Loss of interest in street/dj after trials?

[ACR]

After riding trials for a couple months, I have zero interest in riding street or dirt jumping. I spent a long time building my street bike up so I am kind of resistant to selling it. It's a ss steel bike with dual 24's etc. I was considering selling it and then building up a Ryan Leech-style bike. Have any of you gone through this?

[AndyT]

street/dj in the summer, trials in the fall/winter.


Thats how i've been for about 3 years.

[ACR]

So you never really had a preference? DJs pretty much scare me and trials has been a long time interest. Is Ryan leech's bike even considered a trials bike? Or is it a light street bike?

[Elan]

i lsot interest in girls....but mysteriously gained interest in male road riders.

[hello?]

i used to ride dj and street a lot then i got into trials and have barely touched my otehr bike. i definetly still enjoy it though i just dont get out and use it very often at all.

[trauma100]

I lost intrest in diseased monkey anal after trial's


























My hucker's been collecting dust in the cellar .......havnt been on it in a year but will soon do to girly's wanting to ride

[bmorekirby]

i lost interest in urban almost completely. i traded my balfa minuteman for my friends megamo, and never looked back. Urban was fun for a while, but after all the stair gaps, wall rides, manuals, bunny, i got bored

~Kirby

[BrettM]

Make sure you ask everyone how long they have been riding before asking this question. Most people on here haven't been riding long enough to get bored. Everything is still new. I have and I know Andy has. We both get bored. I have periods like the last 6 or so months where I barely touch the trials bike. Then I will only ride the trials bike. It comes and goes.

[ACR]

Make sure you ask everyone how long they have been riding before asking this question. Most people on here haven't been riding long enough to get bored. Everything is still new. I have and I know Andy has. We both get bored. I have periods like the last 6 or so months where I barely touch the trials bike. Then I will only ride the trials bike. It comes and goes.never thought of it that way. I guess i was all about riding the urban/dj bike when I first got into it, then that faded out. Hopefully I will not stop riding trials.

[only1fuji]

yeah i rode cross country for about three years, but since ive been ridin trials the past 3 or so months i think ive ridden my fuel maybe 10 times at the most.

[tomacropod]

I ride everything in moderation. My street bike scares me but I'm gettting used to it. At the moment I'm having serious trials cravings.

- Joel

[Elan]

ATM, if i buy a sportbike, trials is OVER

[Poopslush]

Hahahhaah!!! I hear that. Try to remember to not get killed though.

[Elan]

ps.: my life is OVER shortly there after

[AndyT]

yeah i rode trials for probably 1.5 years exclusively then i started mixing it up. If you can ride trials every day for 4 years I give you props, but you are seriously dedicated...most people loose interest...there is NOTHING compared to doing a manual for a minute down a hill; just hit the zone and chill...same with rhythms; trials is all faggot math shit.

[Elan]

pretty much nothing compares to flying through the air.. DH, MX, BMX..whatever, air is #9 in my book

[Elan]

trials dont count.

[bwagner]

I think the key is to keep learning new stuff. If you can learn something new each time you go out, no matter which discipline were talking about, you'll keep interest and have fun. When you start just being content and not really trying much, it's then that you start to want to try something different. Mo, it helps that you started riding trials at a time when there are pelnty of of other riders in our area who can help you keep getting out and doing new stuff.

[AgrAde]

ATM, if i buy a sportbike, trials is OVER

be carefuls, a guy i know broke both his legs and arms and lots of ribs and collapsed a lung on his bike last weekend.

there is no air like MX air.

[werkinit]

I have till reciently been riding stree trials style bikes . Norco for ever and a zebdi .
After riding a trials specific bike I saw the light and bought a zoo.
However I enjoy street, park, dj, xc, and commuting to work, which can all be done
on a street trials bike . I have a used moment frame built up now (steel) for all round stupidness and a trials bike for 'trials days'.

It works out if you can do trials on both your bikes so your never stuck wishing you had the other.

How you could ever tire of diseased monkey anal is beyond me
oooo eeee aaaa gargle gargle

[trauma100]

How you could ever tire of diseased monkey anal is beyond me
oooo eeee aaaa gargle gargleThe scratch's and bite mark's om my thigh's and stomach wont heal and the Aids coupled with syphilis and Monkey flue have turned my body into a festering wasteland.














I rode trials everyday hardcore for the first 1.5 years ..... but the last 1.5 years I'm on my bike maybe twice a week if I'm lucky.

[ACR]

moment frame built up now (steel) for all round stupidness and a trials bike for 'trials days'.

how do you like that frame? :drool:

[rocpyro]

I love bikes. My friends and I started building ramps when we were 7 or 8 and they kept getting bigger till we were like, "lets get dirtbikes!". Trials, DJ, DH, XC are all awsome, but there really is nothing like jumping 70 or 80 feet on a dirtbike. Moto is euphoric and way too addicting. and too expensive while I'm in college:(

[chronic]

After starting trials I've never had an interest in anything else. I guess everyone has something, this seems to do it for me.

[netto]

i've been riding nothing but trials for almost 3 years
doesnt really get boring at all
i ride almost everyday!

[AndyT]

but you are a small asian so you don't count.

[BrettM]

i've been riding nothing but trials for almost 3 years
doesnt really get boring at all
i ride almost everyday!
So did I at 3 years in. Don't anymore.

[bylsma]

I still masterbate practically everyday.

[AndyT]

I still masterbate practically everyday.
how many inches higher are you getting now?

[bylsma]

My precision has greatly increased, as well as my balance (I can now achieve on one leg!!!!!).

[bylsma]

I'm doing a demo at an elementary school on Thursday.

[Ross W.]

I'm doing a demo at an elementary school on Thursday.

:rofl:

[KeepRollin]

I've been going 3 years now but I don't ride everyday mayyyyybe 3 times a week. I just don't have that kind of time with school and all. I think alot of has to do with whether you have new places to ride or not. I spend a lot of my time trying to find new spots. Trials does get boring if you have to ride the same crap all the time.

Street/DH/Whatever is works like this..... Speed + Height = me scared cause I'm a huge pussy.

I'll stick with trials. If I could ride new rocks everyday I'd never stop.

[alexm]

I've lost interest in trials and gone to bmx dirt jumping. trials is still fun but i ride 1-2 times a month right now and it shows. when i do ride i have fun but i don't really aim at progressing anymore. i get a way bigger rush dirt jumping and i'm shit. just ride what you want to ride.

[tomacropod]

I agree. We will ride Kambah bmx park tomorrow morning?

- Joel

[alexm]

tomorrow isn't much good for me. morning and early afternoon consists of school and the evening involves filming the final scene of my short film. is friday any good? sure it is.

[tomacropod]

of course it is. I can get there at 11.30

- Joel

[alexm]

done and done. trials bikes in car as well for log ride? or no fit in back of your car? p.s. i'm uploading a dodgy video of the logs now, should be done by 5:30.

[AndyT]

werd alex...in the beginning i rode as much as I could, then there were 2 years when i rode every day or 6 days a week with friday as my day off. Then i took my first break to ride dirt and street in the summer- picked trials back up...been on and off for a while, lost interest mostly in christmas 2002/2003 and picked up another sport for bit. I still ride whenever I can, sometimes on my off days from training if I'm not lifting or too tired. Once I get my hands on some cranks and a seatpost for my bmx ill rage that- check out the FTC street video (i didn't make it) at around 8 mins to see the jumps that are 3 mins from my house.

[alexm]

i saw the video. i should reply more to those thigns. it was sick, loved the bmx stuff. i love how i can get a mad buzz from getting air over a jump, i don't think i've had a buzz riding trials in over a year.

[alexm]

didn't mention how cool those jumps were considering they were in a backyard, even cooler knowing that they exist 3 minutes away.

[AndyT]

yeah those guys are literally a block away from me- the road 34 guys...its 2 cats who graduated college and started a bike shop; super cool stuff because there are a bunch of shops in town but they are all old fuddy duddy doucher shops.

[Peace]

not impressed alex...... you need some sydney/terrigal natural.

I only get sick of riding trials in the SAME spots all the time, like our weekly city night ride, im totally off it, ridden everything ive seen in the city... totally over it. But chuck me on good natural (open big rocks with tech shit on the side) and i will never get over it... Urban you can get sick of easy but natural is so much more challenging and there is ALWAYS another line, thats what i love about it. Oh and the fact theres always hot chicks jogging/walking by with tight running shorts that look like they are painted on....mmmmmmm.

Organise a friday/saturday ride in sydney sometime guys, cmon you all need it. BMX bandits.....

Peace

[AndyT]

not impressed alex...... you need some sydney/terrigal natural.

I only get sick of riding trials in the SAME spots all the time, like our weekly city night ride, im totally off it, ridden everything ive seen in the city... totally over it. But chuck me on good natural (open big rocks with tech shit on the side) and i will never get over it... Urban you can get sick of easy but natural is so much more challenging and there is ALWAYS another line, thats what i love about it. Oh and the fact theres always hot chicks jogging/walking by with tight running shorts that look like they are painted on....mmmmmmm.

Organise a friday/saturday ride in sydney sometime guys, cmon you all need it. BMX bandits.....

Peace
:werd: i've lived in the same smallish town for 5 years. shit gets old.

[alexm]

i have plenty of natural around here to ride if i like, what doesnt inspire me is a bike that has a leaking rear brake that's been leeking since before the start of the year. i don't have brakes on my bmx to worry about, just stopping.

[Peace]

Couldnt imagine riding a smallish town for 5 years, im sick of sydney city already after about 3... But i do only get to ride it at night so im sure it would be more entertaining in daylight.... but yeah urban is like a mini fad in trials it comes back every now and then. Im startin to get manuals dialed on my trials bike now which helps out in the flowing lines.

Yes you have rocks alex, but they arent "fun" rocks they are more "training" rocks. Sydney natty is great! rocks vary from round, big, sharp, square to tech all thrown down along our coast. Ill take pics from my phone each time i ride the spot.
Last time you were here sucked cos of the weather, otherwise that spot is huge! i went around the corner and found a shitload more natty! its awesome.

Peace

[Peace]

oh and get a BT with vees alex, there goes your leaky leaky tempramental magura, ill be joining you cos my magura is just a stupid fussy bitch!

Peace

[alexm]

that was my plan, i was looking forward to a new frame but then i probably need to downsize to a 20tooth ring up front for clearance and buy a new king kog for the rear then a vee brake kit which will cost be about $160. so we are looking at like $230 plus frame cost so that sounds less appealing. my bike does it's job unfortunately.

[Stikman]

Its weird that most of you guys started trials and have since moved on to other forms of riding.
I've been riding for 7-8 years. I started off with XC, that licked balls after a while, so I got into DH for about 4 years, but that got gay when I moved away from hills. Then I got interested in Trials, but didn't have a true trials bike so rode street/urban shite instead.
I got gay again and brought a bling ass XC bike which bought back the fun of riding for me, being out of control fast and crashing when shit got pear shaped. I finally got a real Trials bike and have been dominating that heaps, but I still love getting out on my jump hardtail and just going fast.
Trials is rad when you're progressing, but nothing will ever beat being on a bike at pace or floating jumps.

[tomacropod]

I have deore (good) calipers and lots of spare flak jacket cabling maybe. I also have pads if Ash doesn't come and pick them up so having cheap vees is not hard, buying the frame is hard enough. I also have boosters too. Having a bike that gives you the shits takes away from the riding experience, hence single speed.

Mixing it up is good though, riding a 30-something lb 24" bmx has got to be good for flicking around trials bikes, although I imagine mine will be weighing in at around 26-27lbs when I get my frame back...I'm sure it'll ride well though...

that BMX/street shit Andy posted was way good, loved the 180 taps off that board. A lot of the trials guys in canberra are getting into the BMX thing Peace, I think you guys have better natural than us in some ways...perhaps just different.

does anyone else have involuntary "push down, lift up" motions when watching flowing DJ videos ?! I seriously can't help it ! You know what I mean - with your head.

See you friday Alex, will trials bike load into rear seat if available for assembly at aforementioned time.

edit: I think a couple of years ago someone canadian summed up the primary deficiency trials has which drives people to supplement it with other forms of riding after a couple of years - it's slow ! Speed is the thing that gives you adrenalin after you get over the trials adrenalin thing and it becomes more like gymnastics/whatever for want of a better analogy...

I have fast bikes which give me a different type of rush. There's 100s of kms of singletrack and 100s of kms of firetrail within 15km of my house.

- Joel

[AndyT]

does anyone else have involuntary "push down, lift up" motions when watching flowing DJ videos ?! I seriously can't help it ! You know what I mean - with your head.I float my little green 90s gt race bmx bike to class when I'm in a hurry, I love doing that down teenie hills and stuff.



for reference- i didn't know how to bunnyhop or anything on a bike until 1.5 years into riding trials; I had no skills from any other biking, I had ridden xc for under 2 years and that was it. I think i learned to ride a bike when i was 9-10 years old :hsugh:

[Elan]

NOW YOURE THE BEST EVER!!!!1

[AndyT]

eye kno you saw that fakie 180 dizaster on that creek bed the other day :coold:

[tomacropod]

love flowy shit. where alex and I are filming on friday is a pretty standard bmx track, you enter the 6 pack sequence of little humps at a moderate pace and you exit at like twice the speed without pedalling at all. Lucky cos there's a step up and a step down after it.

Alexx have you fixed that flat yet?

w00t !

for positation: do people follow formal rules of fairness (eg equality, equity, need) primarily as a means of pursuing personal gains or independent of any individual gains? Review theory and research on both perspectives and draw conclusions about the relative strength of each view

^^ why I want to ride something without 700c wheels. Looking forward to friday although it's closer to the "fuck off week" of assessment next week. 6000 words worth of essays and fucking presentations and shit about shit I can answer in like 100 words without references

- Joel

[AgrAde]

Trials is rad when you're progressing

and only when you're progressing :wtc:

[tomacropod]

it's easy to get lazy and sometimes it's important to hang back and perfect your established moves but you do have to think of new moves you want to perfect. Set goals for each ride or practice session. Initially progression happens on its own, after a while you need to plan how you will progress and how much you want to.

- Joel

[DanBowhers]

I rode trials and xc for about a year, then trials exlclusively for about 2 years, then didnt ride trials at all (a few comps here and there) and just rode street for about a year. Just recently I have put together two bikes (Identiti Judge and my street bike) that I can interchange on pretty well and do both as I please. I ride street (and park/dj) prolly 5 times a week and trials 1-2.

Basically Brett said it perfectly. When I was new to trials there was no way I'd even think about doing anything else, but it became boring. Its cool again now though because I dont just ride UCI trials. I have no qualms about doing big bunnyhop gaps, etc. on my trials bike...I just wont take it near any DJ's or skateparks...

[Stikman]

You going backwards too AgrAde? Ha ha, its cos we can't ride with each other and amp it up.

I reckon I am finding it harder to master some of the more static moves because of riding other styles before hand?

Dunno, just gotta ride more.........Bitchezzzz!!!!!

[AgrAde]

it's a bit like that. a good riding spot is all i need, i don't ride enough to hold anything new. plus i'm too weak to use the same gear all around, i need it a tad easier if i want accuracy on static shit. oh well, SS > all.

i think i'm gonna keep my echo too. the viper was great on the 90 degree angles but on natural it's too much for me to manage, plus the term 'wet noodle' comes to mind. are you up here anytime soon?

[alexm]

i can't adjust to my trials bike at all after riding bmx. makes trials less appealing also.

Joel, went to film the last scene of my film at the queanbeyan hospital tonight and on the way i noticed the queanbeyan dirt jumps on the horizon (i'd been looking for them everytime i drive that way but looking in the wrong direction by a few degrees.) they are right next to the cemetary, maybe check them out tomorrow. i'll be taking a jumper and long pants in preparation for my stacks! promised elan i would try some 360s.

[tomacropod]

taking long pants tomorrow? Cool. I'll take some also. Will show up the dust better to make us appear hardcorer.

Taking video camera? Don't forget to put your film tape somewhere safe first. I would feel a little guilty if I filmed over it.

I'm keen to watch you try some 360s onto that tabletop, perhaps over ! I'll just stick to plain air for the moment.

queanbeyan jumps sound good. Big for Ballalexx or small for old people?

- Joel

[alexm]

I'm now less inclined to take my trials bike due to the need of a rebleed. any news on your frame arrival?

i saw these jumps from a long way away and they looked big from there so i'm guessing they will be very big. I'm sure there are littler ones for us though that the regulars warm up on - i hope.

[alexm]

camera will be on board. i'm capturing the footage from tonight now so we won't have to worry about erasing it.

[trauma100]

1984 - 1986 I had a partial sponsership from Kuwahara bike's, grab on grips , and skyway. I did mostly flatland and pipe .... had a quarter in the backyard , lived at the local bike shop.... did demos with portable quarterpipe's and some gay ass show's here and there for schools and shit. Broke my collar bone and focused mainly on weed for the next four years!...Man I'm fukin old!.. the last time i jumped on a bmx ...I looped it and smashed my bean after 13 seconds on the thing.

[ACR]

haha i just bought a pair of grab-on NOS foam grips...

[tomacropod]

no trials bike so only PV will feel left out. Catch YOU after class negro

- Joel

[Mordax]

trials is awesome cause you can normally find decent stuff pretty close to home. but riding trail up on the shore this past school year was the shit. i'll take the rush of riding a 4 inch wide skinny lifted 10 ft up anyday