Trials riding tutorials to learn bike trials and improve your mtb riding skills.

TrashZen started in Belgium
(out of frustration over a broken wrist, the whole summer of 1998 wasted...)
Not being able to ride for a while, I decided to experiment with Internet but couldn't find any decent learning material. So I decided to set up a web page to post my observations as I progressed in trials riding, later came the illustrations. Initially, this was pretty much a personal web page... with most photos from Brussels were I lived at the time. Then I moved to Barcelona (too much rain in Belgium I say, although Pepito tends to deny this observation).

trials riding tutorials
...some pedal hop transitions in Paris

With more riders demonstrating the moves, TrashZen expanded and became a bit more complete. After 2.5 years of fantastic trials riding conditions, I moved again to...hemm...sunny Cambridge in the UK.

Apparently, there isn't just ultra-clean and tidy British lawn. Came more urban riding in the horizon, and long adaptation to the UK-style riding.
I did ride a lot on the Toxsin. Recently changed to the Atomz (white frame)
I have moved back to France in 2010, Paris is a big enough city to have some decent urban riding I guess.

When I get an idea on how to explain a move or someone shows me a new technique, I try to share the info. Not always easy to get some good pictures though, but digital cameras are just amazing...

An aerial transition from regular mountain biking to bike trials...
Some other odd bikes that I had in the past (not just biketrials).

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