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14-03-2008, 11:32 AM
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I've been riding in trials for a number of years now, just getting properly back into it recently. My eldest has been expressing a rather keen interest in riding the saturday schoolboy trials. Was his 8th b'day last monday. Had this in the garage for him coming home from school
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14-03-2008, 12:53 PM
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Brilliant. He must be over the moon! I would have been! 
Better get practising your panning technique for the races
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14-03-2008, 1:12 PM
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Lucky lad, what a great present
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Aye his face was a picture. He was genuinely gobsmacked.
I opened the garage door as we were pulling on to the drive, his jaw just fell open when he saw it there all covered in ballons and stuff.
Happy Days
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14-03-2008, 2:39 PM
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Gosh, what a lucky young fella
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AAHH to be a child again. But do us men really grow up?  Dont ask the missus.
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Superb!
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Lucky boy, the best I could do at 8 was to attach a card to my push bike's wheel and pretend it was a motorbike  .
I assume this is for foot up trials, so photos should be fairly easy as it must be the slowest form of motorsport invented, they spend a lot of time balancing dead still.
Mike
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14-03-2008, 5:54 PM
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Cool! How much fun is that. I'll bet he loves it.
You should get a properly fitting helmet though - his face will be mush if he lands on it with the helmet leaning that far back.
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14-03-2008, 6:11 PM
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Originally Posted by jomike Lucky boy, the best I could do at 8 was to attach a card to my push bike's wheel and pretend it was a motorbike  .
I assume this is for foot up trials, so photos should be fairly easy as it must be the slowest form of motorsport invented, they spend a lot of time balancing dead still.
Mike | Thats right, but we ride no stop rules a lot of the time. Still wont be needing to do much panning though
Practise day tomorrow, he's a little excited
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