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  1. I'm new to trials and was wondering if there is anything that can help
    me with it? I also need someplace to hop on. The only things I have to
    jump on are 2 steps and 2 blocks of wood. I don't think i'm gonna be
    making any obstacle because i'm only 11. And what hand do you hold the
    seat with and do you get blisters from holding the seat?

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  2. hold the seat with what ever you feel comfotable with and as far as
    obstacles go just ride around untill you find some good ones. And you
    don't get blisters if you wear a glove

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  3. Where can I get some good glove's

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  4. Any light, thin gloves will work but try not to grip the handle too
    tightly. Relax. Relax. Relax.

    Tommy

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  5. Firstly, being 11 shouldn't stop you from building obstacles. Power
    tools aren't a neccessity, they just save you lots of time and effort.
    I built my first sandwich board without powertools and it's fine.

    Maybe it would be worth looking through the trials section of
    www.unicycle.2ya.com . Peter and I have put quite a few tips and
    tutorials into that section.

    Andrew

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  6. even with gloves if you spend more than a couple hours riding you will
    feel blisters beginning to form. any LBS will sell mtb gloves, which
    work great for uniing. personally, i have stopped wearing gloves, and
    my hands do blister some, but not much.

    keep practing on the wood and steps you have until you feel confident
    with your hopping. try holding the seat on the side, out in front of
    you also. this will help you to hop higher in the future.

    when hopping, practice stillstanding between hops. rather than just
    constantly bouncing up and down, try pausing for a second between each
    hop. this will give you more control.

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  7. that ww.unicycle.2ya.com is a great help. I'll look into making
    obstacles

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  8. You can buy wood at a Home Depot, Lowes, or other place like that. If
    you go around to some worksites or stores, you can probably get some
    pallets or scrap wood for free. They dont have to look all that pretty,
    as long as they dont break. Trip and I made some of the trashiest
    looking trials obstacles, and they are very sturdy.

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  9. Quoted message said:

    where do i get supplies?


    Yeah, construction sites in the bins.

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  10. I'm not sure if I just have a bad glove, but I get blisters through it.
    It's just an old sailing glove lying around the house that I picked up.
    It's not full fingered, but I got them through the material anyway. I
    ended up doubling over an inner tube on 3 of the fingers to stop my
    hands from getting blisters. I'm starting to think I must grip the
    handle too hard.

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  11. Read old posts on hopping. Must be fifty of them, most all with good
    info.

    Go to a market or feedstore or paint joint and nab some palates--usually
    free, but ask to make sure. Because you'll eventually start busting the
    1 X 3 ribs on these, cover one palate with a thin layer of plywood--runs
    about five bucks, and screw it in place. That's your top palate when
    hoping.

    Takes a few days to learn how to hop in place and get some little
    stillstand. Then start hoping onto the palate(s). One is the first
    week; two is beginning level; three is intermediate; four (basically 20
    inches) is advanced. Anything over five palates and you're nearing ace
    status.

    Once you can consistantly nail 20 inches, you're good for a ton of
    street stuff, since all benches et al are 20 inches or a little less.

    JL

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  12. cant delete this message sorry

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  13. I was helping my dad with the garden when I went to get something I saw
    enough wooden planks to build plenty of obstacle and a pallet. And I
    found some old cycling gloves. I'll be building some obstacles soon.
    I found this site with some stuff that looks like some trials stuff at
    http://www.pallet-mall.com/ just in case you want some
    What are gapping bars for?

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  14. Gapping bars are for practicing gaps between bars. You should be able to
    consistently static gap over 1 meter before you start to even think
    about gapping bars. If you want to see a video of some gapping bars in
    action, click on the link to my gallery in my sig line, and then click
    on "trials video clips" (might be a bit different name, I forgot). Once
    there, click on any video with "gapping bars" in it. There are two
    videos of no-sucess (1 bail and one equip failure), and 1 or two of some
    successful gaps.

    Don't build your entire trials course oujt of palletes. That's no good.
    At first, as you build up your hop and stuff, palletes are fine, but
    once you can do about 2' consistently, it's time to start putting some
    precise stuff in. Most trials courses are boring to me, as they're all
    just a series of big moves with huge surfaces to rest on in between.
    Good trials courses should only give you one or two chances to rest in
    the course of a long trials line. Most of the lines I build don't have
    any large surfaces to take a break on at all. Just a little thing to
    think about.

    Also, when designing a course, try to make everything modular. YOu have
    to build stuff a bit more robustly, but it makes making interesting
    trials lines much easier.

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  15. can u guys show me some pics of trials obstacle so i hace an idea og
    what to make

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  16. Check out this:
    http://www.freewebs.com/andrewcarter/building.htm

    I got it from Andrew Carter and Peter van B's site:
    http://www.unicycle.2ya.com

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  17. I might be buying some pallets for $2.50 each. About how many should I
    get or buy

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  18. gerblefranklin said:

    You should be able to
    consistently static gap over 1 meter before you start to even think
    about gapping bars.

    Why? Gapping between bars is more about precision than about distance.

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  19. Quoted message said:

    Don't build your entire trials course oujt of palletes. That's no
    good. At first, as you build up your hop and stuff, palletes are fine,
    but once you can do about 2' consistently, it's time to start putting
    some precise stuff in. Most trials courses are boring to me, as
    they're all just a series of big moves with huge surfaces to rest on
    in between. Good trials courses should only give you one or two
    chances to rest in the course of a long trials line. Most of the lines
    I build don't have any large surfaces to take a break on at all. Just
    a little thing to think about.


    Good to hear, I share the same approach to trials riding. 🙂 I think
    it's more fun this way. I chose to go onto more technical stuff when I
    could consistently hop about 30cm high rather than 2'.

    Andrew

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  20. also, while constructing a long trials line with combined moves can be
    good practice, it is perhaps more important to build small lines that
    can be changed around easily. the idea of a trials park is to improve
    your skills so that when you find a real line you can apply these skills
    directly. but nevertheless, building a long line that takes a lot of
    time to perfect can be much more fun than shorter, more technical
    lines.

    pallets can be a lot of fun if you play around with them. rather than
    just stacking them on top of eachother, try arranging them in weird ways
    so that, for example, they will shift position as you hop on them.

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