Essentials for a trials course

a combination of all those things in a way that allows lots of skill
levels to ride and improve. also, lots of variable sized gaps.

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just have a good bit of stuff you can't do

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just have a good bit of stuff you can't do

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Consider that some obstacles might be things you want to attack from
multiple sides. Those need to be out in the middle. Others, if the same
on both sides, can be around the edges.

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iridemymuni said:

i've got to go down there on the weekend with the excavator and cut it
out of the side of a hill to make it flat ).

haha...wait, you're not kidding, are you?
you've got an excavator?
yes, well, on my trials course i put one of those triangular thingies,
two skinnies side by side which can double as one of those double rail
things you can put the wheel between and jump along, two pallet towers,
a much longer skinny, a set of stairs, and a few small platforms, and a
ramp.

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put somthing original in it that nobody else has so it's more unique.
put somthing like say an escavator in it. not to many people have
those😉

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I think the most important thing is to make it fairly adjustable and
modular. That way you can just move stacks of pallets or other things
around as your skills improve.

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gaps, 2*2 in posts sticking up in the air (if your extreme), skinnys
some straight and some curved. also have some be round pipes and some
be square pipes. stuff to jump on...(of course)

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ya that 2X4 thing sounds cool i'm gonna do that. Make like a water pool
thing to gap over.

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For building instructions and ideas: http://unicycletips.com/

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it's good to put some irregularly-shaped objects into your course, too.
if everything's flat and square, then you won't improve your natural
trials skills any. put some logs / tree rounds in... make some of your
skinnies off-camber (sloping side-to-side)... etc.

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i'll have to clear about 35 trees to make the flat spot :P.

i like th eideas so far, everything seems do-able,. with any luck it
will improve my skills.

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This is a list of things that i would find essential in a Trials course
if i were to build one.

Skinnies: Some straight, some curved, some that slope up or down and
some that are round.

Hops and Drops: All sorts of different hieghts of hops and drops. Make
sure that there are some that you *cant* do that way you can work your
way up.

Boulders and logs(Like maestro said): Odd shaped obstacles will add
challenge to any line.

Techinical challenges: Gapping skinnies or gapping posts or both.

I would set it up in such a way so that you could attack any obstacle
from almost any angle that way you wont run out of lines to do.

Anyways thats just my $0.02. Hope it helped

-Phil

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iridemymuni said:

( i dont have that area yet, I've got to go down there on the weekend
with the excavator and cut it out of the side of a hill to make it flat
)

Why? I've helped setup the last three Trials courses at NAUCC and it
don't need to be flat! Use the forc-uh terrain, grasshopper!

You can used the terrain as part of the course and also to lead up to
obstacles or to make an obstacle more challenging (hoping _up_ to a
sandwich board).

Quoted message said:

Three sandwich boards of the same size, placed up the slope will

double as different heights and will be different if started from the
top or the bottom.

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If you level just a pallet stack, then you can hop from 3-4

different levels to the same stack.

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Snakes (bits of 2X4s in a wavy line) would be different, either on

the up/down hill or across the slope.

Quoted message said:

Some 2X4s just set across the slope and hop up and down from/to each

(a possible replacement for sandwich boards, with less of a difficulty
{psycho} factor).

For NAUCC 2004 at Soldier's Field we used the amphitheater slopes to
good effect and some of the rock gardens would have been different if
they weren't sloped.

Don't think of the hill as something to get out of the way, think of it
as -part- :eek: 😎 😄 of the course. Of course you may want to
have a portion of your course set on level, but it don't -gotta- be.

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You might wanna get some chip board to put on top of the pallets so you
don't break them. Get some truck tires to put in somewhere. And maybe
something moving, like a see-saw, or a swinging log would make it a bit
more challenging.

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me and owen (iridemymuni) have just spent the last few hours building
the trials course. we are no where near done. we still need to get
pallets which we will get some time this week. we have two flat areas,
one is 3.5 metres higher than the other. we need some way of getting
form one to the other. we are also making a pond in the middle which
will be interesting. so far we have made a set of stairs a dirt ramp
(for some reason) and a massive drop/ramp tihngy that isnt quite
finished.

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mawesome said:

You might wanna get some chip board to put on top of the pallets so you
don't break them. Get some truck tires to put in somewhere. And maybe
something moving, like a see-saw, or a swinging log would make it a bit
more challenging.

we have tonnes of chip board we can use. plus a couple of car tyres and
we are planning on building a see-saw, we just dont know where to put
it because we have limited room.

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okay i'm here.

we just need to get loads of pallets and build up a level with pallets,
and then make a pond to jump over and some other stuff. it should be
pretty cool when it's done, i aim to make the best trials/muni course
in australia by the end of it

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Get a old car to trial on.
It's fun to do, but watch out when you go uni in town.
Then you want to jump on every car you'l see:p

Peter M

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