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I didn't change my filter either day, it wouldn't idle at all Sunday and wouldn't start when I got home. Thanks for the video, I've never taken mine apart but maybe I will now

Thank for the all the trials content. The way you break down trials into small bites is amazing. ✊

Your air filter doesn't look very blue, check you oil it enough after cleaning.

I downloaded but cannot register

Excellent Tom. I got the Ios version app but getting “unexpected error “ msg while trying to sign up.

Excited to check it out, have already downloaded the app, and thank you for the enhanced free wheelie course!

I love it!

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That's a worrying amount of dirt getting past the filter. I'd double check your filter oiling procedures. It also seems like the air filter just pushes into the intake hose without a clamp? Seems like prime place for dust to enter.

What fuel do you run

Considering to buy a 2022 nitro, this doesn’t encourage me, makes me think of the simplicity of carbs, no elect, no frills bikes…

Excellent video! ! ! Very well filmed and organized !

That was awesome..

Wow love it👌👌

On my TRS, 9 tooth on the front was too low for me, ended up going up 2 teeth on the rear and it's pretty much perfect, both for trials sections and trail riding.

Agreed. In the old days 1960s this is how we did it. We ordinary folk had to modify old street bikes. Geared down a LOT more than one tooth to the point where it could climb a brick wall just about. Most importantly the low gearing gave enormous leverage without wheel spin. Why do we think 4x4s have low range?

It feels like this is trying to avoid learning one of the most important skills in trial riding, the use of the clutch. You don't need the clutch when riding in a low gear, but mastering the use of the clutch significantly improves your riding and is also a safety factor. But it all ultimately comes down to what you want from trial riding. The easiest path is not always the best path to learn.

Hey man, I have to say thank you! What a great video and explanation of things you may think you know, but you don’t really know. I just bought my first trials bike last weekend and have been playing with it for the last week the whole time thinking, man I wish there was a structured way that I could learn, all of the things that I need to know to become a better rider. The whole purpose in getting my trials bike was to become a better Enduro bike rider. I just started your course yesterday with the clutch and stance video. Even though it seems a little boring and monotonous I can already see a difference. I look forward to my trials progression. Thank you again.

With Montesa if you have 290cc to 300cc engine my suggestion is to change chain wheel from std 41 teeths to 39, in this way 1st gear is more usable and 2nd/3rd have longer range on ramps. With my 260, even if hardly powered by my remapping, I think standard 41 chain wheel is the better solution. Generally having shorter gearing only means using one gear more for obstacles right for the previous gear... and finally means loosing use of first gear.

Agree with this approach and have done it to my TRS. Another similar improvement for me was putting in a lighter clutch pressure plate.

always a smart change to make. another note, it makes a bike less jumpy off the start.

Agreed. One of the first things I did to my Beta Evo 200 - went from 11 tooth to 10 tooth front sprocket. Though I will say after learning to ride smoothly with the clutch always at the engagement point it probably makes less difference than with the clutch fully engaged.

I geared my TRS 250 down and won’t go back. When I need speed, I have a gearbox. Now 2nd is more friendly for my sportsman level. SPA to you Trials Inc guys

Great interview, Beta not only has one of the best bikes overall, but the customer service and rider support is second to none !!!

keep it in first., and these bikes, no matter what the engine size, are not going anywhere. My 7 year olds e-bicycle can beat my 300cc trials bike in 1st & 2nd & 3rd gear.

Thanks for all your videos and coaching. I appreciate the way you incorporate your faith into your goals. God Bless!

Interesting interview Tom, and lots of good points. 👍I have a 2011 250 Gas Gas and it’s certainly enough bike for me! After replacing a few worn out parts and getting it correctly set up as standard, I am just trying to get used to riding it as it is. As Ray says it’s time on the bike that’s important!

I've found The Zap can be done without popping the clutch. Drive the front wheel approximately 2/3 up the obstacle, suspension compresses, hit the throttle hard while jumping up. The rear wheel still lifts and this eliminates the hardest part of the timing issue, the clutch. Can be totally done without popping the clutch and this can get you up some very large undercut ledges.

Great subject. I rode a 300 TRS, just from personal choice, I'm a bigger guy, I enjoy the larger spread of power. I used to ride a 300 4T , loved the power, didn't enjoy the extra weight. I've done UK national events on 200's and even a 125, I found the higher standard of sections the extra grunt helped Trials is at many levels more about technique power and speed are secondary

Because my bike is primarily used for woods riding and secondarily for trials events, I went 300 and don't regret it, it has the power I need to pull steep hills in high gears, but since it has the low compression head and Dellorto carb, it's a little tamer than most of the 300s, so it never feels like it's getting away from me when riding trials sections. For most adults riding trials, a 250 will absolutely do everything they need it to.

Great interview! Ray is very knowledgeable. All I've had are 300s mainly due to availability in the resale market. My wife had a 125 Beta evo and I definitely felt it was more work to manage developing the power. (A great skill to develop) Its so true theres a sweet spot for mortals like me. However, Im learning to manage the 300 (now on a TRS) and to me it isn't too difficult to ride in the low RPMs where I spend 90% of my time. Do I use the upper end power? Almost never, it has way more than power I'll ever need but my point is it's still really fun and to me manageable with some clutch and throttle control. Almost opposite of a 125 in a way. I even bought a slow throttle tube but haven't installed it. The TRS is just awesome and electric start saves me a bit if energy. Im super happy with it and to me it feels forgiving and controllable. What does Ray say about electric trials bikes like the EM and the nearly infinite ajustability of mapping all in one machine?

I just started on trials a couple months ago, I wanted something forgiving that could help me learn the basic stuff and see if I really liked the sport. I was lucky enough to find a lightly used Sherco Classic YT125 4T, they already had put the 200cc cylinder and the gearing is super tall on it but it is still a 4 stroke so still mellow and really makes you work on the revs to draw any power out of it. Which is great! As Ray said, with a low cc bike I am really learning how to work the clutch and throttle and getting familiar on what revving the engine feels like without the fear of shooting bike away from me. So far I'm not doing any big obstacles, so we'll see how the bike holds up when I get there... but it's definitely gonna take me a while

I ride Beta 250 Evo standard 2023. It is pobably most forgiving trials bike that exists. It was surprising to hear that 250 factory is hardest to ride. Few mates in our club have those. What I like about standart 250 is smooth power delivery. Very predictable clutch engagement. Very easy to start. Cons - plastic front mudguard - brakes quite easily and is expensive. Same goes for the rear tail. 50+ € for the front and 120+€ for the rear. Both break quite easily. Good looking design but bad and expensive for the rider material choice. Air filter gets dirty very quickly.

I'm guessing the newer Beta 80 is very different than our 2006 Beta 80. Our 80 can barely pull me up a hill. If loaded down, the clutch squeals like crazy, and everyone I know says that's normal for that bike - even when my 10 year old kids were on it. But, I know Ray made that newer one work. And I never heard his clutch squeal at the Arizona event.

Nice interview, Ray sounds like he really knows his stuff. I'm definitely getting a Beta 200 RR in a year or two, granted its not going to be the Trial's edition but the off-road :P. I'll get a Trials one day for sure though. If he ever has 3D-Printing problems pass him my way, I have plenty professional experience with it, SLA or FDM.

This is perfect I purchased a 2023 300 standard beta evo I was thinking I needed the 300 because I am a fatty 270 but I couldn’t have been more wrong at the time the bike straight intimated me fast forward a year I am used to the bike now but I would have been more then ok on a 200 or 250

What about the 4T?

As someone who rides a Beta 200, I agree with Ray that it is in a sweet spot. I call it my Goldilocks bike. Not too big that it is scary but it will absolutely do everything my 225 (with gear) pounds need it to do in my local Novice/Sportsman levels. I just can't understand how beginners are constantly being steered towards 250 and 300 bikes. No wonder they don't stick with the sport. Last trial I saw a new woman rider on a TRS 300 Gold riding the beginner course... It was a horrible thing to watch, and she'd have been much better served on a 200 or 250.

I knew nothing about trials and bought a factory 200 and I still know nothing about trials except now I know Ray Peters knows 200 is an ok pick for someone who known nothing about trials.Thanks Ray.

I respect Ray a lot. However, I totally disagree with him on the 250 Factory Beta. I've owned the standard model and 2 of the Factory 250s. I ride Clubman/ Adv Amatuer and I LOVE the 250 Factory engine. I found it very smooth in it's power delivery and it has all the power you'd ever need unless you think you can compete with Pat Smage. That being said, the 250 Standard was very easy to adapt to as well. I ride TRS 250 ONE R now and love it.

You can't go wrong on a 250cc.

Great interview I just upgraded to a 2021 vertigo r3 125 and I feel way better on it

Excellent interview. Thanks for getting to the chance to pick Rays thoughts. May have missed his standard comment that it's not the bike but the rider that wins the day as evidenced by his success on an 80cc bike.

Learn to ride on an old Honda Reflex in my 20s (barely at trials bike). Love your comment "The best trials bike is the one you own and go ride" is a great statement. I've had many bikes since but I was hooked after getting that Reflex.

Nice bike I just got a 2021 vertigo r3 125

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greetings from Spain!!!nice video