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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
find a building site and see if you can get hold of them gas pipe reals -- zippy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zippy's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11885 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
you can do alot of things with pallets. you can make giants sawndwich boards. just use you imagination -- manon1wheel Riley ------------------------------------------------------------------------ James_Potter- I fall with my upper body travelling backwards and my lower body travelling forwards from 5' up and hit the concrete with my tailbone and right elbow. It hurt, but I found it quite funny. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ manon1wheel's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9972 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
Most of the pallets I've put in my course have either broken or flex like crazy... pallets are generally only good for stacking to make a taller object. What you need to get are some good 2x4's, 2x6's, 4x4's, etc. if you want to make something permanent and reconfigurable. If you do end up using pallets, make sure to put some braces (small blocks of wood inbetween the slats) to strengthen them a bit. Put a piece of plywood on top of your pallet stack if you want it to really last. If you can score some wooden cable reels or shipping crates, those make good bases for skinnies and ramps. Bend a piece of rebar into a little L and drive it into the ground, through a reel or crate, to stabilize the obstacle. Nothing sucks quite like your obstacle toppling underneath you after landing a gap onto it! I've also picked up some tree rounds (1 - 3 foot sections of tree trunk) and they make very stable bases... no rebar needed in most cases... unless you put them on their side. It's interesting to have some round and off-camber obstacles on your course... gapping from flat to flat isn't quite as challenging. As for connecting your obstacles, head to the hardware store and pick up some nails and deck screws. Get nails around 2 1/2" long (to connect 2x4's together) and others that are 4-4 1/2" long to connect fatter stuff. Make sure and get nails with fatty heads on 'em so they don't poke into your tire. Use the nails to connect things that you'll want to reconfigure. Get some nice 3" - 4" deck screws to make more permanent connections... the heads tend to get ground to sh*t when screwing things together. Keep a hammer handy near the course as nails tend to work their way out of "wobbly" obstacles. What I find works best is making one long trials line that's kinda circular in nature so that I can hop into and out of it at any point... when I get good enough to do the whole loop, it's time to reconfigure. I also put some posts / gapping bars inside and outside the loop to give me entry / exit obstacles. Let us know how your course shapes up! -- maestro8 Those are my principles. If you don't like those, I have others. -- Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maestro8's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/7871 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
Mecano Wood -- zippy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zippy's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11885 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
On Tue, 9 May 2006 16:41:05 -0500, trials_uni wrote:
if anyone has any ideas please reply. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/props.htm for some suggestions on how to build simple trials stuff. |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
tires, furniture, cars, pallets, spools, random lumber, bikes(), anything else you got layin round -- unijesse Unicycle For Christ 00000 00000 00000 00000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ unijesse's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10868 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
oooo.............make it out of lego.....that would be really cool actually...good grip ...i wish -- sparrowhawk "I can only speak to myself." —George W. Bush ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sparrowhawk's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11813 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
We heat our house with wood so we usualy have a lot of split wood laying around. I like to stack it up and nail boards to it to make ramps and jumps. We also have a pedal grabbing plank. Your course could be epecially cool if you could build a rock pile for gapping. -- wadebrothers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wadebrothers's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11968 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
my mum ripped my pallets apart after I had a bad stack use ramps and mabey support a plank w/ rope maby (an idea i had for ages now) -- dan de man Jethro wrote: Welcome to Hotel Unifornia. You can check out, but you can never leave. Help yourself to anything in the fridge. And please don't feed the clowns. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dan de man's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/11403 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...
u could get a sleeper or some sort of rail and put it between a few pallets stacked on top of each other to ride across -- tomtrevor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tomtrevor's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12118 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/49297 |
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