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  1. Last sunday I went along to a fantastic trials comp at Thunderbird Park.
    It was part of the national competition so there wre lots of riders
    there. This time I had a shot at riding Elite. I figured if nothing
    else I'd get to see all the good riders riding (although there was also
    a Pro category with the country's best riders in it). I had a great
    time and seemed to have chosen the right category. Most of the zones
    were almost clean-able although I ended up only cleaning one one them.
    I still have to work on my dabs.

    The video is about 1/3 unicycling and 2/3 bike trials, 2min long, 8MB,
    and encoded with DivX so if you have trouble playing it it most likely
    means -you need to download the DivX codec from www.divx.com- .

    Here's the video - http://tinyurl.com/b6to4

    In other news, that same day I was given some free gear as part of a
    team sponsorship thing a few of us are involved in.
    BBB Freeride pedals (I took these out for a muni ride this morning and
    was quite impressed...they're sooo smooth and seem strong) -
    http://tinyurl.com/9ehw2
    BBB Highliner gloves - http://tinyurl.com/cw8g6
    ...and some nice BBB sunglasses.

    I feel kind of guilty, and keen to get out and do some demos for them.

    Anyway, enjoy the video. There's some really nice bike trials in there,
    I think.

    Andrew

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  2. And a little preview...

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  3. nice video andrew.
    thanks.

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  4. as always a great video. keep up the good work.

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  5. Man, that looks like it must have been alot of fun! You really make it
    look easy. You have some good ups...seat in no less!

    While watching the bikes I found myself thinking "that looks like
    suicide!". I could never do that on a bike. But then they are probably
    thinking the same thing about you. heh🙂

    I would really like to ride with more trials bikers. Ive only really
    ridden with two before. I feel like it pushes me more to go bigger and
    try new things when i got someone going huge on a bike around.

    Ok, im done rambling. THank you for the vid!!

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  6. Thanks guys.

    I agree, riding with bikers is great fun. I've made some good mates
    through the trials comps who I now ride with and do demos with. I find
    that watching them use both of their wheels for extra support,
    especially on natural lines encourages me to think about where I can
    wedge my wheel between rocks...like in the first clip of the video for
    example. I think it really helps give you more stability on natural
    lines, and it's also really fun. It can bring more of a strategic
    element to trials, not that there isn't one already.

    We need to go riding together, mango. Where do you live? 🙂 I'm hoping
    to get to Santa Barbara and to the northshore trails in Canada at some
    stage in the next 5 years.

    Andrew

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