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Trials Forum Trends


Dan Clark

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I guess this is mostly for older members, but anyway.

Lets try list all the trends of buying stuff and whatever we've seen here on trials forum, you know, the things that at one point everyone had, or wanted, I'll start.

Planet X Zebdi's

Hope Mini's

Maxxis tyres

Avid Mechanical brakes

Weight Saving

Not weight saving

UCI

24"

Fatty R forks

Pazzaz carbon bars

Raceline Maguras

White Maguras

Anything that the tart bought

Post whoring to get the biggest post count

Steel is real

d521's

Monty X-Hydra pads

Who can do the biggest drop

Who can do the biggest sidehop

At the moment, I would say theres

Avid Juicy brakes

Ashton frames

24"

Hope Pro2T hubs

There must be plenty more, post away.

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Long bikes. One day there weren't any, the next everyone was raving about Level bosses, and with good reason.

Warrenties - how to get free stuff when yours breaks, though this was some time ago.

Someone/something being 'sexual'

IRC Tyres

Taboo frames and forks

Making your bike looks more like Ashton's/Hawyes's/Akrigg's/a Tongue's

All bikes - Pashley or otherewise - having the union jack headtube graphics and/or top tube pads

Chopping that little bit of seat tube off above the top tube, and zip tying a saddle on the top

DCDs

Making your own pads

Slamming disc brakes because the pads move a couple of mil and it feels like the wheel is 'rocking' back and forth

Replacing your current bike to one with dual discs

Push in megamo saddles on everything

The strongest stuff possible being used for trials, because trials (not the riders) broke bits. Bikes weighed 35-40lbs

People getting custom MTB builders to make trials rigs.

When Brisa came along and were much better than what had gone before. Nelson Reis took the piss at the Bike Show

When Koxx came along and were much better than what had gone before. Vincent Hermance took the piss at the Bike Show

Everyone slamming Enos for being much more expensive than an ACS claw

Everyone getting Enos

.TK and freehosting websites

Every man and his dog producing 'team' websites with them and their mates listed as 'Riders', full bike spec lists under 'bikes', a different technique and jargon section to everyone else, and a list of pro riders with photos scanned out of MBUK. (See .TK websites)

Every manufacturer producing a trials bike which was an old jump frame with no outer ring and wide bars. Some put Maguras on them. None of us bought them.

More to come, I'm sure...

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Every man and his dog producing 'team' websites with them and their mates listed as 'Riders', full bike spec lists under 'bikes', a different technique and jargon section to everyone else, and a list of pro riders with photos scanned out of MBUK. (See .TK websites)

Every manufacturer producing a trials bike which was an old jump frame with no outer ring and wide bars. Some put Maguras on them. None of us bought them.

More to come, I'm sure...

Definately.

X-up drops

Hating Onza

Loving Onza

Echo Pures

FSA Powerpro's

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