No stop USA

[motojunky]

I'm not necessarily a proponent of no-stop as much as I just don't like the idea of watching a guy sit still for an eternity, especially when he's dragging his bike around while doing it. I posted the video because it shows hope for those riders ready to quit over no-stop that trials can still be fun and exciting to watch.

For me, get rid of the foot down while stopped = 1 and find a way to keep things moving and I'm happy. Stop, backwards, sideways, whatever... if the feet are on the pegs I'd call it good. I'm curious to see what other rules might be in the pipeline.

I watched a video online yesterday where a rider was stopping and hopping for every direction change. He was clearly a much better rider than me in that he could do all the hopping, but it looked to me that the turns were perfectly doable in a traditional way. Looked like he'd never really learned to turn, instead learning to hop. Not necessarily right, wrong, good or bad - it just struck me as interesting. Seemed like he was making it a lot harder than it should have been.

[lineaway]

Yes, my whole beef is the all day dab! Take that away and maybe impose a fast time limit. But I`m sure we`ll end up the same rules as FIM. But also the FIM will actually have two sets of rules for trials.

[Sting32]

Originally Posted by lineaway

Yes, my whole beef is the all day dab! Take that away and maybe impose a fast time limit. But I`m sure we`ll end up the same rules as FIM. But also the FIM will actually have two sets of rules for trials.

There would NOT be a whole afternoon dab, if the sections were not overly difficult for the class. That is the rub, with stop allowed, that we give people opportunity to get ready to take on injury risking obstacles. When you go no-stop, you just make them go without any pause, guaranteed to make them move down, or crash...

I believe all the no stop proponents have forgotten that freaking amatures ride what I used to ride in EXPERT or above, on the old bikes on the OLD rules.

The question has always been, how hard do you have to make the sections? combined with, who do you base it on? the sandbaggers? how do you account for guys falling back through the ranks due to age and other problems? The answer has always festered or ended up as, how big of a bottleneck do you see.