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You were one of the first riders to use the clutch, were you one of the first riders to hop the rear wheel ?
No, no no. I was one of the best riders to use the clutch, but not the first.
No, no no. I was one of the best riders to use the clutch, but not the first.
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I think that the rider that takes this would be Jordi Tarres. He was not the first to do this but it was the rider who did this so easy and everywhere.
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Jordi Tarres outside his house on his Beta push bike
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One minute a boy and then........
He was coming from the bicycle. One of the riders from France who did this was Thierry Girard who was a very good French trial rider and in fact he was another rider who came from the bicycle.
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The riders who come from this part they move the front wheel, the back wheel, pulling on the handle bars to jump and with very good balance in a static condition.
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You know the story of the trial at this time ? Eddy Lejeune has been the best.
In chronological order, Bernie Schrieber has been the first rider to make a kind of wheelie with the front wheel and use the little wheelie to turn shorter than normal. I don’t know what the name of this in English.
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In between bowing and lofting my cap in the presence of royalty, I genuinely put Eddy up to this photo. As legends go, he's quite a normal guy and not exhibitionist at all :).
After Eddy Lejeune has been the first rider to go back in one section because he had a very good clutch and this clutch allowed you to pull on the clutch hand go back. This was the first time in the story of trial sport when the riders go back …and it was incredible.
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After ….me
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I use the clutch and I make the engine scream and I slip the clutch and I use the clutch after if you prefer and to turn very sharp with out stopping the engine.