This Was A Crazy Bike Choice For This Competition!

Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to bring my new fat bike to the first trials comp of the year. Having ridden my full suspension trail bike at a competition last year I thought a fat bike would be a huge challenge and was a little nervous.

Turns out it wasn't a bad choice after all! Give the video a watch to get my thoughts and see how I got on.

BIG thanks to David and the crew for organising this day and to all the riders for coming along and having a good time. If you'd like to come to a comp yourself I'd highly encourage it and would love to see more MTBers come and challenge their skills. Don't worry about your bike or ability, we're all friendly and you'd have a great time.

Also a BIG thanks to Ross and Rory for helping film :)

Follow @scottish_bike_trial on Instagram for information on Scottish events and if asked I'm sure they'd point you in the right direction for other UK comps too.

If you'd like to understand the rules to help with this video or to learn before you enter then David was nice enough to write them down for me (plus here's a link to the official UCI rules page
https://www.uci.org/regulations/3MyLD... )

"At SBT we now utilise UCI positive scoring rules however in Primary and Novice allow bash and pedal.

To simplify, each participant rides a series of sections, usually 5 sections and 3 laps of the same five.

Four routes within each section, white / Primary, green / Novice, blue / Inter, red / Expert. At National comps also yellow for the Elite riders.

Each competitor gets the section to themselves, no mass starts or riding head to head with someone else.

Within each section, 6 sectors.

You enter Sector one when your front axle crosses the start line, and leave it when your back axle passes through the gate. At that point you are in Sector 2. If you get through sector 1 without a dab you get 10 points, if you dab no points but so long as you don't 5 you can move to the next sector by negotiating the gate and then try to score points in subsequent sectors.

If your back axle passes through the gate and you then come back through that gate you have fived.

If you go through someone else's gate, you have fived.

If any part of your body other than your foot touches anything, you have fived.

If you approach a gate from behind it you have fived.

If you go outside any tape, you have fived. The bike, not you if you put a foot down on the other side of the tape.

If the line between your axles crosses a get marker you have fived.

If both feet end up on the same side of the bike....you have fived..

Last thing you do not get the points for sector 6 until the front axle crosses the end gate."

I hope this was helpful and I hope you enjoyed the video! Red Route next time?

See you next week!

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