Lessons learned

had to happen – I have crashed my trials bike. A combination of mud, a steep slope and a novice rider trying to work out the endless permutations of throttle, speed and angle for the perfect ascent, make for uneasy bed fellows. Perhaps ironically though, it wasn’t the tyres of the bike that gave up the struggle against gravity, it was the less-than-grippy sole of the rider’s boot, when a big dab to try and keep the plot upright resulted in an inelegant version of the