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Martyn Ashton during the Animal Tour

The Demo Animal
Martyn Ashton has been in the Trials Riding spot lights for quite a while, riding professionally for well over 15 years. He has been four times British Champion and was World Champion in the 'expert' category in 1995. Martyn is now focusing on promoting trials riding through numerous demos on a custom set up (check out the vid from the Animal Braun Cruzer Bike Tour at Fort William). He rides a very streety bike he designed himself, the Ashton, at a time when stock bikes were not optimised for trials.

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The height contest, gets the crowd mental.


Martyn is also a regular columnist in leading UK mountain biking magazine MBUK, covering the trials news and gossips and sometime taking part in the how-to sections of the magazine, demonstrating technical moves.
Previously, he contributed to the wider acceptance of Trials with the release of the Tricks & Stunts video, one of the first instructional videos on trials riding with plenty of moves to get inspired, also featuring co-riders Martin Hawyes and other well known figure Hans Ray.

Definitely a sound guy! I remember seeing him for the first time at the Cycle Show in 1997, and this was when I realised exactly what type of riding skills I was after, putting a name to my favourite sport.




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A cool rig to do demos...

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Signing autographs after a sweet demo.

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