Trials bike noob needs help

[Night Falcon]

picking up the bike on Friday and will be riding it on some pretty rugged farm land on Saturday with a bunch of chook chasers. The PO said the bike comes with its own tire guage - fancy that - so will get the opportunity to try out varying degrees of pressure. Think I'll start with 8 and see how she goes? Not likely to be taking on to harder obsticles on my first outing (as there will be too many cameras watching ) it will mostly be "trial" and error getting it sorted....probably more error than trial

[NordieBoy]

Yep, you want a gauge that's accurate at the lower pressures.

Tubeless or tubed?

[Night Falcon]

Yep, you want a gauge that's accurate at the lower pressures.

Tubeless or tubed?

less...which I understand is more suppose they will have rim locks as standard? have to wouldn't they at those pressures, if you can call 4psi pressure!

[Ocean1]

less...which I understand is more suppose they will have rim locks as standard? have to wouldn't they at those pressures, if you can call 4psi pressure!

No rim locks, they'd leak. They're just fucking tight on the beads, and the rims are sometimes knurled.

Edit: And the rim bead profile is different, the beads sit in a slight depression to prevent them collapsing inwards. Makes for a bitch of a job changing tyres in my limited experience.

[NordieBoy]

Edit: And the rim bead profile is different, the beads sit in a slight depression to prevent them collapsing inwards. Makes for a bitch of a job changing tyres in my limited experience.

I can't get them to seat properly on the TT rims.

The DR has the depressing depression on the rear rim too.

[Ocean1]

I can't get them to seat properly on the TT rims.

The DR has the depressing depression on the rear rim too.

I recall someone saying the tubes/tubeless trials tyre bead details are suficiently different that the two systems theoretically wern't interchangeable. Be nice to know from the source.

[F5 Dave]

Be conservative, run em at 4 (with a decent gauge), can always try lower later. Seriously you want them to work like they are designed to, might as well have some traction to burn, esp if you want to try going up or down some banks & surprise yourself with how much grip you can get.

I run my dirtbikes on 12psi (currently Mich S12s) only in very rocky conditions, mostly 10 or down to 8 if the track is slick & there isn't many rocks to give you compression punctures & obviously you pay for some decent thick as a Russian condom, tubes. But that is on a real dirtbike, not some heavy 4 stroke chuffer.

[Night Falcon]

Picked her up today looks even better in the flesh! The hand book says front tyre is tube and rear is tubless. recommended pressures are 5 front 4 rear PO ran it at 4 front 3 rear. its gonna take some getting used to riding a bike with flat tires

Went for a quick ride when i picked it up. was a bit strange taking off in first not having a seat to sit on but the gearing was just what I was looking/hoping for, turns on a dime and 72kg ringing wet


test ride at wairoa cancelled due to too wet....oh well least te farmers will be happy I spose!

[F5 Dave]

you'll get used to that quick. gear lever is out of the way so you set a gear for a section, but again you get used to it.

[Night Falcon]

first practice training....I'm hooked already and so are a few others I think!

[ktm84mxc]

Epic now build a few seesaws and log piles and roll over dat Subaru , mono's and stopies next . 2lt of go juice goes a long way in a trials bike.

[Eddieb]

[Night Falcon]

Went for a bit of a play this afternoon, had a couple of hickups but luckily not caught on film....bent clutch lever after attempting a steep climb and drowned it in a river still learning how light these bikes are and how this lack of weight can work against you in a swift current should be fine once I've flushed out the now pink oil from the crank, wrung out the air cleaner and cleaned out the carb....on the positive side atleast everything is easy to get at

Heres a few clips of the more sedate stuff

[Motu]

You did a wheelie !!! I always wonder why road riders make such a big deal of it. Attack those banks a lot harder, use the momentum and flywheels to take you over the top.

[Night Falcon]

You did a wheelie !!! I always wonder why road riders make such a big deal of it. Attack those banks a lot harder, use the momentum and flywheels to take you over the top.

Thanks for the tip. am used to giving it death to get a 150kg 650 dual sport up steep hills but usually have a bit more run up. Lame wheelies are the only thing I can do to show off