Plus, once you start other sports like Hockey, you pay like alot of money to join, and then equipment that can be really pricey. I think trials biking and other styles of biking are great ways to spend money, same with unicycling.
Trials biking is a blast, I am actually started to get better at it, which makes it more fun, so if anyone is starting, don’t get frustrated. It is a great sport.
Isaac
That’s why Bike Trials do not get big quiclky!
A lot of peoples see good riders doing big drops, gaps and sidehops… And when they start to ride they think that aren’t getting better…
In bike trials you need to train everything on the floor first… And latter do everything in the obstacles… so you need a little bit of paciense too… But when you start to do more cool moviments… You can’t stop riding!
Bye!
Once I build up a Coker, I’m thinking I might get a trials bike.
Well, I don’t really do any sports that cost a lot of money and comparing it to unicycling is really a good comparison at all because when you start unicycling, you usually start with a $100 unicycle and then move to around the $400 range. With trials biking, you START near the $400 range and depending on your skill, it can go over $1000…
Never the less, I still think trial biking is super awesome, it’s just that no used bikes are like, $200 or $250 at least…
You can find used bikes for around $200. Check out www.observedtrials.net and just keep your eye open.
Okay, so today I was doing some pretty cool lines on my bike. I think I am getting some better. I am going to buy new bars for my bike, maybe a new rear rim, and new frame, soon.
Isaac
Have you thought about selling the whole bike Isaac? Is it too heavy for you?
Well, I wouldn’t mind upgrading sometime, but I think I will wait until I am some better. And no it isn’t to heavy, it’s a feather, im used to my old Haro Escape 8.3, it was a tank, it was like 36 lbs, and this is like 23 lbs so it feels feather.
Cool, how bad is the Norco evolve trials? There is an old one on CL for 180 or something. It has the 26 wheels. Which size wheel is better for what and who?
The Evolve is nice, I think, I don’t know much about Stock bikes. But yeah for $180 that’s good. I would definatly go for it if you are looking to get into trials biking, it’s loads of fun. And for your size, it would be great, for me riding a Stock would be too big, but yeah, you could ride either a long Mod, or a Stock.
Hope that helps.
Isaac
PS - If you don’t know.
Stock = 26"
Mod = 20"
Ok, so you’re saying that if I wanted to go with the 20’ wheel style trial bike (mod), i would have to go with a longer wheelbase frame than say, yours?
Well you could probably use mine, except you could probably handle a longer one better.
I’m building one this summer. Going to be nice, sun rims hope hubs, dt spokes, marino frame or something in 24in, echo hd, hope stem, riser bars, disc front to back, pivital seat+post, any bb echo forged cranks, some pedals I already have. Yeah, its going to be sweet, it’ll be my first trials bike, also street. Thing is going to cost an arm and leg, but should be worth it. It’s gonna be ss and first, but once i get some cash I might put some gears on it later on.
I’m actually a BikeTrials rider (8 years) with a ‘new’ interest in uni trials… just got a Koxx-One White Widow to play about on and it’s great fun!
Hmm, I am going to wait a bit longer, but probably pretty soon.
I’m looking around for a mod bike, then i’m going to replace the handle bars with risers, if it doesnt have them already. Then do some different things to it to make it better. I just need to find a cheapo.
maybe a stock bike… Stock bikes look more BA in my opinion.
I want a good mod bike…
…low on funds as I have spent over $1000 on my unicycles.
i spent nearly $1000 on my camera, but about 25 cents off.
yeah, i’m saving money til the end of the year. I sorta have it mentally budgetted, not based on any money amounts.
1.pelican case for my camera
2.trial bike
3.car
i wanna get an oldschool ford escort, then cut the roof off, and make a convertable.
ive got a plan also for the car, i’m going to weld a bar behind the 2 front seats, and then lay some sheet metal across the back, maybe making the back pop up also. Like, a latchy spring system.
Oh, i’d rip out all the upholstery, and then weld bracing in the back, so the car doesnt fold.
ok i am looking for a trial bike for me and a friend, he sais that he want to start and i’ve been wanting to try more if it in a while, just tried with my normal bike and it’s pretty fun… rode a lot of mtb and uni of course and my question…
this costs 4000 norwegian kroner… it’s 2nd hand but it’s in good shape, it’s like 500 euros… should i get this or:
Yaabaa 449 Senior
http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/product.php?product_id=10512&category_id=10
288 euros brand new…
it looks to me that the monty is very overpriced, but i dont know a lot about these bikes so i ask here 
Most of us don’t know a lot about these bikes either;)