Yesterday afternoon I headed down to the University of Connecticut (UCONN) Avery Point campus for a trials biking session. In addition to being a fun place to ride, the Avery Point campus is in a beautiful location on the water and has an eclectic mix of building architecture. I love Read more
This edit is slightly longer than I typically like to post to YouTube, but I thought it’d be interesting to show a little more what a typical ‘backyard’ bike trials session looks like. In this case I was looking for a variety of challenges to hone my rear wheel hopping Read more
It took a bit longer than usual to edit the trials riding video from last week. I started by grinding my rims to get better ‘bite’ with my rear rim brakes. then went off to ride some rock with the fresh grind and delusions of great riding. Unfortunately, reality didn’t Read more
This past week was the beginning of spring. The weather was sunny and beautiful over the weekend, so I rode my trials bike both days. Since I feel like there was a strained muscle in my leg, I took it easy riding at home. I struggled with some things and Read more
This past weekend, I spent a couple hours riding at Day Pond State Park, which has a decent assortment of rocks that are suitable for trials riding. I pushed myself a little bit outside of my comfort zone with some of the lines. While I didn’t ‘clean’ all of them, Read more
We’ve had snow on the ground for the entire month of February, so the trials riding options have been somewhat limited. The driveway has been either frozen and snowy or mucky, and the pallets covered with snow. There has been several inches to a foot of snow in the yard. Read more
Over the past several trials rides, I have been trying to improve my rear wheel hops on extremely uneven surfaces, like bumpy rocks. For the past 2 weekends, I’ve practiced by riding on rocks at the park down nearby. It’s not the best riding on the planet, but there are Read more
After my new Crank Brothers Stamp 7 pedals arrived, I swapped them out with the stock “cage” pedals that came with my Echo Mark V trials bike. Of course after swapping the pedals, it was time to try them out! Day Pond State Park is not too far from my Read more
According to my habit tracker app, I hadn’t ridden my trials bike in almost a month due to health issues. This week I’m finally back on my bike. Whatever was plaguing me (it wasn’t COVID-19, thankfully), it kicked my ass. I didn’t even dare trying to ride since I felt Read more
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic (among other things), 2020 has been a bit of a train wreck. Normally our ‘local’ group of trials riders would have at least one formal trials biking competition every fall, in addition to the weekly group rides. In addition to the formal competition, for the Read more
