CSS Wizardry » Trials http://csswizardry.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:05:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 I rode through Leeds on a bike with no seat http://csswizardry.com/2010/03/i-rode-through-leeds-on-a-bike-with-no-seat/ http://csswizardry.com/2010/03/i-rode-through-leeds-on-a-bike-with-no-seat/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:13:26 +0000 Harry Roberts http://csswizardry.com/?p=1172 As well as being a web developer and type geek, I like to bounce around on a bike with no seat… Trials is something I’ve been doing for a couple of years now, but I always did it on a smaller mod trials bike, with 20″ wheels. This was okay for a period, but after a while it became painfully clear that a 6′4″ guy on a bike with small wheels looked remarkably like a clown. So, after six months out of the sport, this week I went to town and forked out £1200+ on a stock, a type of trials bike with 26″ wheels.

Oh, and the post title is a reference to this song.

Today, Suze and I decided to head out for a few hours so I could ride, and she could take some pictures with her iPhone (yes, the following were all taken and edited on her iPhone!).

Apologies for poor video quality.

Drop gap

A photo of me making a drop gap on a trials bike

Small drop

A photo of me making a small drop on a trials bike

Stoppie

A photo of me doing a stoppie on a trials bike

To back wheel

A photo of me getting onto my back wheel on a wall on a trials bike

Gap

A photo of me jumping across a gap on a trials bike

On top

I’d been trying this one for ages. We’re talking months…

A photo of me hopping on the back wheel on a trials bike

A photo of me hopping on the back wheel on a trials bike (black and white)

Going down

…gotta get back down after though.

A photo of me jumping off a stone structure on a trials bike

A photo of me jumping off a stone structure on a trials bike (black and white)

Wait, no seat?

I know, I know; there’s no seat. It’s meant to be like that for a few reasons:

  1. The shape of the frame means that the pedals come up to higher than any seat would.
  2. You spend so little time sat down when riding trials that a seat is almost entirely redundant.
  3. The place where a seat would be means it could cause (males in particular) some serious damage.
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