Bulgaria's lovers of the extreme variation of trial biking gathered in frond of Sofia's National Palace of Culture on Saturday to show off with their abilities and tricks. The competition was organized by Ivan Kristoff, dubbed Spiderman. He said he was determined to use his contacts around the globe to help the bikers in the new for Bulgaria trial discipline.
The extreme sport has been developing in Bulgarian only in the last five years in four Bulgarian clubs. The discipline has still not received any money from the Bulgarian Cycling Union, Dragomir Kizov, head of the Drag company that produces bicycles, said.
"I have many ways to help the boys that do the trial. This new sport needs advertising and sponsorship," Kristoff said. He even plans to apply the trial biking tricks in the work of a special rescue group.
Bike trials is a form of mountain biking derived from motorcycle trials. The rider negotiates man-made and natural obstacles without their feet touching the ground. It originated in Spain and is said to have been invented by Ot Pi's father (a world champion motorcycle trials rider). As it is hard for small children to control motorcycle trials bikes, he had wanted his son to learn and to practice motorcycle trials on an ordinary push bike instead of a motorbike.