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Message: [QUOTE="Patman, post: 222464, member: 16962"] Trials = addictivly cool! It's like learning to ride all over again. Remember when you first rode a dirt bike? How exciting, scary, thrilling... it was. Well trials is like that and then some. If you think you can ride off road / MX and trials is going to be a piece of cake I strongly encourage you to give it a shot, without an audiance. Unless you have somebody tell you how to ride the thing you WILL end up on the ground. These are the most responsive & trickest bikes on the planet. I still get distracted in the garage by my Montesa and end up just looking at it and marveling at it's form and the function of each little piece. If you can unlearn good off road habits that are BAD trials habits I think it will make you a better rider on both fronts. Example: You stand on a trials bike and this is also good form on a dirt bike right? Well while your standing on that MX bike what do you do? Clamp it between your legs right? On a trials bike that's all wrong. You need to keep your legs spread and let the bike lean under your vertical upper body. The list goes on and on. In the end learning to ride slow, I mean REALLY slow is harder than riding fast but the payout is a huge amount of fun, and to me that's what it's all about. [/QUOTE]