Martyn Ashton (born 2 December 1974) [1] is a former British and World Champion mountain bike trials rider, stunt rider and team manager. [2] He had been riding professional trials since 1993, [3] and has been described as a mountain biking legend, [4] [5] and credited with turning trials riding into one of the fast-growing areas of the sport of mountain biking. [6] Ashton was paralysed in an accident in 2013, during a bike trials demo at the British Moto GP. [7]
Martyn Ashton is a retired trials and stunt cyclist who started-out as a child motorcycle trials rider but took-up mountain bike trials in the early 1990s. He is a four-time British Biketrial Champion and former World Expert Biketrial Champion, and the Guinness World Record Holder for the Mountain Bike High Jump. [8] In 2008 he entered the Mountain Biking UK 'Hall of Fame'. [3]
Besides riding trials, Ashton has also designed exhibition stages [9] and products for his own Ashton Bikes range. [4] He has had extensive media coverage, and published his own Hop Idol column in the MBUK mountain biking magazine. [4]
In Ashton's 2012 viral YouTube video “Road Bike Party”, [10] he rode a road bicycle in stunts typical of trials. [11] A sequel video entitled "Road Bike Party 2" was released the following year and proved even more successful. [12]
Ashton first broke his back in 2003, when he compressed a vertebra and fractured it during a fall after misjudging a landing. He soon recovered and returned to riding. [13] Ashton again broke his back on 1 September 2013 when he fell from a 3-metre high bar during a demo at Moto GP, causing serious injuries to his spinal cord which left him paralysed. [14]
Since his accident, Ashton has continued his pursuit of the outdoors with customized all-terrain wheelchairs. [15] He returned to mountain bike riding with a heavily customised bike, and in 2017 took part in the Crankworx Air DH in Whistler, British Columbia. [16]
Ashton currently lives in Port Talbot, Wales.
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Martyn Ashton (born 2 December 1974) [1] is a former British and World Champion mountain bike trials rider, stunt rider and team manager. [2] He had been riding professional trials since 1993, [3] and has been described as a mountain biking legend, [4] [5] and credited with turning trials riding into one of the fast-growing areas of the sport of mountain biking. [6] Ashton was paralysed in an accident in 2013, during a bike trials demo at the British Moto GP. [7]
Martyn Ashton is a retired trials and stunt cyclist who started-out as a child motorcycle trials rider but took-up mountain bike trials in the early 1990s. He is a four-time British Biketrial Champion and former World Expert Biketrial Champion, and the Guinness World Record Holder for the Mountain Bike High Jump. [8] In 2008 he entered the Mountain Biking UK 'Hall of Fame'. [3]
Besides riding trials, Ashton has also designed exhibition stages [9] and products for his own Ashton Bikes range. [4] He has had extensive media coverage, and published his own Hop Idol column in the MBUK mountain biking magazine. [4]
In Ashton's 2012 viral YouTube video “Road Bike Party”, [10] he rode a road bicycle in stunts typical of trials. [11] A sequel video entitled "Road Bike Party 2" was released the following year and proved even more successful. [12]
Ashton first broke his back in 2003, when he compressed a vertebra and fractured it during a fall after misjudging a landing. He soon recovered and returned to riding. [13] Ashton again broke his back on 1 September 2013 when he fell from a 3-metre high bar during a demo at Moto GP, causing serious injuries to his spinal cord which left him paralysed. [14]
Since his accident, Ashton has continued his pursuit of the outdoors with customized all-terrain wheelchairs. [15] He returned to mountain bike riding with a heavily customised bike, and in 2017 took part in the Crankworx Air DH in Whistler, British Columbia. [16]
Ashton currently lives in Port Talbot, Wales.
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