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Pete · Devon's Best

New Non Stop Trials Rules Explained

Cubber · Expert

Thanks, Pete, but it doesn't explain the approved method of avoiding badgers without stopping. confuse

Martyn

tugboat · Clubman B

That is amazing stuff, no matter how many times I watch I can't really figure out how they do it.

Without meaning to hijack the thread.......are those bikes fitted with pegs above the feet as well to allow the rider to lift the bike bodily using his/her body weight?

I just can't see that gripping the bike between the lower legs would do it somehow.

Pete · Devon's Best

It is about guiding the momentum being carried.

Shifting weight from one footpeg to the other can steer a bike with barely any input via the handlebars, and changing the weight bias front/rear while either braking of accelerating will lift one end or the other.

This is something we do often enough in terms of leaning back and tugging on the bars as we open the throttle to get the front wheel over say a log or rock lying in the road, and the weight transfer from rear to front as the rider passes over the log/step helps bring the rear wheel along too. Not as extreme as these guys but the principles are the same.

The Non Stop rule will make people better riders and events will flow better.

Meanwhile you may want to ponder these instructional videos from the states in another thread which go some way to explaining things:

http://devongtrf.activeboard.com/t53308506/riding-tips/?page=last#lastPostAnchor

V Twin Funster · Expert

I fully understand the reasoning behind the rule change, however, it's going to make the observer's job more difficult and possibly open to misinterpretation. One or two of the demonstration videos looked like the bikes had stopped moving forward but the move was given a tick. The positioning of the observer will be crucial. I bet there will be a considerable number of disagreements when results are published with lots of video footage being presented as evidence.

RichT4 · Champion

tugboat wrote:

Without meaning to hijack the thread.......are those bikes fitted with pegs above the feet as well to allow the rider to lift the bike bodily using his/her body weight?

I just can't see that gripping the bike between the lower legs would do it somehow.

I can only assume it's done in a similar way to how we use to 'bunny hop' our BMX's (assume that we all had BMX's).

It was all done with a quick bounce on the frame/wheels (maybe a little tyre spring) and then pulling the bars back towards you and once the front lifts you push the bars forward which levers the rear off the ground using your body postion & weight as the anchor point.

I do the same thing now on my (much heavier) mountian bike and it makes my wrist ache, which I think demonstates where the force is being managed. biggrin

Gasgas23 · Clubman B

Rich is correct,

on a trials bike you push down and preload the suspension before the bunny hop. For a higher hop, after preloading, give it a bit of gas to raise the front wheel then use the same shifting your weight forward and use your feet to grip on the pegs to push the rear up and back.

It is very very technique based. with a bicycle trials background i like to think i can bunny hop a mountain bike quite high, but it took me a long time to adjust to using the suspenion on the gas gas trials bike i have now.

tugboat · Clubman B

Thanks for the explanations, I think I'm starting to understand the techniques and skills involved.

mud sweat n gears · Clubman B

Not too sure about this will have to see how it woks in a competition. I think I prefered it the way it was confuse