As I wrote earlier this week I happened to find out that the Front Wheel Tap is a pretty easy technique compared to other things I learned over the months. Here's the video (and a slomo) of yesterdays practice. The wall is 72cm high. Now I can get up there with a normal Pedal Up as well but with a Front Wheel Tap it's so much easier. Just have to get the distance right.

This weekend I went riding again and managed to do some things I hadn't been able to do before. For example, as I was trying to pedal up a wall I accidentally hit it with my front wheel only to find out that this technique isn't as hard to do as I had thought.

Tried some static hops today. Even though I'm getting higher every day I still need too much time to find the right position to jump.

Yesterday I went out with some guys who really know how to trial. :)

Nothing new today actually except that I've tried a up to front w/o any success. I guess I should start with lower obstacles and actually lifting my front wheel. As it is now, it's only a rolling onto the obstacle with lifting of the rear wheel in the end. :D

While the static hop gets easier by the day my BWHs are still a little unstable but I'm working on it.

As of today I can pedal up onto 72cm more or less constantly.

A couple days ago my chain snapped and I fell down rather hard doing a drop from a tree stump about 50cm high. As this happened with a half link in my chain I am rather reluctant to keep using them. Unfortunately, the 74Kingz tensioner doesn't fit so I had to build myself a spoke tensioner that works perfectly.

Last practice I did some pedal ups and as I have a bad habit of jumping onto the obstacle with both feet whenever I seem to fail the attempt, I hurt myself with the pedal pins. Actually, it didn't really hurt but annoyed me the entire day.



As you can see in the vid, my gaps are getting better and better. The gap onto the tree stump feels kinda simple now and judging from the video, I could jump way further, putting more force into my jumps.

Three days ago my chain snapped on me as I was dropping down a tree stump. Now I'm not very confident anymore when it comes to using a half link in my chain. This is why I bough a 74kings chain tensioner from a Trials Forum member. Unfortunately, Royal Mail takes pretty long to ship things from the UK to Germany. I'll won't be able to ride until it arrives as I'm not going to use a half link!!!

I was very lucky when it happened and very thankful that it happened later on that day as I was dropping from higher heights and onto concrete before. The chain snapped on me dropping onto grass...