Bike Trials

Cycling discipline of hopping and balancing across obstacle sections — feet down cost points.

👥1 per team🌤both

What is Bike Trials?

Bike trials descend from motorcycle trials and challenge riders to clear obstacle sections — logs, boulders, pipes, walls — without touching feet to the ground. Each dab or paddle costs points; the rider with the lowest score at day's end wins. Riders like Danny MacAskill and Andrei Burton have taken the sport into internet consciousness.

Quick facts

Category

Adventure & Extreme Sports

Type

Individual

Players

1 per team

Where played

both

Country of origin

🇪🇸 Spain

Estimated origin

Late 1970s Catalonia (evolved from motorcycle trials)

Olympic

No

Popularity

major

Sources & provenance

Last verified 2026-08-20.verified