Re: trials obstacles

pallets, spools, and 2x4s but yeah, pallets are great.

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You might like to have a look through the trials obstacle section of
www.unicycle.2ya.com .

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i looked last night and am planning to build some sandwich boards in the
next week or so

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The limitation with most standard trials articles is that most are all
flat, level surfaces--good for beginning hopping but the skill set does
not transfer perfectly to Muniing (my focus), which usually involves
oblique and rounded planes (rocks, et al).

An effective and cheap training tool for this is to go to Home Depot and
pick up a couple cement baseplates for big umbrellas. They have a 3-4
inch aluminum tube to take the umbrella--just saw this off flush with
the baseplate. The cement baseplate is circular, dome shaped, and about
16 inches across. At 12 bucks, you can buy several of these, lay them
out on your porch or sidewalk or whatever, and practice gapping from one
to the other. Trickier than it first looks--holding even a momentary
stillstand on the domed surface tokk me some practice. My technique
improved fast as my legs could take it (more than 6-8 gaps and I'm
gasping). Half hour on these things and my shirt was soaked through. I
noticed an almost immediate difference on the rocks up in Santa
Barbara.

JL

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also, with some pallet stacks you can attach some boards as ramps. not
just for riding up, but hopping up a slope. loads of fun and fairly
hard.

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Coldawg, drop by my house sometime and I'll give you a set of 2' boxes.
Seriously, i need to get rid of them, someone take them...

I use 2x4s, poles, and 4x4s for most obstacles, with a smattering of
plywood and 6x8s. Pallettes get really boring really fast, being as
there are only so many things that can be done with them. My gallery has
videos with examples of trials obstacles that can be built.

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