Aidan97 Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 just out of curiosity how much would the likes of benito and gilles be earning from trials? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Mega buck$, along the lines of a pretty washed out premier league football player. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danrobinson Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 i would probably say £15,000 per ride or something along those lines i think 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Gething Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 i would probably say £15,000 per ride or something along those lines Lol, Gilles Coust recieved 850 euros for winning the world cup round in Aalter last month. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave33 Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Lol, Gilles Coust recieved 850 euros for winning the world cup round in Aalter last month. Depends if you count prize money I suppose, 850 euros for a months work isn't much though! I'd say it's less than what you might think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnyBoy Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 I'd say given the relatively small trials market when compared to other sports, my guess is that the wages would be pretty modest... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake. Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 I reckon Danny Macaskill makes the most of all the trials riders, he's seen on telly quite a lot (considering the type of riding he does) and probably makes most of his money from doing adverts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liam n Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 I did some googling the other day. Ryan leech earned a total of £2 million from his career as a professional trials rider. consider how many videos, films , tv programmes, demos, speeches, coaching sessions etc. he did. I don't think any proffesional trials rider nowadays will come close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmertrials Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Crazy considering he's a pile of crap 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 i would probably say £15,000 per ride or something along those lines No chance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andeee Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Danny Mac and Laszlo hegedus have got to be on a high wage to say they are both riding for two seperate energy drink companies such as red bull and monster. You could imagine how many promotions and sponsors those companies will support for a lot a of big major events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Danny Mac and Laszlo hegedus have got to be on a high wage to say they are both riding for two seperate energy drink companies such as red bull and monster. You could imagine how many promotions and sponsors those companies will support for a lot a of big major events. Considering the amount of Monster logos he has plastered all over himself/everything he seems to own, it'd be interesting to know what that Laszlo dude's actually getting out of that deal... I did some googling the other day. Ryan leech earned a total of £2 million from his career as a professional trials rider. consider how many videos, films , tv programmes, demos, speeches, coaching sessions etc. he did. I don't think any proffesional trials rider nowadays will come close. Sponsorship works differently these days though, so stuff like photo/video contingency will help rack up a bit more money here and there. I don't really know about the trials side of things, but I know BMX companies have a system where if you get a photo on a website with their logo in you get £X, if you get a photo in a mag with their logo in it's £Y, if you get a cover with their logo it's £Z, and so on. That's usually on top of a form of salary too. Companies like Red Bull are bound to have that sort of thing in place as well. The increase in non-endemic sponsors helps too as that's essentially where the money is. Now that trials is better known it's more marketable and easier to use as a commodity to help advertise stuff, so that's going to increase riders worth. As a loose example, I'd imagine Bessell getting the chance to do some hops for UPS was probably related overall to the increase in exposure trials has had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 I'd love to see a trials event put on to the same scale as one of the world UCI downhill rounds, I reckon there's more money involved in one of those than a "full time" trials rider would earn in a year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manuel Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Crazy considering he's a pile of crap Are you f**king kidding? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmertrials Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Are you f**king kidding? Knew it was coming. No, no I'm not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostrider88 Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Are you f**king kidding? I hope so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeroyHUK Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 i don't like ryan leech either, uses sus forks for a start... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalopS Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 By the time Danny has finished his career I bet he will be able to buy the Isle of Sky and build the first Danny Macaskill theme park! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Jack, I'm gonna have to make an assumption you're fairly young here for that Leech comment - the man's a legend! Sure, he hasn't really 'progressed' much in the last 10 years, but he was riding slack chains when you were in nappies 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmertrials Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 I have to admit, I wouldn't get up a curb on his setup. And he has a huge rep and following. I have his art of trials DVD - dire. But he simply doesn't compare to any modern riders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogre Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 he doesn't ride like modern trials riders, he's distanced himself from it... he uses a bike normal people can associate with, thats why he's able to do the talks and shows and generate the interest cause his riding is almost tangible, if you have a crowd of people watching benito or vincent, their bikes are so foreign that it's hard to relate... plus he's pushing on a bit now and the level of risk that the modern scene has set probably isn't that attractve when what he's doing is working just fine for him. tldr: leave leech alone unless you can ride without correction hops, ever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aener Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Almost tangible? Is that to say he's mostly insubstantial? Haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogre Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 i couldn't think of the right word, but you see leech and you see a normal enough bike, and you can imagnie trials being do-able on your own bike, tangible as opposed to intangible, meaning you can't even touch it, or get close... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aener Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Yeah. I know what you meant, and I can't think of a better word either - it just read funny "Accessible", maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEON Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 You Leech doubters must be young, you have no idea of the impact "revolution" and "Evolve" had when they came out (1998) that for me was the very coolest era of trials. Like others here are saying, people watch Ryan ride & see a mountain bike, everyone's ridden a mountain bike so it's not some alienating weird sight, as opposed to a mod rider in a leotard. Plus he's still more technically skilled than a lot of todays great riders, even if he's not going as big. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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