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Rail Gaps and More
I love riding trials so much that it’s hard to stop once I start. I was able to pull off some pretty cool lines until I literally just could not ride anymore.
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Pallet Slots Will Be the Death Of Me
Despite the forecast for rain, I needed to get out on my trials bike. The slots in the pallets messed with me in multiple ways. The slippery wood didn’t help.
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Super Sketch Fest
We got some snow this week making our usual spots unrideable. So we went to Tony’s place to ride on sketchy wooden features in the parking lot.
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Simple, Yet Challenging
We’ve been remodeling our kitchen, so I haven’t ridden much lately. Despite having the builders working in the house, I needed to get on my bike and ride.
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I Built Some New Skinny Beams
Using the main posts from my son’s old playscape and some other scraps of wood, I built a set of skinny beams, that I just needed to ride.
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Solo Backyard Trials Session
This week it was supposed to rain, and the rest of the trials crew already had plans. Perfect time to ride pallets in the yard!
Skills & Technique
Skinny Hero, or Skinny Zero?
After driving past a park with plenty of telephone pole skinny lines I wanted to ride, I finally decided to try a bike trials practice session there.
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Rainy Wet Ride at Forte Park
The rain started just as we began riding, making the wooden features of the trials park wet and slippery. And a load of cops showed up!
Natural Riding
I Wasn’t Expecting My Bike To Do This
It was a gorgeous afternoon. There were lots of lines and obstacles to ride. Everything was going well, until… it wasn’t.
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Needed Some Wins After a Rough Start
After about 30 minutes into this backyard trials session, I wasn’t sure I was going to successfully complete any lines on the rocks. So I tried something else.