These are the riders who carried bike trials beyond the competition tape — the people whose films, street edits and YouTube channels turned a niche discipline into one of cycling's most-watched spectacles. Some never chased a world title; their stage was the city, the mountainside and the video part. For the sport's decorated competitors, see the all-time champions and rider archive; several riders below also teach the techniques in our how-to manual.
Global icons
The riders whose videos broke out of the trials world entirely, racking up hundreds of millions of views and bringing new audiences to the sport.
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.
Wikipedia · Official site
Fabio Wibmer · Austria
Austrian trials-and-MTB phenomenon 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.
Wikipedia · YouTube
Martyn Ashton · Wales
Welsh former trials champion who reached a huge new audience with the viral “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”.
Our profile · Wikipedia
Chris Akrigg · England
A multiple British trials champion turned all-terrain video stylist, famous for impossibly fluid web edits — “A Hill in Spain”, “In the Rough” — across trials, mountain and even fixed-gear bikes. Rides for Whyte Bikes.
Our profile · YouTube · Instagram
Hans “No Way” Rey · Germany / USA
A German-born pioneer of mountain-bike trials and freeride, 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.
Our profile · Wikipedia · Official site
Vittorio Brumotti · Italy
Italian road-bike trials rider and television presenter 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.
Our profile · Wikipedia · Instagram
Ryan Leech · Canada
Canadian trials and mountain-bike rider known 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.
Wikipedia · Official site
Jeff Lenosky · USA
American pro nicknamed the “Trail Boss”, celebrated for YouTube edits cleaning seemingly unrideable trials-to-trail lines. A former bunny-hop height record holder with a long competition pedigree.
Our profile · YouTube
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 films moved from pure trials into e-MTB and spectacular high-alpine lines.
Athlete profile · Instagram
Street trials & YouTube
The modern street-trials generation — urban riding, show teams such as Drop and Roll, and the creators who document and teach the craft online.
Ali Clarkson · Scotland
Glasgow street-trials rider and Drop and Roll team member who became one of trials’ most-followed YouTubers, posting weekly tutorials and bike builds. His how-to videos feature throughout our technique manual.
Our profile · YouTube · Instagram
Aaron Lutze — “Super Rider” · USA
American creator behind the “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.
YouTube · Our profile
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.
Our profile · Instagram
John Langlois · France
French street-trials rider with a BMX background, folding tailwhips and barspins into his trials riding as a member of the Drop and Roll Tour.
Instagram · Drop and Roll
Aurélien Fontenoy · France
French trials rider — a three-time junior world champion and senior worlds medallist — who became a 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.
Our profile · Wikipedia · YouTube
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. Known for the biggest moves on a trials bike — a 157 cm sidehop and 3.2 m-plus static gaps.
Echo team profile · Instagram
The UK video era: GET, TGS & Trialskings
Before YouTube, Britain's trials scene ran on DVDs and forums — GlassEyeTrials (GET), the TGS style, and the Trialskings community — and these riders defined it.
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.
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Craig Lee Scott · England
Known as “CLS”, one of the canonical names of Britain’s TGS street-trials era, remembered for aggressive urban riding and standout video parts.
Our profile · Instagram
Danny Holroyd · England
A Trialskings-era British street and competition rider whose video parts helped shape the UK scene of the mid-2000s.
Our profile
James Porter · England
A British rider of the Glasseye Trials (GET) video era, part of the UK forum-and-DVD scene that carried trials through the 2000s.
Our profile
Nick Goddard · England
A British trials rider and filmmaker active in the UK’s DVD-and-forum video era.
Our profile
International street scene
Street and natural-trials riders from across Europe and Japan whose edits built devoted followings well beyond their home countries.
David Cachon · Spain
Spanish rider, a former MTB-trials world champion who reinvented himself as an adventure and freeride content creator. Known for big-mountain lines and record drops documented on his own channel.
Our profile · Official site · YouTube
Tomomi Nishikubo · Japan
Japan’s best-known street-trials rider, 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.
Our profile · YouTube
Eirik Ulltang · Norway
Norway’s leading trials rider and the first Norwegian to reach a trials World Cup, who became known for jaw-dropping real-world stunts — riding up to the Preikestolen cliff and leaping the Svolværgeita pinnacle.
Our profile · Wikipedia
A curated, growing list — fame in trials has always lived in videos, forums and word of mouth as much as in results sheets. Spot a rider who belongs here? The sport's competition record lives in our rider archive and results archive.
See also
Published October 2026.
