I’ve been riding for two months now , and at 58 I am finding that I really enjoy this and have found myself the ideal hobby . I’m probably a little bit ahead of you technique wise ( a tiny bit) but I live in an amazing woodland with lots of natural obstacles and I can ride 3 or more times per day for 20 mins to half hour . My hands hurt too much to do more . I love your video I find it very encouraging and supportive . I get a lot from watching others struggling with the same level stuff as myself . I just love riding these bikes and the feeling when I get something right , new tricks for old dogs springs to mind . My wife and my mum say I look like a boy again when I get on my bike .😂. Thanks for the vid and please do more . You’ve got another sub .
That’s great to hear thanks. We also have some woodland so plenty of room to practice, just need more time. I think we are doing our first event this weekend all being well so hopefully we’ll get some footage. I’m glad you enjoy watching us struggle! 😂 it is amazing how much you can progress in such a short time which is really encouraging and helps keep it interesting. Good luck and keep it up! 👍
Well buddy my friend I have a year on you! I'm 59 and I bought a Gas Gas TXT 300. I'm not new to motorcycles by far as I started riding in 1973 at 9 years old on a Harley Davidson 65 cc mini bike. I wish my Dad would have kept that first bike it's worth a lot of money today. I'm totally new to trials motorcycles though and like you I'm really enjoying myself so much. I'm having problems with my leg muscles though. I was diagnosed unfortunately with high stage throat cancer this spring and I went through 4 months of hell in a Pittsburgh hospital. 4 surgeries and almost died twice but I survived. My wife encouraged me to buy another dirt bike to give me motivation to do my therapy and get stronger 💪. I got a great deal on this gasser! I know it's a powerful bike for a beginner trials rider but I got an incredible deal on it. So when they dissected my throat to cut the cancer out I lost my voice box but hey, I'm alive 😊 they had to cut muscle out of my Left thigh to rebuild my esophagus and that's what is giving me problems. I work out regularly and for the legs I'm doing squats, stretches, and leg presses. It's slowly getting better but man is my leg sore after a practice. It's coming though. Have fun and be careful
@066motocross, wow I’m so sorry to hear about your problems, but it sounds like you’re doing really well. A total inspiration for a lot of other people in a similar situation and just generally In life. As Rocky said “just keep moving forward” 😂 I’m glad you’re enjoying it, it’s great fun and I’m sure you’ll strengthen up given time. It’s amazing how quickly you progress at trials. 👍
Same here 58 and find this very challenging and fun as heck, my hands hurt too. Check out Pat smege or smage , he has good videos with help learning techniques. Keep rolling man!
I don't know enough about proper riding techniques on a trials to offer any advice. I'm pretty new to this as well. I got my Beta in February and spent the first month learning to balance. Then got started riding a bit. At least your double blip sounds like two blips, mine still runs together as one blip.
Thanks, it’s not easy, coming from road bikes I found it hard just standing up to start with, felt really strange but it gets better quickly. Took a while for it to be 2 separate blips and still far from perfect but it’s great fun. Hope you stick with it!
This is good ,this is helpful!Rich Larson just seems to balance wheelie on the approach and then blip over the obstacle.I do it when im dreaming sometimes(not kidding ) and wake up really happy😀
53, been riding for more than 4 decades and just picked up my first trials bike a year ago. It is utterly amazing how much the skills these bikes produce affect the rest of your riding. We have set up multiple obstacles to practice on and often plan which technique will be worked on next after watching endless ytube vids. Trialsprogression is a wonderful learning channel, definitely recommend it.
Glad you’re enjoying the bike, it amazes me how quickly you can improve and learn new techniques. Trialsprogression is great and I’ve watched loads of his videos 🙂
I think this is great. Give it a bit more welly and you'll be landing on the back wheel too. It's just a confidence thing I reckon. I'm in the same boat as you guys. Good luck!
Best tip I'd give is to do it as a figure 8 not a circle, that way you get to practice tight left and right turns plus do the log hop uphill and downhill . . .
Although double blips look easy, in fact they combine the whole number of more basic skills. I'd suggest starting with all them separately: -- front wheel hops: with engine off and stearing wheel straight, hold the breaks, keep your arms straight, move you knees down and front and feel how fork is compressed. then move your knees along with your hips back and feel how fork is uncompressed. use this decompression to get the front wheel up a little. You need this for getting into wheelie fast without gaining much speed. -- Slow wheelie. Actually you need to use front wheel hop technick to initiate the lift of the front wheel up to the balance point and then push the rear brake to get the bike down to both wheels. The lift itself should feel like you rotate the bike around you with throttle and clutch, not you rotate youself around the bike pulling the handlebars. This is useful in double blips to feel comfortable near the balance point -- ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o5yzgnCOCxE.html this exercise is more about zaps but it is still quite easy for the beginners. put a small log so you can safely ride over it. now you need to build up RPMs before you touch the log. then push the suspension with you legs so you ride the front tire into the log with suspension bottomed out. it feels like you want to break you front ring over the log :) right at the moment front wheel touches the log, jump up and front on the pegs, maybe a bit over the bars and simultaneously drop the clutch. You don't need to master all of these before trying the double blip, but such a practice will pay more dividends than dealing with obstacles with missing fundamentals. Hope it helps :)
I’ve subbed, like your honesty instead of trying to be a show off. It’s a great feeling when you make it no foot down. It’s actually made me think of buying another one myself. 👍🏻3:58 was bang on
Thanks for your comment it means a lot. New to all this, both trials and RU-vid so making mistakes at both but it’s great when people seem to enjoy it! Definitely buy another, it’s great fun, I really look forward to getting out on the bike, it’s quite addictive trying to improve 🙂
I am 63 and started off road dual sports 2 years ago. Of the hundreds of slow technical riding u tube vids I've studied, I found the "IRC Tyre Guy" by far the most helpful in dialing in the fundamentals. Keep riding.
Thanks, I’ve seen a lot of his stuff and agree he’s very good at explaining things. Just need the weather to improve so I can get back out there. I hope you’re enjoying your bike as much as we are!
