Competitions and competition style riding, sometimes also referred to as “pure trials”.
Since the Bentonville Bike Fest was just around the corner, Jim brought colored tape to make gates for four mock bike trials competition sections in the woods.
My buddy Jim and I traveled to the Arrowhead Bike Farm in Fayetteville, WV to participate in their 3rd annual trials competition. This event was so much fun!
To try something different this year, I hosted an indoor trials jam at the Peace Dale Ramp Room in RI. Highlights included a trials mini comp and a gap contest.
After the UCI elite men’s trials competition was over on Sunday at the Bentonville Bike Fest, the trials course was open for general riding. A bunch of trials bikers rode the course all afternoon.
The Arrowhead Bike Farm located in Fayetteville, West Virginia hosted their first annual Trials and Tracks competition on May 21, 2022. I drove out from Connecticut with one of our local trials riders, Tony, to help with final setup of the sections, to share some of the nuances of running Read more
Due to some logistical challenges, this year’s trials biking competition almost had a last minute change of venue. Thankfully, the Town of Ledyard Conservation Commission voted in favor of allowing us to host the event at Glacial Park – one of the best trials riding locations around here. In a Read more
This week our group ride was at Glacial Park in Gales Ferry, CT. We set up a mock trials competition section with 6 gates and took turns riding that for a while, then took a free-for-all approach to just ride whatever we wanted to ride. One of the things I 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