Hcor.net Forum Index -> Trials -> Reinvent this forum: Trials for the HCOR rider       View previous topic :: View next topic  What do you think? Sure why not  33%  [ 3 ] Not bad, but I'll just Post in Park  33%  [ 3 ] I ride that kind of trials, I'm up for it  33%  [ 3 ] Stupid idea  0%  [ 0 ] Total Votes : 9 Reinvent this forum: Trials for the HCOR rider Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:40 am Sammydude Burner   Joined: Oct 15, 2003 Posts: 140 Location: Colorado Springs, CO This is pitiful. I'm not even sure anyone is going to see this, cuz this forum is dead. I'm a newbie, but from what I gather this forum was added a while ago becuase people wanted a trials section. But personally, and I hope at least some people agree with me, the kind of person who is on HCOR does not want to talk about saving weight on a mod or some UK rider who won some observed trials contest. Thats what trials websites are for, if thats what you want to talk about, the trials-online.com forums and the like are HUGE. But i still see a niche for a trials section on a place like this. Trials moves have become part of street riding. If anyone here is doing trials, its probably mixed in with their park and urban style and they don't identify themselves as "trials riders". They go into the Park/Urban section instead, which kills this forum. Why not make this forum a place to discuss the more technical aspects of urban and park riding. For example, Myopic is a huge topic in the Park section right now, and rightly so, as it was a Park contest. But Jeff Lenosky took first place and his urban and park riding are based largley on trials. Thats the kind of rider who could post here, instead of in the Park section when they want to talk about that kind of riding. I fall into that category, and there must be at least a few people like me. Maybe not enough who agree with me to jumpstart the forum, but hell, why not? The forum is here, it not any harder to post here than in the Park section, and it gets your post out to people who ride a more similar style to your own. Re: Reinvent this forum: Trials for the HCOR rider Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:30 pm ghostrider Bomber   Joined: Sep 10, 2002 Posts: 59 Location: NJ you make a good point. I don't think most riders here ride one style all the time. Riders who employ trials techniques like us are still going to be rare. I agree there must be "trials influenced" riders out there but it's unlikely they will find their way here. If you want to discuss trials in a more general way I'll try to add my two cents, although I come to trials from a trail riding perspective. Although trials and xc are a big part of my riding I don't consider myself a trials rider or XC rider, just a guy who likes to have fun on his bike. I usually gravitate towards trials boards but since I am such a generalist there is really no biking website catagory that fits me. Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:30 pm Toshi Kingpin   Joined: Sep 6, 2002 Posts: 2074 Location: seattle a lot of these sub-forums are dead. anyway, i think hcor readers ride trials, or some urban variant of it. it's just that there's not a lot to talk about, really. i got all my dumb questions out of the way years ago on the old mtb-trials@cyclery.com mailing list Re: Reinvent this forum: Trials for the HCOR rider Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:14 pm evilpete All-City   Joined: Oct 05, 2003 Posts: 763 Location: Long Island/Plattsburgh Ny Sammydude wrote: But Jeff Lenosky took first place and his urban and park riding are based largley on trials. last i checked barspins, 360s and fufanus arnt trails moves Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:21 pm Kevin All-City   Joined: Jul 6, 2003 Posts: 604 Location: Fairfied, CT my style is urban/trials also, but i use this forum when i have specific trials issues, and i leave everthing else to the urban forum. if people would post here, i would. every day i only check pics, whatevas cleva, urban, and this forum, so if there were topics id post _________________ Poop.

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