Vid - All Mountain Trials

From Nicolai

Date: 2011-10-23


There was a time when North Shore riding was being described as dowhill trials. Thankfully those days are gone. What did you think of the way these lads tackled the terrain? Tell it...

 

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Posted by Cheez1ts at 11:24 PM on 10-23-2011
I would have to say it worked excellently! That was both enjoyable and mind boggling to watch. If that was number three then I guess I'll have to look for the first two :D.


The silver fork with the thin blue crown caught my eye too, does anyone know what it is?
Posted by biggles604 at 11:58 PM on 10-23-2011
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Originally Posted by Cheez1ts (Post 2580788)
The silver fork with the thin blue crown caught my eye too, does anyone know what it is?

Suntour Axon.
Posted by shonky at 12:52 AM on 10-24-2011
That was much more enjoyable than I expected based on the title.
Rather good in fact.
Posted by dkl at 02:22 AM on 10-24-2011
neat video ... the climbing at the beginning and the few little hops they were doing at the start didn't catch my interest to quickly, but given the title and the fact that you bothered to post this suggested some sweet footage was to be seen. pleasantly surprised. thanks. .... at first i did think that i had a momentary lapse of dyslexia when reading the title, wondering why trials was spelled so strangely.
Posted by nick at 09:08 AM on 10-24-2011
that was sweet! btw some of us still ride dh trials:P
Posted by brotay at 10:06 AM on 10-24-2011
That was excellent!
Posted by Mordax at 10:23 AM on 10-24-2011
I've always wanted to get a trail bike setup that would let me incorporate some of my trials stuff into my riding. Cool little video
Posted by Professore at 10:39 AM on 10-24-2011
Trials is what got me into the sport 15 years ago and I've always enjoyed applying that style of riding to my trail riding. I enjoy flow trails very much but there is something to be said about finding creativity in what nature put in front of you instead of building over and around it.
Posted by Kever at 10:40 AM on 10-24-2011
Great video. Certain parts reminded me of riding the shore back in the day.
Posted by Mic at 10:45 AM on 10-24-2011
Frank Schneider was once a pretty successful German DH rider, he then stepped back, and concentrated on coaching and other things biking related.

I love the vids since they show that you do not have to have skinnies, bridges and super-sick jumps to have fun and a challenge.

Part One


Part Two


Some other fun stuff



Posted by shirk at 10:57 AM on 10-24-2011
Part One and Part Two look riding the Escarpment in Ontario back in the day. Some of the hiking trail wasn't really ridable but we'd end up hopping around trials style on it.
Posted by enduramil at 11:41 AM on 10-24-2011
Nice. Made my day. Bit like Speed Trials.
Posted by adelorenzo at 12:03 PM on 10-24-2011
Cool vid! Wondering why Gates Carbon Drive would sponsor this video like when they are both riding chains and derailleurs?
Posted by DarylMac at 01:02 PM on 10-24-2011
I was pleasantly surprised. Don't think the riding was different enough to warrant calling it "all mountain trials" as it was more just all mountain riding (albeit better then what I would serve up).

Two riders with different styles. Guy with white fork had more pleasing style and approach IMHO, a little more flowy. Guy with silver fork went out of his way to add a more 'trials' style. Trials is one of those things that I like to watch live but it never translates as well on film - which is not a knock on trials riders.
Posted by Sethimus at 02:47 PM on 10-24-2011
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Originally Posted by adelorenzo (Post 2580914)
Cool vid! Wondering why Gates Carbon Drive would sponsor this video like when they are both riding chains and derailleurs?

whole team is called "gates nicolai", some riders use the gates system:

http://gates-nicolai.dbap.de/index.php?pid=2599

"GATES CARBONDRIVE projects: Argon FR and BMXTB Race GATES CD"
Posted by LostBoyScout at 08:35 PM on 10-24-2011
Awesome. As a mediocre (at best) trials rider myself, it definitely turns the forest into a playground with all sorts of new opportunities - I need to take better advantage of that.

Also - most peculiar trail braiding evar.
Posted by JonnyFrancais at 09:08 PM on 10-24-2011
That was rad. Nice change of those big whip videos of whistler...
Posted by Sethimus at 09:43 AM on 10-26-2011
YouTube Video
ERROR: If you can see this, then YouTube is down or you don't have Flash installed.


also cool
Posted by syngltrkmnd at 07:53 PM on 10-26-2011
Wow - that was really great! Their previous vids were good, but this just goes up a notch. I really dig the non-traditional content - nothin' wrong with "Whistler whips" but this is really unique. The stall and off move at 2:50 was insane! It made me gasp - "Wait! the guy's going to endo? What?" Great stuff.