{"id":777,"date":"2021-11-28T22:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T21:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/?page_id=777"},"modified":"2022-10-30T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:51:07","slug":"besancon-1976","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/besancon-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Besan\u00e7on 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Besan\u00e7on 1976 \u2013 Screenshot from the film of Sebastien Alabouvette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On 7 November 2020, Sebastien Alabouvette posted on Facebook about early cycle trials in France. A Super 8 film made in Besan\u00e7on in 1976 1<\/a><\/sup> shows a small cycle trial in the local neighbourhood of La Grette.<\/p>\n

Sebastien Alabouvette was still too young to ride himself at the time. The initiative came from his late uncle \u2018Jojo\u2019 and his friends, who had cobbled something together from old moped and bicycle parts, fitted wide handlebars and were now organising a small event for themselves, long before bicycle trials or BMX officially existed. The children were inspired by the motorcycle trials riders in their neighbourhood and followed their example.<\/p>\n

Whether the small cycle trial documented in the film \u2013 a total of six sections can be seen in the film \u2013 was a one-off event or the beginning of some kind of development is unknown to me. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to obtain any further information about these activities in Besan\u00e7on. In any case, Sebastien Alabouvette's subsequent Facebook posts make it clear that he turned his attention not to cycle trials but to BMX and is working on a historical website about BMX.<\/p>\n

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  1. The link: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sebastien.alabouvette\/posts\/1860466720766984? on 29 November 2021 ↩<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Am 07.11.2020 erschien auf Facebook ein Beitrag von Sebastien Alabouvette, der fr\u00fches Fahrrad-Trial auch in Frankreich dokumentiert. Ein 1976 in Besan\u00e7on entstandener Super 8-Film 1 zeigt ein kleines Fahrrad-Trial im dortigen Viertel la Grette. Sebastien Alabouvette war damals noch zu klein, um selbst mitzufahren. Die Initiative ging von seinem bereits verstorbenen Onkel \u201eJojo\u201c und seinen…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-777","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/777\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gernot-menke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}