(or, anybody know where I can get a trials bike cheap?)
I spend a reasonable chunk of time each week watching my kids ride their bikes around the playground, so I figured having a 20" trials bike (or heck, even a street/BMX bike) might be fun to tool around with them (and potentially break something). Anybody have an old bike sitting around they'd like to sell? Or, anybody have a source for reasonably priced bikes? It seems a few years ago, you could get a Monty for cheap, but I can't find anyone in the U.S. that carries one...
Yeah, the supply of modified trials bikes seems to have dried up. I'm guessing it goes with the steep decline in formal competitions, and the general move towards 26" bikes.
I actually do have one of my trials bikes still around and just started putting it back together... I last competed in trials in 2000 if I remember correct.
there are a lot of these hanging around in the Altoona-St. College area. Quite a number of x-trials racers up there including one x-world champ, Sean Miller. Bill Blyler from hollidaysburg. Dwight Kennedy, Jr. in state college.
Also, contact Jay DeJesus from EWR - he and my college roomies just restarted the company (but you know that already).
Too bad the school lot is so flat and plain. Not much to play on.
I got nothing. Ebay?
My oldest almost has the 2 wheeler down, I'm sure to be hanging out there too. Maybe the city won't mind some North Shore style building going on there?
Yeah, definitely not a lot going on there...yet.
The more the merrier....
I've owned trials bikes via Sean Miller and Jay DeJesus before... I currently own Jay's first EWR, #1, his mod that he rode in the world championships in Europe in the early nineties. And at one point I had a Monty X-Lite stock bike from Sean Miller that was stupid light - like 18lbs, which for 7 or 8 years ago was pretty wild.
If you guys are thinking about building some fun stuff over here in Morningside let me know. I'd definitely be down to help out.
If only I lived in jolly ol' England, as there are tons of affordable, new bikes available. I'd consider a 26" urban bike, too, but I'm not ready to drop that much money. There are few bikes on eBay, too, but they're hard to ferret out (searching for "trials bike" gives you lots of TT bikes...)
george miller (sean's dad) is in the phone book for Hollidaysburg, PA.
also William Blyler (beaver street) hollidaysburg, PA.
I have a strong feeling there are some trials bikes collecting dust...
observedtrials.net is a fairly active messageboard that has a decent For Sale section.
