seaine Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 I was wondering what got you into trials? I was an DH rider but was too young to drive myself to the track at weekend,so i started do track stands and all that stuff. my grandparents lived in Newbury so when i was visiting there one time,i went into the local bike shop and "Tricks and Stunts" was on the TV, I got talking to a lad called Chris who worked there and he showed me his bike,i was hooked from there!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trials hoe Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 because it was different and looked cool as f**k..........in 1999 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miketrials1995 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 I was hooked as soon as I watched Danny macs videos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harmertrials Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Still is different and cool as fuarkkkk. I rode motorbike trials for several years. After a while I started noticing people playing about on trials bikes at comps between sections. Not long after 2 of my cousins from hull got bikes, and I wasn't long behind. Realised how much more I preferred riding bicycles to motorbikes so gave up on enduro and trials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brettoll Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Women.... I mean they go wetter than an otters pocket for a sidehop! But really, it was in the late 90's saw some local lads doing it and thought I would get rid of the BMX and see what it was all about. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny00135 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 The Bitches!! Na I rode moto trials with my Dad for several years.. I ended up coming off the back of it one time and the bike landed pretty badly.. bent the exhaust and destroyed the airbox.. £750 worth of damage.. So my Dad sold It after repairing it (he was thinking about selling it before hand given they were costing too much to keep running) Then one christmas He got me a pedal trials bike (it took months and months of begging) and Ive been hooked since Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew_coggan Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Saw people most weekends doing it when I was in town thought it looked cool,got a bike and started from there 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persistant_itch Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Wanted to take up trials for a few years now, got back into biking after years out because of a DH injury..I wanted a style of riding that didnt depend on other people,or dedicated trails,, because I've no mates into riding bikes, and theres not a massive scene where i live in ireland so basically started watching videos, mainly Ali C and Danny mac, and decided to buy a fourplay and get back out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 (edited) Rode park/Dj for a few years prior to it. Scene was pretty big round my Dads way in Barton Upon Humber, and a few of my mates started getting into it. Dad bought my my first decent frame, a Neon Bow (Had a T-Bird prior to this but rode it very little) and I've been hooked ever since. Literally, I can't go a day without thinking about riding. If Im not riding, Im doing nothing else. Its literally all I do. My wallet has suffered heavily as a result. Loving riding at the moment. I can feel myself improving, becoming more confident and the scenes hopefully going to grow again locally. Got two mates back into it, another's getting his bike sorted, my bro's riding more often again and I'm getting to ride with sound people during my weekends/weekdays off work. Edited April 21, 2013 by Echo Lite 09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Wanking became painful. Need time to regen. Found a bike with no seat. Legit. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake. Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 I think I saw it at an onza trials display in earls court, London, 2009... They were the ones who referred me to this forum. Got a tee signed by scott wilson and a bunch of other names, joe poyzer I think? I think I got an onza rip just before the show so I must have seen an internet video of it somewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkuskaUK Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 Hatred of seats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogre Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 My mate showed me a video after our local dirt jumps were removed by the council. Got my first trials bike for my fifteenth birthday and never looked back... Plus a collosal disregard for my shins and wallet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 Saw Leon hop up a toilet block on southend sea front in 2003/4? Still here nearly 10 years later haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revolver Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 I was blackmailed into it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hI-OOPS-CAPS Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 I saw someone backhopping a Kona and just took it from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamilyBiker Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 ryan leechs sequence in "kranked 5"(or 6?),haha dont even remember which one,but from that on i couldnt resist. was dj´ing and parkriding at those times,but it had to be trials at the end... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Cox Posted April 23, 2013 Report Share Posted April 23, 2013 Seeing Tom Rankin riding his old mission jumping jack waay back in the day. I always wanted one and to be able to ride like him. Finally got a jumpin jack in 2003. Rode for about 6 years with many different bikes/injuries. sold my bike due to epic skintness. Now been riding again for about a month Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted April 23, 2013 Report Share Posted April 23, 2013 I started riding so that I'd have a legitimate reason to join a forum and start arguing with people. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aener Posted April 23, 2013 Report Share Posted April 23, 2013 When I was younger, my friends were all bigger and heavier than I. We used to ride normal crappy bikes around the village, and they all got loads of punctures. I felt super left out so started ramming in to curbs so I got some too. To look like I considered them an inconvenience like my friends seemed to, I had to buy better tubes and tyres to stop it, so I had to go from higher and higher/further and further away to keep getting them. Eventually I realized it was actually kinda fun without getting punctures, so started trying to do cooler stuff - punctures or no. Sorta evolved from there really. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 I was a late bloomer, my first proper trials bike was a merlin, if anyone remembers those, red tomac edition hs33's, panaracer fire Xc tyres. It just kinda escalated from there to the point in my 30's where I have a decent job so I can afford proper gear now that I want, rather than scrimping on secondhand pieces of crap. The first lad I saw doing it was a lad from selby on a monty, but I can't remember his name. He was a very good rider though. I used to do some moto trials as well. But it's the ball ache of having to sort the trailer out and all the other shit that made me stop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andykezzy Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 i started because i wanted a change from dh, and the fact that our dh trails kept gettin wreaked by the forestry, now riding more enduro than dh and im now in love with trials. should have started it long ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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