Despite being unable to compete in the North American Trials Championship at this year’s Bentonville Bike Fest due to an arm injury, I finally decided to travel out to Bentonville, AR anyway to vlog the event – primarily the trials riding. I have already created several videos, including a handful Read more
My Inspired Arcade street trials bike has the Arcade Riser handlebars and uses brakes from Hope Technology. The silky black bars carry the Inspired logo, while the brake assembly mounted to the bars sports the Hope logo. While I had not really paid much attention to this previously, it caught Read more
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
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
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
Whether in trials biking, mountain biking, or numerous other things in life, improving your skills requires overcoming fear. Or more accurately, pushing through the fear. In general, a good practice is to take incremental steps that might be scary and push you a bit, but that are not so far Read more