Building a Trials course from scratch...need ideas...



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while scootin around on my uni yesterday i noticed this old abondoned
tennis area behind my building...i had seen it before but it never
clicked till now. ive decided to create a trials course in there. i
just need some ideas(maybe even pictures) of what to put in there...ive
never seen a real trials course. i have a way to get some cheap pallets
and theyre doing construction to my building so getting some wood
shouldnt be too much of a problem but i just need to kno what i should
put in. if anyone has any ideas please reply.

thanks
-Phil


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build some skinnies, some sandwich boards, and then get some pallets.
then you have a course that you can switch up.

personally i have 4 sandwich boards, 2 of them are a foot tall when
they are set up and the other ones are about 2 feet tall when they are
set up. i have a few skinnies built out of 2x4s and then i built some
boxes to jump around on. but pallets will work just as well(if not
better) if you can get em.


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go grab/steal some pallets from random grocerie stores

go to construction sites and take trash wood/steal wood.

thats what i do :) accept i dont steal.


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as much as i would love to have a course like in love 99 i dont have
quite that much room...thanks all for the help but i dont really need a
portable course...this is gonna be pretty permanent.


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The idea is not to make a permanent course vs. non-permanent course. You
want to make a course that you can switch up. This week I think you
said you are gapping 2.5 feet, so you build a course with say a 2.5 ft
gap. Next week that will be easy and boring, so you don't want
permanent. Get/make stuff you can move around.

Just get wood and make stuff that'll look interesting to ride on then
use more wood to make it stable. Start off little maybe with a couple
pallets or whatever (though they are good for working on hop heights
they can get a bit boring) then just keep adding and use your
imagination.

Make something like skate ranch from Tony Hawks American Wasteland.

David


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yeah, just go to some grocery stores and ask the manager if they can
spare some pallets. (usually they will throw them in your face) they
are stackable and they are easy to move around


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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.
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If you want to make it interesting, then get random junk that people
have thrown out, like water heaters, car seats, swamp coolers, broken
windows, etc. I find that jumping from one pallet to another gets
pretty boring after a while.


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you can do alot of things with pallets. you can make giants sawndwich
boards. just use you imagination


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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.
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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!


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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.


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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)


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