have a video full of lines and nowt else everyone loves it, if you have a video with a mixture of TGS and lines in it everyone just focuses on the TGS and says its shit and needs to be more varied and all that garb. No one can ever win.

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I don't really know why people are so negative about TGS, i suppose it's just your view on it so i'll tell you my view. ;)

I think natural is aload of shit, and i like TGS personally. :P

wouldn't say it's sh*t, ultimate challenge ona bike! same as TGS, just really repetitive.

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I think natural can be shit if you have shit natural, but if you can ride beast natural then is uuuuber fun!

Kinda the same with street, but I still don't get the appeal of sidehopping the same wall over and over and over and ov......

My last local street ride was with Matt Smith and Little Sam. we rode for a couple of hours yet all I saw them do was just sidehops, just seems a bit weird they choose to do only 1% of what trials is.

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I think natural can be shit if you have shit natural, but if you can ride beast natural then is uuuuber fun!

Very true

What i don't like about TGS is just how repetitive it is. When you watch Damon W, sure you think "wowza", but after a while it's all just the same.

Where as in street, you can look for obstacles and find dozens of ways to ride them and it just looks a lot better.

As for lines, they're the best.

Actually, you can get creative on natural just because there is tonnes of lines

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But it would be boring if everyone rode the same way.

If every video that was released was like that, then everyone would get bored and the responces would become negative again.

At the end of the day just do what you enjoy, be it natural, bmxy street, TGS, or just throw stupid labels in the bin and ride the damn bike how you want to.

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