Is Biketrials Still A Starter For Motorbike Trials?

[Trialsben]

I'm just wondering if the majority of people on here have any interest in Mototrials and plan to use Biketrials as a stepping stone or if they consider it a seperate discipline and have no interest in Moto at all?

When I first started riding many moons ago it was because it was as close as I could get to Mototrials at the time!, as soon as I could afford my own bike, that was it, pretty much stopped riding Biketrials. Most of the techniques carried across and a lot of the sections were very similar with Muddy bankings and camber's used instead of the different variations of rocks that seem to be the norm in comps now.

There now seems to be very little mention of Mototrials on here and don't really see many people making any kind of comment on it so I'm interested to know if its something most people on here still aspire to or if Biketrials is now such a seperate and different discipline that it has it's own very seperate following that have little interest in any other form of trials?

[Redneck]

im a moto trials guy. i ride a 2002 Gas Gas 280 pro

i have found that i can transfer skills from the bike to the moto and vice versa but i mainly ride bike trials because its fun.

[tiger rider]

[quote name='Trialsben'

[Simpson]

Most riders on here will ride biketrials, untill they are 17 and get a car.

I personally have never ridden a moto-trials bike, because I can't afford one, I don't have a trailer and I can't be assed to drive somewhere to do it. With my bike I can chuck it in the car, be at 5 different good spots within 5 mins and ride all night long

[Muel]

In my experience, most people who ride both started with motorbike trials and got a biketrials bike second.

I did, my mate did, my brother did, my other mate did and his uncle did. I don't know anyone who rode biketrials first!

[quote name='Trialsben'

Push bike trails riding is good for moto trails because it takes a bit more skill to ride a push bike and when u master oush bike trials it will be quite easyer to get out of tricky situasions in moto trails.

You got that totally backwards, it takes just as much skill, if not more to get over the same obstacles, and on a push bike you just get off and try again when you get stuck, with a motorbike, you can't get out of tricky situations easily at all.