The Biggest Trials Links Page Anywhere

These links are mostly organized by country. Most countries have one main trials association site, which I've highlighted. Please send me any new links or corrections.

N.B. I have DSL, which like cable, is 10 to 100 times faster than a dial up connection. As a result, I am no longer so critical of picture laden sites which load slowly. If I say a site has lots of pics though, beware if you have a dial up.

(Last updated on May 212001.)

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Particularly Useful Trials Links

• Biketrials.com This is where most of the action is taking place with homepages these days. The site also has product stuff, free email and mostly california event coverage.
• Trials Action - The Trials Motorcycle Page Everything you could possibly want to know about motorcycle trials. Includes excellent event coverage.
• Topica.com The trials mailing list
• The Trialsin Shop This is place to buy specialist trials stuff in British Columbia
• TrialsinUSA Supplier of trials bikes, parts, and videos.
• Calculated Risk Films These are the people who brought you Revolution and Evolve, the best trials videos to date.
• Observed Trials Magazine The website of North America's only trials magazine. My Candian trials scene column appears here.

Trials Competition Related Pages

• Union Cyclist International Homepage . World cycling's governing body. They run an alternative (mostly French based) world trials championship to the BIU's championship. You can also skip straight to the UCI trials page

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Pro Rider Sites

• Ryan Leech.com Ryan has an excellent diary which he updates regularly
• Jeff Lensoky.com Read all about where Jeff's doing demos, and all his media stuff etc. Nice page.
• Lance Trappe's Cannondale Page This page just has pics and some schedule information.
• Hans Rey.com This is the official site of Hans "No Way" Rey. This site has his demo schedule amongst other things so you can find out when Hans will be in your area.

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American Trials Sites

Regional Associations and Personal Sites with Regional Information

• Chicagotrials A classic local site. Has lots of rider bios and short films.
• Texas Bike Trials Has quite a lot of info on the small but perfectly formed Texas trials scene.
• Gary Lessner's Page Formerly Vaughn Micciche's page. A directory of places to ride in PA and MD and surrounds.
• Peter Wilk's Trials Page The site for all your EFTA needs also has killer Motorama 99 coverage.
• The Eastern Fat Tire Association Doesn't have anything that Wilk's site won't tell you
• Chip's Page Home of the Memphis trials club. Has Mena AS and Devil's Den pics and results from 1998, as well as local photos

Rider's Sites

• Mike Melchior's Page . Review to come
• Kevin Brody's Page Kevin is the EFTA Trials coordinator, as well as riding for Ted Wojcik bikes.

FAQ Sites with Tips and Pointers

• Daiske Koya Some useful brake tips here
• Kevins Mountain Bike Observed Trials Page Has an excellent list of reasons the seat on a trials bike is all the way down!
• Doug White's NCS and South East information page Doug was running the NCS Trials series through 1998. This page still has some useful stuff though, like rules for bunny hop and gap contests.
• Matt Stinson's Page Lots of tips.

Older/Abandoned Sites

• Mark Brook's Trials Message Board This was new in 01/00, so we'll see what kind of message flow happens
• The Observed Trials Homepage Chad McNeese's first ever on the web trials page. Some good stuff, but not updated since Feb '96
• Danny Schneider's Trials Page This site has not been updated since March 1997. Lots of stuff though.
• Sean Knoflick's Page This page has excellent coverage of the Lake Padden event in Bellingham WA in 1998. Not updated since then though.
• Tim Moffett's Trials Page Lots of pictures and video clips.
• Tim Moore's Trials Web site Good collection of pictures here.
• Ryan Mason's Trials Page More pictures of Hans and Libor. This site was abandoned sometime around 1997.
• Scott (Berrywise's) Page Your online repository of XC bike w/ SPD college study break dorm building trials MPG's.

Local Stuff

• East Coast Hardcore - Go for the intro!
• The Yahoo Trials Page Only lists about 6 actual trials pages, so I don't know why I have it here.
• East Coast Trials Ryan's Trials Page
• Brian Cooper's SIUC Page. Has an actual map of the SIUC campus with all the riding spots marked. Cool!
• Andy Mayer's Trials Page A few neat tidbits and some nice photos
• Clay Sturman's Page Clay was an outstanding guy and a great rider. We will miss him.
• Daiske Koya's Site These are his Motorama pictures at any rate.
• The CSU page. This is the colorado state U crew

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Argentinian Trials Sites

• Daniel Mastracchio's Argentinian Trials Page An excellent site, all in Spanish. Includes collection of Agentinian rider bios, and lets you vote for your fave rider, and fave trials web page.

Australian Trials Sites

• Hatsuho Wantanabe's Page There's some good east coast comp stories and pics here
• The Western Australian Trials Page Abandoned circa 1999
• A Mod Rider This is is a bunch of pictures of some non-helmet wearing Western Autralian loading dock specialist on a mod bike. Nice shots of the Indian ocean in the background though. Slow loading too, thank god for DSL.
• Victrials If this site were a dinosaur, it would be Flashasarus Rex!

Belgian Trials Sites

• Thierry Klinkenberg's Homepage Thierry is one of the top stock riders in the world. Sadly, this page was last updated in May of 1998.

Canadian Trials Sites

• JoeClark.org Joe is the greatest writer to ever consider trials. Look for the article on the 1998 Alley Cat Scramble.
• Ryan Senechal's Page This is also the OTS page Ryan is the Ontario Championships organizer.
• Brian Hong Online . Brian is an Vancouver area pro, and factory Yess rider.
• The Baia Brothers' Site. This is Jason, Sean and Stevie's site. They live in Anmore BC. Stevie is the eight year old seen on Evolve.
• Mike Bentham's Site Mike is a Victoria BC based pro rider
• The Canadian Pacific Trials Association This is the CPTA's official site. Although there's no bike trials coverage (it's all moto stuff) there is a map to the Ioco facility where all the comps are held.
• Snipe's Urban Assault Page I think these guys are from Abbotsford BC, east of Vancouver. If you like urban pictures taken at night....
• Trial Quebec Hugo Piche's site on what's happening in Quebec. It's in French but that shouldn't stop anyone.
• Peter Hueber's Page. A Vancouver area rider. The Site crashes IE5 for MAc
• Nelson Papel's Page Has a bit of personal info and on of the largest bicycle links lists around. Nelson is a great rider, in the street tradition.
• Mike Gevaerts' Trials page This page originates in Ontario, and has a few tidbits, but not much local info
• Riding with Ryan Leech Excellent multiexposure digital pics of Ryan Leech doing various lines.

Chinese Sites

• A Chinese Trials Page Obviously in Chinese. Believe it or not, as of 01/2000, this page has about the biggest collection of trials bike specs anywhere.
• Panpa Has a bunch of tutorial stuff with decent graphics and more.

Columbian Trials Pages

• El Biketrial en Columbia This spanish language site looks really good. It includes a history of trials in Columbia.
• Columbian Biketrial This one gets updated a lot (as of early 2001) so it's worth a look.
• Monty Columbia The name says it all

Czech Trials Sites

• Cyklotrial A Czech trials club page

Danish Trials Sites

• Trial Bike Klub DK As far as I know the only Danish trials site.
• Dennis Rievold This is the page of Denmark's National Champ
• Thomas Boesgaard's Page This page is effectively down (06/01) for now

Finnish Trials Sites

• Sadly, mtbfrenzy disappeared recently

French Trials Sites

• Trashzen's Site All in English no less. Well done site.
• Marc Cassio's Site. Marc is a pro trials rider
• Planet Trial New in 03/2000. Look like it will have good info.
• Trial Atao A French site from Brittanny, maintained by Vario bike addicts (nice pics and surroundings, best trials tracks ever)
• Blanker's Zone Looks like an excellent site.
• Marc Vinco Flying Club
• Coupe de France VTT Trial This is UCI affiliated.
• Jeannot and Pierrots VTT TRIALS Frames gone mad
• Bretagne Trials - Lots of event info for Northern France.
• No Po GoLots here - photos, tutorials, flash etc

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German Trials Sites

• BikeTrial.de Looks like a serious site. Has 1998 results and the 1999 schedule.
• Tom Dernelsons's Bike Trials A very serious looking site, with a lot of info. Most the German links on this page come from there
• Elmar Hopperdietzel's Page. Has pretty complete schedule and results information, including stories about events. German only.
• Steffen Stusaks Trial Page Tolle Pics!!! (hab ein paar davon ge...liehen !!!)
• Two 4 Fun Trialshowteam aus Bonn (viele Pics !)
• Z¸rich Velo Trial Jau, ganz nett !!!
• Crazy Pages (Mehr f¸r MTBler!)
• Trial in Rosenheim (Tolle Seite mit detaillierter Fahrtechnik-Seite von Stefan Schlie !)

Japanese Trials Sites

• Pat Morrow's Can/Jap Trials Page Pat hails from Calgary, and gives a great Western look at Japanese trials. He explains where the lingo like "daniel trials" comes from.
• The BJU Homepage. That's right folks, "Lets Biketrial" is back!
• Sigetaka Emoto's Page The best place to find BIU and Japan trials info in English
• Kenji Minami's Pagel . Pat Morrow's friend. It's a big and involved page.
• Anko's Page Killer links section
• Bike Trial I think this a club or school sports page.
• My Road A Bike Shop. Also attached to the Hamamatsu Trials Club and has a very good links section.
• Masaya Bike Store This shop has some trials involvement
• Mio Suemasa's Page . This one of the two top women biketrial riders on the planet. It looks as though she's been branching out more into downhill. Smart move.
• Kazuki Terai's Page. Terai is a minime level rider who is better than just about anyone in the world of any age.
• Keigu Arizono's Page Arizono is the top Stock rider in Japan. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot here though.
• Kintori Online Biketrials News . Like the name says
• Someone's 1997 Itadori trip This guy went to Itadori in 1997 and took some pictures. Yay
• Satoshi Yoshida's Page Lots of good pictures from Itadori (08/98)
• Itadori Region Page This is a tourist information page for the Itadori region
• Itadori Competition Homepage ? I'm not sure but this might be the official page for the world championship finals
• Mizuguti Not much here.
• Nakayama Bike Trial I don't think there has been anything new here since about 1996.
• Japanese Trials Event About some event back in August of 1998. Don't see any links
• Mituru's Page . Wierd
• Kawachi's Homepage Has a like to a big section called "All about Mizuya" That might be a rider
• Fvelo Trials Pages No idea
• Moving 2Wheels Has a LOT of pictures of novice riders
• 1814 Not really anything of interest.
• Konz's Page Lots more pictures of beginner riders
• Team Hurricane Trials page
• Team Rock On This is another club page, and again has lots of info and results.
• Konma's Homepage has a 23 page illustrated tutorial which you can download. There seems to be a problem with Adobe Acrobat Reader finding the right Kanji font though.
• Goro Kosaka's MTB Trials and BMX Street Page Not updated since 10/98, but killer animated gifs.

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Polish Trials Sites

• Team Different's Trials Page Looks like a good page, although it was loading slow when I visited.
• CykloTrial An awful lot of pictures of Spanish riders for a Polish site. This might be the Polish Monty importer, but how would I know, my Polish sucks.
• Polish Biketrials Association . There some news bits and stuff here. I can't tell what comp info they have

Russian Trials Sites

• Batch Someone put a huge amount of effort into this site, which just has some pics of a prototype Ti frame, and some Moscow urban whatever. I've always said Russians were mysterious.
• XTC I can't get the cyrillic on this site to come out right, so I have no idea. Looks like a club page

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Singapore Trials Sites

• Team Rendezvous Trials The team based out of Douglas Roger's shop which is the Singapore Magura importer and also sells bashguards and stuff.
• Sze Wei's Homepage Not much going on here as of 06/2000, but 2000 round results are up.
• Sze Wei's Competition Page Updates ceased around July 1999
• Colin Wan's Page Really not much save a few photos.
• mIRC channel #observed_biketrials As advertised

Slovakian Trials Sites

• Cyklotriale (Slovakian?)

Spanish Trials Sites

• Biketrial Spain. This looks like THE site. A lot is in Englsih too.
• 1996 Castelseras results and some commentary More endearingly bad translation, and a few good photographs
• Spanish Trialsin This Spanish language site is mostly pictures of Ot Pi, etc. It might eventually actually tell us something about Spanish trials though. You never know.
• Trialsport This is the site of the Parramon brothers and appeears in both Spansh and Catalan.
• Pietrabiketrial I think this is the site of another Spanish pro who does demos etc, but I can't be sure.
• David Cachon's site David is a well kown Spinish Pro. This site is in English and Spanish

Swedish Trials Sites

• Emily's Trials Page The cutest trials page on the web. No updates since probably 1997
• Biketrial Sweden Has results and all the other important stuff. This is one of the best trials sites anywhere
• Fat Tire Fun Reine Jonsson's excellent page.
• Extreme Trials A Swedish team. Informative page but no updates since 12/98
• Oak Mountain Trials All in Swedish, but that's OK
• Daniels hemsida om cykel Also all in Swedish

Swiss Trials Sites

• Velo Trial This appears to be the main page for the UCI affiliated Swiss trials organization. It has a nice calendar.
• Velo Trial (ZURiNFO)
• Velo Trial-Club Zurich

U.K. Trials Sites

• The Essex Trials Club Page If it's happening in Britain, you can find it on this site.
• The MAD Team . This is a major UK trials demo team. I'm not sure who's on it though.
• Jamie Mathews' Site Good bike 2000 pics
• Trialsin - Not sure if this site is up yet
• James Kirkby's Site Lots of updates (01/00) lots of info about the man. Looks to be sport levelish
• Luke and Louis's Site Some work has been sunk into this site.
• Chain Gang . Check out the technique section. They're doing much of it wrong!
• The Yorkshire Tykes . These guys run a trials series in Yorkshire
• Alex Butcher's Trials Page So far long on web effects, but short on actual information. New as of 12/97
• Dave Dennis's Page This is a typically ambitious site, with lots of-so far-(12/99) unfinished sections. It will be good if he finishes it though.
• An annoying Trials Site This is the site of some non-helmet wearing guy from the UK who never put his name anywhere.
• xtremetrials As Hawsie once said, "not bothered really...not bothered at all"
• Dave's Page Lots of pics and stuff
• Jack Dixon's Page Review to come
• James Eastham's Page Not sure if this is UK or not.
• A Temporary BIKE 2000 pics page
• Newbury Trials This is from the southampton area crew
• Trials is Mad Cool except for the lack of helmets and the Jordan pics. Jordan is a UK "supermodel" who is often seen at F1 races. We're talking super ultra trash.
• Morecamb trials. Stuff! No Jordan though.
• CM Trials Whatever.

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Manufacturers and Shops

• Colorado Trials Sells Montys and Mountain Boards (!!?)
• Kule Komponents . This little Colorado Company makes trials parts, including stock trials bike frames
• Steed Cycles Vancouver North Shore hot shop run by people who are great trials riders.
• Roach Clothing The best cycling clothing. Period.
• Heavy Tools home page ...ATB, BMX, Snow Boards...text mostly in German
• Pace (UK) Pace makes a stock frame
• Pashley (UK) This old maker of british bikes makes a trials frame. The sponsor the Tounge bothers, who are featured on the site in the P-Team area.
• Norco (Canada) Currently Canada's (and I think North America's) only major bike company which manufactures a trials bike
• Crescent (Sweden) They make a trials bike which was designed by Swedish stock ace Martin Klievard. This is what Monty stock bikes should look like.
• Monty Bikes, parts etc. Comes with endearing English errors
• Goatwheels - Home of the Koza mod bike
• Monty USA Monty's American distribution arm
• Magura When you're serious about stopping
• Magura Country A general Magura technical page
• Threshold Designs - A great place for bashguards and exotic brake boosters
• Cosmopolitan Motors Old US Monty importer and current place where you can get Montys
• Planet X Bikes - A UK builder of the Zebbi Bike
• Namaiki Bikes . They don't make a trials bike but have the best descriptions of their DS bike ever.
• The Death Videos. Death II was pretty funny. I haven't seen Death III
• Durgen Designs All sorts of odd stuff

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Other Cycling Links (Non-Trials)

• The West Coast School of Mountain Biking
  I teach trials at the WCSMB with my teammate Ryan Leech.
• 10-36 Race Timing
  This is BC's most widely used off-road race timing company. Results are usually uploaded within a day or two of an event
• STAT Timing
  This site gets immediate results from Stat timed races.
• Velonews Interactive.
  Velonews is pretty good with results and international cycling news.
• Canadian Cyclist.
  This site has a daily news site which is by far the best place to get news and results from Canadian races and riders abroad.
• Cycling BC
  This is the governing body for cycling in British Columbia, and is where you have to go to get event sanctions.
• The North Shore Mountain Bike Association
  The NSMBA is critical to the future of technical riding in the lower mainland.
• Hajduk's Hideout Mountains
  This is a pretty serious attempt at cataloging BC's extreme trails.
• Dangerous Dan Cowan's Burley Riding Page
  Danger is kind of a North Shore legend.
• BC Mountain Bike Directory - a comprehensive site featuring links to trails, advocacy, manufacturers, personal homepages, events... not to be missed if you're interested in BC cycling.
• Cycle Gossip - This is a road oriented site, but has interesting European news.

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