What happens when your cross Trials and parkoir?

[Martin_Bpool]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KCy9nrchqFI

[RemaL]

amazing

[JackHolroyde]

raaaaaaa.
insane but great!

[alfa daley]

That is amazingly cool. I had to do a double take to make sure he wasn't pedalling as it looked so much like bicycle trials the amount of control he had and the way he throws the bike around. On the other hand, no number plate and non road legal bike so he could be considered le urban menace...

[StuB]

Feckin marvellous! Lovin that to bits

[kingb]

thats brilliant but im sure pc plod would ruin the fun over here - that looked like france


also did anyonme else pick up on the subliminal messaging in that?

words kept flashing up - most obvious of which was a name when he was riding over the bridge

[anonymous-user]

That is soooo impressive!!!

[IsMad]

Damn!!! that is seriously cool. I want to be able to ride like that .

[Jolley]

I can sense the opening scene to the next Bond film!!

(how did he work out he could squeeze past the staircase on the sloping wall?!)

[telecat]

He's nothing Special. I see better at the weekend. When you can do that but in Mud and or across loose rocks what he's doing is pretty easy to be Honest. As for the staircase bit try going up a shale shope into the smallest arch of a bridge and then turning to exit when the flags mean you have to duck to avoid the brickwork.

Edited by telecat on Saturday 19th January 19:32

[John Laverick]

telecat said:

He's nothing Special. I see better at the weekend. When you can do that but in Mud and or across loose rocks what he's doing is pretty easy to be Honest. As for the staircase bit try going up a shale shope into the smallest arch of a bridge and then turning to exit when the flags mean you have to duck to avoid the brickwork.

Edited by telecat on Saturday 19th January 19:32

Brilliant video !!!! Over the bridge was awesome!

[telecat]

Try going to an indoor event. You've missed the main UK one at Sheffield but one of the organisers runs the "X-Treme Trials Team" which is quite an entertaining show. The skills the rider is showing mean that what he is doing is pretty easy. Trials events are generally held in and across streams, rocks, deep gulleys or areas with lots of tree roots. I was at Tong today where the second section took the riders down a earth bank over rocks, across a stream with rocks in it then up another stream over more rocks before exiting over roots. Let's see the guy in the video try that!!

[John Laverick]

telecat said:

Try going to an indoor event. You've missed the main UK one at Sheffield but one of the organisers runs the "X-Treme Trials Team" which is quite an entertaining show. The skills the rider is showing mean that what he is doing is pretty easy. Trials events are generally held in and across streams, rocks, deep gulleys or areas with lots of tree roots. I was at Tong today where the second section took the riders down a earth bank over rocks, across a stream with rocks in it then up another stream over more rocks before exiting over roots. Let's see the guy in the video try that!!

I think you're missing the point .... we've all seen trials before and there is no denying the technical skills involved are greater than exhibited here.

What makes this video cool in my opinion is:

1) The urban setting
2) The fact its ‘street’ riding using existing structures instead of a contrived indoor course.
3) Balls involved due to the illegal nature [particularly the ride over the bridge arches].

Thanks

Edited by John Laverick on Monday 21st January 08:43

[anonymous-user]

John Laverick said:

telecat said:

Try going to an indoor event. You've missed the main UK one at Sheffield but one of the organisers runs the "X-Treme Trials Team" which is quite an entertaining show. The skills the rider is showing mean that what he is doing is pretty easy. Trials events are generally held in and across streams, rocks, deep gulleys or areas with lots of tree roots. I was at Tong today where the second section took the riders down a earth bank over rocks, across a stream with rocks in it then up another stream over more rocks before exiting over roots. Let's see the guy in the video try that!!

I think you're missing the point .... we've all seen trials before and there is no denying the technical skills involved are greater than exhibited here.

What makes this video cool in my opinion is:

1) The urban setting
2) The fact its ‘street’ riding using existing structures instead of a contrived indoor course.
3) Balls involved due to the illegal nature [particularly the ride over the bridge arches].

Thanks

Edited by John Laverick on Monday 21st January 08:43

[telecat]

garyhun said:

John Laverick said:

telecat said:

Try going to an indoor event. You've missed the main UK one at Sheffield but one of the organisers runs the "X-Treme Trials Team" which is quite an entertaining show. The skills the rider is showing mean that what he is doing is pretty easy. Trials events are generally held in and across streams, rocks, deep gulleys or areas with lots of tree roots. I was at Tong today where the second section took the riders down a earth bank over rocks, across a stream with rocks in it then up another stream over more rocks before exiting over roots. Let's see the guy in the video try that!!

I think you're missing the point .... we've all seen trials before and there is no denying the technical skills involved are greater than exhibited here.

What makes this video cool in my opinion is:

1) The urban setting
2) The fact its ‘street’ riding using existing structures instead of a contrived indoor course.
3) Balls involved due to the illegal nature [particularly the ride over the bridge arches].

Thanks

Edited by John Laverick on Monday 21st January 08:43

And every now and again watch out for an "urban" trial. Better riders on a "street" course. As for the "balls" required it looks like a french city. They can get away with it look at Remy Julian's Stunt shows as an example of the Health and Safety applied over there. Here Plod would be all over him.

[Jolley]

telecat said:

And every now and again watch out for an "urban" trial. Better riders on a "street" course. As for the "balls" required it looks like a french city. They can get away with it look at Remy Julian's Stunt shows as an example of the Health and Safety applied over there. Here Plod would be all over him.

I think Remy Julienne might have had permission to do his stunts! I have experience of the French police getting upset with me on my downhill bike in the Alps, so they are no more lenient.

Also, just because this guy isn't going over mud and rocks does not mean that he couldn't. Give the guy a break. He has had the balls to go out there and do it/film it/post it, and it is entertaining. I am sure he wasn't setting about trying to prove he was the best trials rider in the world... he was having fun... lighten up!

[SpydieNut]

Jolley said:

telecat said:

And every now and again watch out for an "urban" trial. Better riders on a "street" course. As for the "balls" required it looks like a french city. They can get away with it look at Remy Julian's Stunt shows as an example of the Health and Safety applied over there. Here Plod would be all over him.

I think Remy Julienne might have had permission to do his stunts! I have experience of the French police getting upset with me on my downhill bike in the Alps, so they are no more lenient.

Also, just because this guy isn't going over mud and rocks does not mean that he couldn't. Give the guy a break. He has had the balls to go out there and do it/film it/post it, and it is entertaining. I am sure he wasn't setting about trying to prove he was the best trials rider in the world... he was having fun... lighten up!

agreed

i *really* enjoyed that video. give him some credit - it was excellent - particularly the bridge

and yes, i just get the feeling that he could do more than that.

[anonymous-user]

SpydieNut said:

Jolley said:

telecat said:

And every now and again watch out for an "urban" trial. Better riders on a "street" course. As for the "balls" required it looks like a french city. They can get away with it look at Remy Julian's Stunt shows as an example of the Health and Safety applied over there. Here Plod would be all over him.

I think Remy Julienne might have had permission to do his stunts! I have experience of the French police getting upset with me on my downhill bike in the Alps, so they are no more lenient.

Also, just because this guy isn't going over mud and rocks does not mean that he couldn't. Give the guy a break. He has had the balls to go out there and do it/film it/post it, and it is entertaining. I am sure he wasn't setting about trying to prove he was the best trials rider in the world... he was having fun... lighten up!

agreed

i *really* enjoyed that video. give him some credit - it was excellent - particularly the bridge

and yes, i just get the feeling that he could do more than that.

Me thinks telecat doth protest too much

[telecat]

garyhun said:

SpydieNut said:

Jolley said:

telecat said:

And every now and again watch out for an "urban" trial. Better riders on a "street" course. As for the "balls" required it looks like a french city. They can get away with it look at Remy Julian's Stunt shows as an example of the Health and Safety applied over there. Here Plod would be all over him.

I think Remy Julienne might have had permission to do his stunts! I have experience of the French police getting upset with me on my downhill bike in the Alps, so they are no more lenient.

Also, just because this guy isn't going over mud and rocks does not mean that he couldn't. Give the guy a break. He has had the balls to go out there and do it/film it/post it, and it is entertaining. I am sure he wasn't setting about trying to prove he was the best trials rider in the world... he was having fun... lighten up!

agreed

i *really* enjoyed that video. give him some credit - it was excellent - particularly the bridge

and yes, i just get the feeling that he could do more than that.

Me thinks telecat doth protest too much

Lets just say that the sport needs the publicity but could do without the illegal riding. Too many associate "Trials" with illegal riding. It gets tarred by Mini-Moto's and Illegal Trail bikes running where they shouldn't. This makes life difficult for sympathetic landowners and the organising clubs. The club my Son rides for have only just had a venue returned for use after a councillor in the area made it his mission to stop the "nuisance" of cars, vans and "noisy" bikes passing his house on a Weekend. He targeted the venue despite only half a dozen of those vehicles being Trials rider's. Turned out the "Noise" was Enduro's being ridden to a "Rough road" which He can't do anything about.

[anonymous-user]

telecat said:

garyhun said:

SpydieNut said:

Jolley said:

telecat said:

And every now and again watch out for an "urban" trial. Better riders on a "street" course. As for the "balls" required it looks like a french city. They can get away with it look at Remy Julian's Stunt shows as an example of the Health and Safety applied over there. Here Plod would be all over him.

I think Remy Julienne might have had permission to do his stunts! I have experience of the French police getting upset with me on my downhill bike in the Alps, so they are no more lenient.

Also, just because this guy isn't going over mud and rocks does not mean that he couldn't. Give the guy a break. He has had the balls to go out there and do it/film it/post it, and it is entertaining. I am sure he wasn't setting about trying to prove he was the best trials rider in the world... he was having fun... lighten up!

agreed

i *really* enjoyed that video. give him some credit - it was excellent - particularly the bridge

and yes, i just get the feeling that he could do more than that.

Me thinks telecat doth protest too much

Lets just say that the sport needs the publicity but could do without the illegal riding. Too many associate "Trials" with illegal riding. It gets tarred by Mini-Moto's and Illegal Trail bikes running where they shouldn't. This makes life difficult for sympathetic landowners and the organising clubs. The club my Son rides for have only just had a venue returned for use after a councillor in the area made it his mission to stop the "nuisance" of cars, vans and "noisy" bikes passing his house on a Weekend. He targeted the venue despite only half a dozen of those vehicles being Trials rider's. Turned out the "Noise" was Enduro's being ridden to a "Rough road" which He can't do anything about.

I sympathise with that but I was commenting more about your assertion that "He's nothing Special"! I think anybody watching what he's doing in that video would disagree with you!