Jake. Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 Back when I was into mountain biking and freeride I saw Jeff Lenosky and Ryan leech in New World Dissorder 1-4 and was hooked. Started back hopping and and sidehopping on my 35lb fully, eventually snapped a seatstay. Somehow I got it warranted Lucky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilmac Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 watched Danny MacAskill in the summer and bought a bike like 3 weeks later then got another for xmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruairidh m Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 I got into trials by finding a video linked to something I was watching and thought it was awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt.price Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 i got into trials when i was into mountain biking and i search for it on youtube and this video came up ever since that i loved watching it , at a motorbike trials competition at my house m i saw a kid on a trials bike , i had a go on it , loved it , got a onza blade the following christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake. Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Wow Danny plays a big role in bringing in trials bikers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benthedog Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Yup he does brought me in too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOBY-E Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 i got into it when i first saw the hibernaton dvd wi wayne momet and danny holroyd cant remember who else was in it thou. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bundee80 Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I first got into MTB in 1994. Rode for about a year and in the meantime, picked up the movie, "Tread." Epic. That was the first time I had seen Hans Rey or trials. Rode pretty seriously for a year or two after that, getting picked up by a demo team. Once I started driving and smoking, things slowed down. I had a couple of resurgence moments when I met Reed Merschat when he started filming "Revolution." I was with him and Ryan Leech on the ride in Portland. (Still bummed I didn't make the final cut.) I pretty much didn't ride for 10 years between 1999-2009, but I always had a stock bike built just in case. I'd go ride randomly about once a year when the itch came about. This latest itch came from seeing D-Mac's April video on an aviation forum actually back last summer. Thankfully, I actually had the funds to get back into it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japslap Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I got into Trials after watching tricks and stunts, granted it was nearly 10 years after its release and by that time everyone had stopped using cross country bikes and moved to a trials specific frame but there was something about the fact that you could still do relatively amazing things on what seemed "normal" bikes that drew me in, I often still find that if I'm practising on a trials specific frame that on lookers and the general public will say that's a trick bike (meaning that's how he can do that) but when your on a bike that resembles something more people regard as a normal bike there more impressed. I started to improve control on a bicycle in any given aspect of any bicycle genre! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buff_bikes Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I got in to trials by my friends and watched shows and that. I was BMXing and dirt jumping then moved on to trials best think iv done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franksx2005 Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 About 10 years i was given chainspotting and dirty tricks and cunning stunts for christmas. I watched them and i was hooked the martin's sections in chainspotting blew me away i had never seen such bike control and i was hooked. Same mate, i remember watching the video and thinking how they did it, i was amazed, then me and a friend tried it on normal mountain bikes with not much success. I learnt a bit in the end, not much though lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 About 10 years i was given chainspotting and dirty tricks and cunning stunts for christmas. I watched them and i was hooked the martin's sections in chainspotting blew me away i had never seen such bike control and i was hooked. I was same, into a bit of dual slalom for ages then my cousin got Chainspotting on video and our mtb world changed! 10 years later and I'm still crap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franksx2005 Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 I was same, into a bit of dual slalom for ages then my cousin got Chainspotting on video and our mtb world changed! 10 years later and I'm still crap! Thats funny, im probably crap too, i havnt rode in 4 years. i wanna dig up them vids now, will be a blast from the past lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jitters Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 Never heard a thing about it. GF took me to a small demo near her house in North Carolina (last one at that location, sadly). Few days later started searching for trials on youtube. POOF! Got interested. Funniest part about it is I drag "that" bike everywhere instead of riding XC with her. I totally blame her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt tomlinson Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 i remember i bought a specialized hardrock pro the summer before my senior year with an aim towards eventually mastering north shore riding. i live in michigan so naturally there isn't a whole lot of north shore riding. so i did some downhill stuff and xc mostly on it. in the meantime i searched through google video and youtube for videos of people riding their bikes and i came unto some trials stuff. naturally it blew my mind, but i never thought i could do it. that year my school let a jonathan poole a local trials rider in on fridays to teach kids how to ride. i was infatuated with the sport from there onwards. at first i still had my north shore kick so unfortunately i kept riding hardtail mtbs around thinking i would progress better on those for some reason. eventually i decided i actually wanted to trials and i bought my first bike this last september. since then it has been a blast and i haven't looked back since. fun fact: the first bike i ever saw pedal kicked onto stuff is now mine. the story goes like so, we were taking our class picture in the gym and on the other side is j.p just messing around on his bike (at the time his) and some of the obstacles he brought he pedal kicks up unto box across and then off and then the whole senior class starts in rapid applause ( a class of 500 mind you). i now own that brisa and i can probably do that same move already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revelation Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 I was reading through 2007 Norco bikes brocher I was looking looking at the freeride bikes at the time there was this "Trials" bike section in there with Ryan Leech in the back ground. After that I looked up "trials" on the internet, I found the ObservedTrials.Net I found out how gay trials was, then I fell in love!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashsaxton Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 My first time watching a pro was on the tricks and stunts video. The first time i ever rode a tirals bike was around 8 years ago, it was a Monty, I can't remember what model, i can just remember about going over the bars! it was my first time ever riding with Magura rim brakes! lol As I said in my other post in this forum, in the years ive not been riding a bike, the sport has changed so much! The only makes of trials bike id ever heard of was Monty and Megamo! now there are loads of different makes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexxRogers Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 I got into trials by typing in ''BMX'' into Youtube, and a video of Craig Lee Scott came up, so I then researched into what riding it was, as I knew it wasn't BMX, then carried on from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 It was 12 years ago, and it was really organic. I was 11 and my Dad had bought me a Marin something-or-other to ride the downhill NPS series on the next year. We couldn't get to good trails very often so a lot of the time I'd just be playing about in technical sections of trails in the local woods. When I wasn't doing that I was out the front of our house doing wheelies and learning bunnyhops and stuff. We started buying MBUK and realised that what we were doing was practically the beginnings of trials. I wrapped the Marin round a tree a few weeks later during a quite 'spirited' run and we decided that actually we preferred mucking about doing tricks and stuff anyway, so we swapped all our other bikes for 2 'trials' bikes. By trials bikes I mean rigid steal 13/14" bikes with all the outer front rings taken off, DCDs, 600mm long risers, 50mm stems. I kept that bike for a few years, then started building up my Echo ES4 (google them kids, one of the first 'proper' looking trials bikes... and I'm almost certain I own the only one that hasn't snapped...). By the time I'd built that I couldn't be arsed to ride any more... That was about 6 years ago. Still on this here forum and keep meaning to get back out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamant jamesie Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 1 of my best friends Ryan Hill showed me up on my gt rucus and ever since i wanted to do wat he done so i started on a dirt jump bike and the got a dmr and moved on to and adamant a1 stock and now riding gu le lolzz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeanuckleJive Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 started off at a motorbike show, I saw a moto trials demo and just loved it, was obsessed with it for aaaaages but couldn't afford a motorbike, so I started looking at biketrials instead, Took my old 24" apollo mountain bike, lowered the seat, stuck riser bars on it, V brakes and some cheap onza cranks, spent months and months abusing it, then bought my first mod bike the rest is history and now I come back to trials, everybody is riding 24" bikes with V brakes! I should have patented it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dec Whiteoak Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 i got into trials by a few mates of mine they all did it and ive always wanted to do it but if you want a decent bike you have 2 spend a few hundred easy.then my friend give me his monty 22ti cheap and thats where i started,,,ive met well loads of awesome people through it and i certainly would recomend the sport to everyone.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 been in to mtbing for ages, loved doing tricks on it like a few back wheel hops. It was seeing some of this benito ross crazy stuff that got me going Been at it for nearly a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew_coggan Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 I got in to it because i saw people doing it in Lincoln and i thought that looks cool and abit different. I was a skater before and was getting abit bored of it so moved to trials and have never looked back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrimmy Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Same mate, i remember watching the video and thinking how they did it, i was amazed, then me and a friend tried it on normal mountain bikes with not much success. I learnt a bit in the end, not much though lol. no efin way lol i stil got my aston hawys dvs i swear there gona be worth somethin 1 day maybe not but fuk it i still watch em lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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