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Martyn Ashton (born 2 December 1974)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Martyn Ashton )〕 is a former British and World Champion〔()〕 mountain bike trials rider, stunt rider and team manager. He had been riding professional trials since 1993〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Martyn Ashton )〕 and is often described as a mountain biking legend.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Team Ashton Diamondback Is Launched )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Martyn Ashton : Mountain bike legend )〕 He has been credited with turning trials from a niche form of riding into the sport it is today.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Martyn Ashton )〕 Ashton was paralysed in an accident in 2013, during a bike trials demo at the British Moto GP.〔()〕 ==Biography== "Legend" Ashton started out as a motorcycle trials rider, and only later took up mountain bike trials.〔 He has been the front man for The Bike Tour since 2002, and is a four-time British Biketrial Champion and former World Expert Biketrial Champion. Ashton is the High Jump World Record Holder. In 2008, Ashton entered the Mountain Biking UK 'Hall of Fame'.〔 Ashton not only rides trials, he has also designed the exhibition stages〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= ANIMAL MOUNTAIN BIKE CHAMPIONS, MARTYN ASHTON AND GRANT ‘CHOPPER’ FIELDER, AT THE SPORTSBOAT AND RIB SHOW )〕 and has been designing products for his own Ashton Bikes range since 2002.〔 He has appeared in TV shows, magazine covers and MTB videos, and also has his own column ''Hop Idol'' in the MBUK magazine.〔 Ashton lives in Port Talbot, Wales. Ashton broke his back in 2003 when he compressed a vertebra and fractured it during a fall, having misjudged a landing, but he soon returned to riding.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UK Trials ace Ashton recovering from broken back )〕 Ashton established Team Ashton Diamondback in order to provide support for young riders. Although they are top level riders nationally and capable of achieving results internationally, Ashton does not believe competition results are the be all and end all, and the team concentrate as much on gaining positive attention in the media as competition. A range of Team Ashton bikes was released in October 2008 as part of the 2009 Diamondback range.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About Team Ashton )〕 Ashton again broke his back on 1 September 2013 during a demo at Moto GP. A 3-metre fall from a high bar left him with severe damage to his spinal cord and dislocated T9 and T10 vertebrae.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Legend Martyn Ashton is set for a new trial )〕 On July 2, 2015, Ashton rode a modified bike down a mountain, which was featured in the Youtube video "Martyn Ashton - Back On Track" by Global Mountain Bike Network. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martyn Ashton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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