Four of the biggest MTB YouTube stars

Martyn Ashton’s first road-bike trials edit in 2010 saw him take Lycra and drop-bars to dizzying new heights to promote our BikeRadar Live festival. He expanded on this winning concept for his next video, Road Bike Party, which went on to rack up nearly 14 million views, and remains just as wild and entertaining today. The followup was derailed by Martyn’s life-changing back injury, but was finished by his friends Danny MacAskill and Chris Akrigg, and now sits at 20m views.

Speaking of Danny Mac , the flying Scotsman is synonymous with viral trials videos. He came to prominence with his 2009 Inspired Bicycles edit, which gained an astonishing 39m views. Since then, he’s kept on racking up hits, with 112m views of Cascadia (a roof-riding nail-biter complete with frontflip into the sea) and 92m for the kids’ bedroom-inspired Imaginate. More recently, it’s Fabio Wibmer who’s one of the most successful online MTBers, with 215m views of Wibmer’s Law, a slickly-edited street trials adventure, and 142m for the snow-bound ridiculousness of Fabiolous Escape 2. The late Kelly McGarry’s GoPro footage of his 72ft Canyon Gap backflip at Red Bull Rampage 2013 (right) surpasses even that, though, topping 217m views.