ogre Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 i'm stealing from pink bike; but what product, event or trend has had the greatest effect upon the sport this millennium? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 The internet. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joaovidal12 Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Maggies, perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsMatt Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 deng 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 I would say Danny Macaskill should be one of them. I know there are other great riders, but he was "the one" who popularized the trials 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamilyBiker Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 hub dynamos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Monty, onza and deng. More so Deng though, he brought light durable equipment, in the early days anyway to the masses. Bike trials in the UK wouldn't be what it is now without onza. Monty who started the whole thing. It can't be put down to any one innovation in my mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilu Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Balloon tires and getting rid of engine out of motorcycles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Balloon tires and getting rid of engine out of motorcycles. Read the question again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevind Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 rotating your bars so that they are level with your bottom head race! Seriously Danny for street trials and trials bikes with seats on them on a world wide scale gets my vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 If Danny wasn't around trials wouldn't be that different. Think of all the French dudes with the awesome street style. Oh wait. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 If Danny wasn't around trials wouldn't be that different. Think of all the French dudes with the awesome street style. Oh wait. it would not be different by that much as we have people like Ali C, but trials would be less know and less popular for sure And trials does need a massive popularity incrase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclip Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Rockman bringing in horizontal 135 dropouts started a massive trend for future frames. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Dale Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 hope pro 2 maybe?? ive had mine nearly 6 years and not a single skip!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny--Trials Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 It was definitely Ot Pi. He revolutionized trials by climbing many stairs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dngr2self Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 The this millennium part of the question actually makes it really hard to answer. I'd agree that Mr Macaskill (if a person can be classed as an innovation counts) has probably done more than anyone or any brand to bring trials to wider public,along with his sponsors. As far as aactual innovation goes I don't think I can narrow it down to one thing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEON Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Maguras, you younger lot have no idea what shit we had to work with in the mid/late 90's! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Dale Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Maguras, you younger lot have no idea what shit we had to work with in the mid/late 90's! i feel ur pain dude i started in 96! v brakes wer still shit then hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joaovidal12 Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 it would not be different by that much as we have people like Ali C, but trials would be less know and less popular for sure And trials does need a massive popularity incrase I really respect and like Danny Mac, but he does not portrait the real Trials riding with the recent videos. General population is still very unfamiliar with normal trial riding. «Oh I know, trial is what that english bloke does, what is his name? Danny something ... Can you do frontflips too?» Ali C is less flashy and less know to the public, but he rise the bar with techy lines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dngr2self Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Maguras, you younger lot have no idea what shit we had to work with in the mid/late 90's! Maguras were out in the nineties. The pads weren't very good though. I think v's might have actually been later than maggys but I'm not sure when the trials community caught on to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEON Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) We got our Maguras in about 97/98, and the red kool stop pads definitely made them better than any of the V brakes back then, there were no soft v pads and no one was grinding rims, we were barely using tar by then! Discs weren't good enough for trials, plus people have been using Maguras for a good 18-20 years now (despite them getting worse) I don't think there's a product more synonymous with trials, even if they were never trials specific. Edited June 11, 2015 by LEON 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dngr2self Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 True. They've become trials specific now I guess because who actually uses magura rim brakes other then trials riders? There will be people I know but not on a large scale for a specific genre of riding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 They have them on a few hybrids, and on time trial bikes albeit in a different mechanical form. I had my first set of maggies way back in 97, green frogs with cnc boosters and kool stops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 True. They've become trials specific now I guess because who actually uses magura rim brakes other then trials riders? There will be people I know but not on a large scale for a specific genre of riding. Large enough though for Magura to totally not give a shit about how bad the 2011 brakes were for trials because they're selling shitloads of them as OEM brakes for trekking bikes, E-bikes and a bunch of other "No fun at all" kinds of bikes. I expect those disciplines are the reason they still make them as from Magura's point of view, the only warranties they're likely to get are from trials bikes and I don't think they'd make anywhere near the amount they do on rim brake sales from disc brake sales so it's probably just more hassle for them. It was effort for TB to get Magura spares from them before which I'd assume is partially down to people riding other types of bikes just fitting them then never doing anything to them - still see a few people rolling around Cardiff with original raceline yellow Maguras that look like they're all exactly as they were out of the factory. It would be interesting to see what the actual split was though between trials and non-trials use Seems like stronger, seatless frames only really came about in the early-2000's (the Levelboss being launched was a pretty big deal, especially with how bulletproof they were for a relatively good price compared to other high end frames at the time), so I'd say that was a pretty major innovation, especially for 26" bikes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old boy chez Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Magura's and bash guard for 22t chain rings... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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