video, A Man and His Bicycle

Trials biking skills definitely help on the MTB trails in a number of ways such as riding this narrow rock ridge

This past weekend, one of my trials biking crew and his wife loaned me a hardtail and took me mountain biking at Hurd State Park. I’d only been mountain biking twice before (a couple years ago) and have been wanting to hit the trails again for quite a while. In fact, I think I need to make this a habit. Man, what a blast!

While I’m certainly not going to win any biking speed records, my trials experience has definitely helped me tackle some of the obstacles on the trail. I only ‘dabbed’ a handful of times. I’m sure that my speed will increase with comfort on the bike and on the trails.

Thanks to A&Z for taking me out on the trail, loaning me a cool MTB, and filming me with the follow cam. You guys rock!

Seems like there really isn’t any good place to start with this blog. If I wait until I have the perfect first post, with all the backstory, I’ll never post anything. So, here goes.

This is a rather uninspiring video clip of my latest trials biking practice session. I’ve been riding trials for about 3 years, but I’m still a beginner. And, this past year I’ve had a few injuries, which have required months of recovery.

In January of this year, I bought another trials bike. On Saturday, I played around a little with both bikes. Nothing fancy, no huge moves or anything. Probably the most impressive looking moves are at the beginning and towards the end of the video.

Trials bike practice, April 25, 2020

Throughout the past 3 years, I have been documenting bits and pieces of my journey learning trials biking – primarily in Instagram and on my YouTube channel if you’re interested in following my progress.

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This Was Only My Third Time Mountain Biking!

I guess I’ll just start kinda in the middle