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Seeing this thread really shows me how narrow minded some taiwanese people are. Judging from your post, I highly doubt that you have any credible knowledge towards the sport of bike trials. Maybe It's time I educated you a little.

I am a trials rider from Canada who is visiting Taiwan for the summer. I met a bunch of trials riders on a online taiwanese forum who have treated me with more respect and have been nothing but hospitable, even though they have never met me in person. Taiwan has a great trials community, and it is unfair for you to be prejudice against them.

These trials riders put in a lot of effort to show me around the beautiful island of Taiwan, just because we all have so much passion for the same sport. Just as I was beginning to feel impressed with how everyone was treating me, I read a thread like this. What kind of research have you done for you to feel like you have any right to turn other readers against us?

Trials is a very new sport, especially in Taiwan. There is not enough publicity for us to get designated practice areas like bmx riders and skaters. Therefore, we must resort to riding on the street. You can be assured that we are doing everything we can to get noticed. If you want to complain about us riding on the street, maybe you should put in an effort and promote our sport. Every sport starts somewhere. Taiwan certainly does not need people like you to slow down its progression with recreational activities.

Trials is an extremely calculated sport, and we always minimize the risk to our audience whenever we ride on an obstacle. Did you really feel like you were in any realistic danger while we were riding? Maybe you should take a look at the streets in taiwan, and how people drive and ride their mopeds.

If our intentions are really as poor as you try to make it out to be, we wouldn't bother waiting until there is an opening to do our moves. We don't mean any harm, so why don't you look at it as free entertainment.

Oh and by the way, this post is in English, I'm not sure if you've heard of that. Probably want to try learning ;)