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400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« on: January 14, 2007, 12:31:42 AM »
Check out this guy in Ipswich, UK who went trials riding on his 400F.  A member here?

www.factsurplus.co.uk/cb400f.html
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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2007, 04:16:40 AM »
Awww hell Steve.......why not????? I've seen way crazier things than this!!!!!
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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2007, 08:44:33 AM »
Trials must be different in the UK...

Aren't trials bikes here in the USA little lightweight perfectly balanced things with no seats, where you jump around on obstacles and if you put you feet on the ground you lose points?


Coolest thing in the world  ;D

(actually now that I watched that video to the end, it was in Yorkshire!  Must not be different in the UK :P)
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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2007, 09:11:48 AM »
Yes they are the same here - hence my astonishment that anyone would want to ride a 400/4 in a trial.

If you look at the site, you can see photos of him riding it in the competition.

I've emailed a question as he's only 150 miles up the road...
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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2007, 09:15:05 AM »
My '76 is frowning at me as I looked at those pics!

I had to reassure her - - NEVER!!!!!!!

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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2007, 09:58:07 AM »
Trials must be different in the UK...

Aren't trials bikes here in the USA little lightweight perfectly balanced things with no seats, where you jump around on obstacles and if you put you feet on the ground you lose points?


i think dammit's point may have been that it didn't really look like a trials course... just some offroad riding.  until i see that cb400/f climb a vertical 10foot wall, he's not trials riding  ;)

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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2007, 10:40:11 AM »
 I wonder how he got on in the trial? It’s not something I’d try with my 400, I broke my sump on a high kerb they don’t have much ground clearance.

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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2007, 11:31:22 AM »
How'd you break the sump with that expanse of exhaust in the way?
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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2007, 11:38:45 AM »
Most trials are the really tight courses theough woods, over boulders etc. The type here though is a long distance trial that is less about the really athletic riding through streams, up rocks etc, but more general off road lanes, steep but very slippery hills etc. with usually long road sections in-between.

Sometimes you find production car classes as well, so they aren't technically as difficult and hence don't require the same level of balance and delicate touch, but a lot of persistence and hanging on or (or pushing like mad)

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Re: 400/4 as a Trials Bike (yes you read that right...)
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2007, 11:54:16 AM »
How'd you break the sump with that expanse of exhaust in the way?

I flattened the exhaust and bent the main stand lugs also, moral of the story is go around roundabouts and don’t try and go straight on ;D