Famous Bike Trials Riders

Danny MacAskill · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
The rider who started it all: his 2009 “Inspired Bicycles” edit went viral and defined the modern street-trials genre, followed by films like “Way Back Home”, “Imaginate” and “The Ridge”. He now headlines the Drop and Roll live tour and rides for Santa Cruz.

Fabio Wibmer · 🇦🇹 Austria
Austrian trials-and-MTB phenomenon of the mid-2010s onwards, whose cinematic stunt films — “Fabiolous Escape”, “Home Office”, “Wibmer’s Law” — have drawn hundreds of millions of views and a YouTube following in the millions. He fuses street trials with downhill and urban riding.

Martyn Ashton · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales
Welsh trials champion of the 1990s who reached a huge new audience with the viral 2012–13 “Road Bike Party” films — full trials lines on a carbon road bike. Paralysed in a 2013 demo crash, he returned to ride again in the 2015 film “Back On Track”.

Chris Akrigg · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
A multiple British trials champion of the 2000s turned all-terrain video stylist, famous through the 2010s for impossibly fluid web edits — “A Hill in Spain”, “In the Rough” — across trials, mountain and even fixed-gear bikes. Rides for Whyte Bikes.

Hans “No Way” Rey · 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Germany / USA
A German-born pioneer of mountain-bike trials and freeride, a 1990s icon inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1999 and synonymous with GT Bicycles for decades. Known for globe-spanning adventure-trials films and his Wheels4Life charity.

Vittorio Brumotti · 🇮🇹 Italy
Italian road-bike trials rider and 2010s television star with multiple Guinness World Records, including a 2012 ride atop the Burj Khalifa. A long-running reporter on the satirical TV show Striscia la Notizia.

Kenny Belaey · 🇧🇪 Belgium
“The Magician” — Belgium’s greatest trials rider turned 2010s showman, most famous for riding a slackline strung high above a gorge, fronting the TV series “Big Time Trial Adventure” and performing at NBA games and Red Bull events until his 2021 retirement.

Ot Pi · 🇪🇸 Spain
The Monty dynasty’s star and the showman many credit with carrying bike trials to the world: a US debut at Mammoth in 1988 aged 17, a signature 360 dismount, and demo tours through the 1990s that put the sport in front of mainstream crowds.

Petr Kraus · 🇨🇿 Czechia
The youngest trials world champion of the 1990s became one of the 2000s’ great showmen: Red Bull expedition films from Cappadocia to Greenland, a celebrated section in the Sprung 5 DVD, and a streety style the forums compared to the Trialskings.

Ryan Leech · 🇨🇦 Canada
Canadian trials and mountain-bike rider known from the 2000s for the film “Manifesto” and performances with Cirque du Soleil, who became one of the sport’s most respected skills educators. He now runs the Ryan Leech Connection coaching platform.

Jeff Lenosky · 🇺🇸 USA
American pro nicknamed the “Trail Boss”, one of the most visible US trials riders since the late 1990s, celebrated for YouTube edits cleaning seemingly unrideable trials-to-trail lines. A former bunny-hop height record holder with a long competition pedigree.

Tom Oehler · 🇦🇹 Austria
Austrian rider from Innsbruck, BikeTrial World Champion in 2008 and holder of three world records, who became a long-time Red Bull athlete. His 2010s films moved from pure trials into e-MTB and spectacular high-alpine lines.

Ali Clarkson · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
Glasgow street-trials rider and Drop and Roll team member who became one of trials’ most-followed YouTubers through the 2010s and 2020s, posting weekly tutorials and bike builds. His how-to videos feature throughout our technique manual.

Aaron Lutze — “Super Rider” · 🇺🇸 USA
American creator behind the 2020s “Super Rider” channel, who breaks trials and MTB skills down into clear, drill-based tutorials for beginners. Several of his lessons anchor our how-to manual.

Duncan Shaw · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland
Scottish street-trials rider who co-founded the Drop and Roll Tour with Danny MacAskill in 2014. Known for a powerful urban style and for hosting “The Drop In” podcast.

John Langlois · 🇫🇷 France
French street-trials rider of the 2010s–2020s scene with a BMX background, folding tailwhips and barspins into his trials riding as a member of the Drop and Roll Tour.

Aurélien Fontenoy · 🇫🇷 France
French trials rider — a three-time junior world champion and senior worlds medallist — who became a 2010s–2020s viral sensation with huge urban staircase stunts, riding the 768 steps of La Défense’s Trinity tower and the Eiffel Tower. A fixture of French trials shows and YouTube challenges.

Thomas “TRA” Remvik Aasen · 🇳🇴 Norway
Norwegian rider from Bergen who became world-famous within trials as a self-filming video maker, releasing years of solo edits through the 2000s and 2010s. Known for the biggest moves on a trials bike — a 157 cm sidehop and 3.2 m-plus static gaps.

Joacim Lundgren · 🇸🇪 Sweden
A 2010s UCI World Cup competitor who switched to street trials and joined the Inspired team in 2021, filming celebrated video parts — “Welcome to Inspired”, “PATIENCE” — on the streets of Sweden with filmmaker Linus Pihlsgård.

Euan Beaden · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
One of the leading UK street-trials riders of the 2010s and 2020s, from Portsmouth: an Inspired rider since his teens and a performer with the Urban Displays stunt team.

Neil Tunnicliffe · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
An early-2000s UK video-era rider who pushed extreme street trials and helped make the ZOO! Pitbull frame famous. Remembered as one of the defining names of the TGS era, alongside Craig Lee Scott and Damon Watson.

Damon Watson · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
One of the touchstones of the 2000s TGS style — his numbered video series drew tens of thousands of views in the Pinkbike era, and when a knee injury forced him out in 2013 the forums mourned the end of the “monster TGS videos”. He returned to riding the following year.

Craig Lee Scott · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
Known as “CLS”, one of the canonical names of Britain’s 2000s TGS street-trials era, remembered for aggressive urban riding and standout video parts.

Danny Holroyd · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
A Trialskings-era British street and competition rider whose video parts helped shape the UK scene of the mid-2000s.

Matt Staples · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
A UK video-era legend whose 2004 “BT video” was passed around the forums for years — riders even named the sidehop-to-“staples” move after him. Rode for Zoo and later KOT, with a section in GET1.

James Porter · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
A British rider of the mid-2000s Glasseye Trials (GET) video era, part of the UK forum-and-DVD scene that carried trials through the decade.

Nick Goddard · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
The rider-filmmaker behind the GlassEyeTrials DVDs: he filmed and edited GET1 and GET2 in the late 2000s — the films that gave the UK video era its name — while riding in the scene he was documenting.

Jack Meek · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
Celebrated for one of the most original styles of the late-2000s GET films, from Henley-on-Thames: an MBUK photo shoot in 2009, the “Making of GET2” feature, and a 2012 turn on ITV’s “Let’s Get Gold” with Savage Skills.

John Shrewsbury · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales
Porthcawl’s 26-inch “street king”: a 24-inch section in GET1, then a 2011 Inspired Element video for TartyBikes shot across South Wales and the south coast, and still releasing parts into the mid-2010s.

Sam Wheeler · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales
His street section in GET1 sent mid-2000s forum users hunting for every clip he’d made; his Echo riding even turned up on Extreme Sports TV.

Rowan Johns · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
Bristol rider on Martyn Ashton’s Team Ashton / Diamondback squad, making videos from the scene’s earliest days around 2001 — when GET2 resurfaced on YouTube in 2020, the first wish in the comments was that he’d been in it.

Tim Stedman · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
Malvern rider of the mid-2000s UK scene — Pashley team videos in 2005, a cult following for his Pashley GHZ, and a new-rider section in GET2 at the era’s close.

Adam Bessell · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
A new face of GET2 who carried the UK video tradition into the Inspired era, with a 2012 Inspired Hex edit and a Dubai trip video alongside James Porter.

Andrei Burton · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
From a GET1 section to the big stage: one of the UK’s most successful trials athletes became its most visible 2010s show rider — Top Gear Live stunts, several Guinness World Records and arena tours.

Stan Shaw · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
Bolton’s quiet trendsetter: more than a decade of TartyBikes videos from 2004, a super-controlled style all his own, and bike setups the rest of the scene copied — honoured with a “end of an era” retrospective when he stepped back.

Danny Swindlehurst · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
Kendal rider of the mid-2000s forum scene: TartyBikes Zoo clips, Henbikes team leader for 2008, and a regular in the era’s group-ride videos.

Wayne “Waynio” Mahomet · 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
Yorkshire cult hero of the mid-2000s forums — the telephone-box gap clip, his own waynio.co.uk video site, and a natural section in GET1 at Buthiers.

David Cachon · 🇪🇸 Spain
Spanish rider, a former MTB-trials world champion who reinvented himself through the 2010s as an adventure and freeride content creator. Known for big-mountain lines and record drops documented on his own channel.

Tomomi Nishikubo · 🇯🇵 Japan
Japan’s best-known street-trials rider of the 2010s and 2020s, a back-to-back national champion who joined the Canyon CLLCTV team. Famous for his “Ninja Rider” (忍者ライダー) video series.

Keita Miyaoka · 🇯🇵 Japan
One of the first Japanese trials riders to earn a worldwide reputation through video: his smooth, technical riding circulated globally in the tape-and-download era before YouTube, while he competed internationally from the late 1990s into the 2000s.

Eirik Ulltang · 🇳🇴 Norway
Norway’s leading trials rider and the first Norwegian to reach a trials World Cup, who became known through the 2010s for jaw-dropping real-world stunts — riding up to the Preikestolen cliff and leaping the Svolværgeita pinnacle.

Felix Mücke · 🇩🇪 Germany
German rider whose mid-2000s video parts, traded across the trials forums, made him one of the best-known names of the German video scene while he also rode internationally in competition.

Dave Herr · 🇨🇦 Canada
“Dangerous Dave” — a Canadian rider remembered from the 2000s trials-video scene who went on to wider fame in the 2010s riding hair-raising elevated “skinny” lines, a crossover star of North American riding videos.

Pavel Borisevich · 🇷🇺 Russia
The most-watched rider of the Russian scene, whose self-filmed “save”, “SL” and “Error” video series ran from 2010 to 2015 and earned him a cult following on the international forums — and he’s still riding today.

David Sellero · 🇪🇸 Spain
Spanish street rider whose late-2000s and early-2010s edits — Zoo-era parts, then a 2012 Inspired Hex video — drew comparisons on the UK forums to Neil Tunnicliffe and CLS.

Mike Steidley · 🇺🇸 USA
America’s dominant champion of the 2000s — 13 national titles — who built an equally big stunt-show and video career: two decades of touring demos, and a “Mike Steidley Day” declared by his hometown of New Haven in 2014.