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THE ONE DISCIPLINE OF motorcycling I hadn’t done and have always wanted to, was trials riding. It fascinates me how the professionals launch themselves vertically over obstacles that you never thought possible to climb, so when Sherco Australia invited me along on their 2022 Trials range launch I was 101 percent in! Trials riding is not something we’ve covered in this magazine before, but I totally think it’s a discipline you should consider training yourself in.

The launch was held at Bilpin Moto Adventures with the guidance of (Disco) Dave Wilson and current Sherco Trials racer, Tim Coleman. They ran us through a training course in the morning to get us all up to speed with how a trials bike works and the various techniques required to ride over obstacles, ones which I thought would be impossible (for me).

I had never ridden a trials bike before so the feeling