This bloke is fuggin' amazing!

[Crasherfromwayback]

I think he also won one of those "Golden Handlebars" races at Manfeild many moons ago, when he was Road Racing.

That was done on trials tyres no less.....

[scott411]

big call riding the aprillia twin, stefan is not ht ebiggest guy around and the apirllia will be a hand full off road, he has great throttle control but it won;t be easy,

good luck, i hope he has more luck than Darryl Atkins did this year,

[Crasherfromwayback]

big call riding the aprillia twin, stefan is not ht ebiggest guy around and the apirllia will be a hand full off road, he has great throttle control but it won;t be easy,

good luck, i hope he has more luck than Darryl Atkins did this year,

He's a short arse alright....but with his trials skills mate....it won't matter!

[merv]

Remember I told you all about this guy way back here http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=5633 but you didn't seem so interested then.

[Motu]

He's a short arse alright....but with his trials skills mate....it won't matter!

I reckon his trials background has helped Stefan considerably....throttle control and balance,his feel for traction and being able to put his tyres millimetres from where he wants,the ability to read terrain and pick a line...these abilities put him way ahead of any MX or enduro based rider.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I reckon his trials background has helped Stefan considerably....throttle control and balance,his feel for traction and being able to put his tyres millimetres from where he wants,the ability to read terrain and pick a line...these abilities put him way ahead of any MX or enduro based rider.

How right you are Motu.....it was once I'd gone out in the hills with Steve Hope and Stefan on trials bikes that I kept at him to go road racing.....

I thought I'd seen it all on bikes...but what I saw Stefan do that day on a trials bike made me feel 100% novice like!

The way he can find traction where there is none....to see him leap up onto 20ft high slippery boulders (and I exaggerate not!)....has to be seen.

[Coyote]

The way he can find traction where there is none....to see him leap up onto 20ft high slippery boulders (and I exaggerate not!)....has to be seen.

Trials bikes are excellent for traction though. The Porirua MX track has a few steep, slippery hills that are easy on the Montesa. In saying that that's still incredible

How would Stephan compare to the trials champs riding now? In fact I don't know who they are, I haven't been following the world champs since around 2004 and then we had to get rid of Sky. Is Dougie Lampkin still at the top?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Trials bikes are excellent for traction though. The Porirua MX track has a few steep, slippery hills that are easy on the Montesa. In saying that that's still incredible

How would Stephan compare to the trials champs riding now? In fact I don't know who they are, I haven't been following the world champs since around 2004 and then we had to get rid of Sky. Is Dougie Lampkin still at the top?

Well Stefan was a youth world trials champion, and I've no doubt if he'd kept going with it would've cut it....it doesn't seem to matter what the hell it is....
Like I said....the road race boys are just lucky he didn't choose that route...

[Motu]

It was hoped he'd be our first World Trials Champion - but what the hell,what he has done is just bloody impressive anyway.The crime is no one knows or cares....

[Crasherfromwayback]

I do!......