It probably has been lost to most who now visit this site but r2wtrials originaly started up as a way for myself, Heath, to contact and then keep in contact with fellow BikeTrials riders around the West Country. This was back in the late 90's when I had moved from East Sussex over to Worle near Weston-Super-Mare to take up a job in a motorcycle shop in Bristol but couldn't afford to buy a Motocycle Trials bike again.
I obtained a small mtb frame and converted it for use as a trials bike... this was in the early days of BikeTrials when there were only a couple of manufacturers making proper Trials kit. I met up with a couple of local lads, Ben and Rob, and we started to learn a bit of hopping. I rode and broke that frame very quickly and then found a cheap Sunn team issue frame, that I also cracked and the company Rep sorted me out a new white team frame as soon as they were available. I met up with a couple of local lads who had taken an interest in trials and through the early days of Biketrials forums on the web Tony dropped me a line from Swindon and after meeting up we eventually rode cycle and motorcycle trials together.

The name "r2w" comes from the item of our cycles that took the most abuse... the Rock Ring, the full name standing for Rock Ring Wreckers, shortened to r2w.

After a year or so of cycles I managed to get back into motorcycle trials and the biketrials side of things gradually faded out and was used only as a way of getting fit. Shortly after starting the motorcycle side of things I met Kev and then Graeme and a few years later Steve and Terry joined us. Steve was about 12 then and about 4 foot tall... now about 6 foot something! Terry hasn't changed much and he can still have an accident in any situation!!!

The motorcycling took over for around 5 years and I sold the cycles but a bad back that prevented me from getting out much last summer and the spirilling costs of driving up into Gloucester and Wales to ride meant I took another look at the BikeTrials world... my god it had changed in the 5 years away!! All weird geometry and new products, and the youg guns riding ability is awesome to watch.
So here we are again, Tony, Kev, Graeme, Steve, Terry and myself hopping around on silly little bicycles!!! Tony and Kev have sold their motorcycles because of time contraints and Steve, Terry and I are still riding the motos... and we may even get Graeme out on his old TY250 again soon, after 4 years. We have also been joined by Kev's son-in-law Mick... who's mad!! He will be our biketrials version of Barry or Burners! And I have now met back with Rob, after 7 years, and he is joining us on the cycles having just purchased a Zoo Pitbull.

Forgot to say... team OGC stands for Old Gits Collective, apart from Steve we are all over 40 years old. There isn't going to be any heroics from us, no 20 foot drop-offs or 360's off the railings (not intentionally anyway!) but what we manage to do we will do with a smile and a bad back!!!!!!!