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I swear, once I started doing trials... (8 posts)
|  I swear, once I started doing trials... | Beau
Oct 19, 2003 6:29 PM | | my trail riding improved my about 90%, Anybody else noticed this in their riding?? I think it is probably one of the best ways to train for riding the tech stuff. Just wondering if anyone else has felt this way. Oh yeah, I also try to have a little trials session before every ride, it seems to get me in the ZONE before I ride. |
| re: I swear, once I started doing trials... | jojo
Oct 20, 2003 8:38 AM | | I agree. As a former XC racer and still avid XC rider, riding trials has greatly helped my XC riding. Better balance and better technical skills make the rides that much more fun. Plus, I swear my leg muscles have have gotten stronger from trials. I can climb better and with a harder gear than I ever could. |
| re: I swear, once I started doing trials... | Monty Burns
Oct 20, 2003 9:38 AM | | Right, more specifically, trials make you realise that you are 8 times heavier than your bike, so you just feel quite well throwing it around you to place the wheels where you want them to be.
Basically, I find my bike smaller since I started trials. |
| re: I swear, once I started doing trials... | comollusk
Oct 22, 2003 9:46 PM | | i just started trying to ride trials, and my trackstands on the trail are 200% better! i've even bunny hopped around and up a tight rocky switchback without putting a foot down. it felt so cool to be able to pull off something like that, made even better by the fact that there were people watching totally amazed. |
| Yup, It is a very cool feeling!!! nm | Beau
Oct 24, 2003 7:09 AM | | |
| Yup, It is a very cool feeling!!! nm | DCDrew
Nov 4, 2003 11:26 AM | | How do you get into trials? Do the trails y'all ride have course near them, or do you just find some stumps and boulders? How does a beginner start...I can trackstand for, like, 2 seconds...? |
| Yup, It is a very cool feeling!!! nm | acme54321
Nov 23, 2003 2:20 PM | | I don't even know what a trackstand is! I'm a realative newbie so I guess that's just it. A friend and I have began riding urban and semi-trialsish stuff lately, I find it gives more confidence on the trails when I get into situations I would normally not try to ride through. |
| trials helps lots... | carlos82
Dec 23, 2003 11:06 PM | | i have been a social trials rider for a few years now and the crossovers to other disciplines (ie dh, xc and urban)is quite amazing. the big drops and bunnyhops in the trials format desensitizes you to these obstacles when doing dh etc. on of the things my friends noticed is that i have a very fast holeshot (ie fast start out of a gate), i atrribute this to the nature of trials, static and very powerful movements combined with precision and timing. trials for me really is the ultimate mental challenge relying on not only big balls but careful and timed calculations.... |
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