Jeremy Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) Anybody here ride old school trials. I mean really old school the same as mc. trials from the sixties but on bikes instead. We´re a small group in Denmark that have started the `sport´ up again. When I was a kid in the sixties we used to cycle out to mc. trials and training sessions and be inspired. We cycled home and built our own sections in the local woods or on nearby slagheaps. Of course the homemade bikes were very different then and the sections were built with this in mind. Even so the fun is still the same despite the sections being more demanding now. It was never a recognized or commercial sport but flourished amongst the schoolkids of Northern England. Many of the schoolkids went on to the `proper´ mc trials when they were sixteen and could legally ride a 250cc. trials mc. Edited February 5, 2016 by Jeremy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted February 5, 2016 Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 Is that not just trials? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted February 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2016 Do you mean modern mc. trials, sixties mc. trials or modern cycle trials ? Modern mc.trial and modern cycle trial are very similar. Old, old school cyle trials is pretty much the same as sixties mc. trials except the obstacles are smaller and the water´s not as deep. More cycling than hopping. Check out `sixties mc. trial´ on youtube Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC12345678910 Posted February 6, 2016 Report Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) @Jeremy I think you're on you own as far this forum goes, anyone flicking through these pages on the whole isn't going to have a birthday in anything past the 80's/90's, let alone know about motor trials in the 60's, even through I'm only just 23 I would count myself as the exception, as I love history and old bikes/motorbikes and would love to own/ride a well specced pre65 trials bantam or similar. That's not to say I don't believe you, as I marshalled with a guy on the isle of man who upon recognising what my inspired (my profile picture) was, and is used for; started telling me the story of how in the early to mid 60's he and his mates used to put cut down lambretta or vespa or mobylette forks into scrap pre-war bicycles, thus inventing the bicycle trial bike and biketrial as a sport, set out some home made sections in the back field and try and emulate their heroes like Sammy Miller, and later on people like Mick Andrews and Yrjo Vesterinen etc. - not least as this was around the time period where the Isle of man hosted the ISDT 3 times in ten years. I know it was more of a speed event but he said it was inspirational none the less. Given the absolutely wonderful, mystical, un-portrayable vibe the island has and that this guy was manx born and bred, I had no reason to not to 100% believe him and stand there drinking in the oral history. For all I know know he could have been an to someone like Steve Colley or David & Juan Knight... The island is that sort of place. Ciaran. Edited February 6, 2016 by CC12345678910 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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