🏍️ Dirt Trail Rider
A real physics motorcycle hill climb: ride the hills, clear the gaps, and race your own ghost.
How to play
- Hold Throttle (or the ⬆️/W key) to ride, Brake (⬇️/S) to slow or reverse.
- Lean Back / Lean Forward (⬅️➡️ or A/D) balance the bike, on the ground and in the air.
- Reach the flag to finish the course. Falling restarts it from the beginning.
- Once you finish a course, a translucent ghost rider races your own best time on every later run.
- New bike colors unlock as you finish more courses.
A real physics hill climb, racing your own ghost
Dirt Trail Rider runs on a genuine physics engine, so the bike has real weight and momentum, not a canned wheelie animation. Leaning back and forward shifts the bike's balance for real, both climbing a steep hill and mid-air over a gap jump, so timing your lean actually determines whether a jump lands clean or you nose over. Six courses escalate from Sunrise Hills' gentle rolling terrain to Final Descent's mix of steep climbs and long gap jumps, each with its own best-time tracking saved locally on your device.
The differentiator here is the ghost rider: the first time you finish a course, that exact run (its path and timing, sampled throughout the ride) is saved as your record. Every later attempt at that course plays back a translucent ghost bike following that saved run in real time, so you can see at a glance whether you're ahead of or behind your own best without having to check a stopwatch. Beat your own ghost and a new one takes its place.
Finishing courses also unlocks new bike colors, from Enduro Red to a Chrome Champion finish for beating every course, purely cosmetic and tied to real progress. Works with keyboard, mouse, or touch controls, no download and no account needed. Looking for more stunts? Try Ramp Rampage, or browse the rest of the car and driving games.
Frequently asked questions
What is Dirt Trail Rider?
Dirt Trail Rider is a free motorcycle hill climb game with real physics. Ride across rolling hills and clear gap jumps to reach the finish flag on 6 courses.
What is the ghost rider?
Once you finish a course, a translucent ghost bike follows your exact best run on every later attempt at that course, so you can see in real time whether you are ahead of or behind your own record.
How does the physics work?
Dirt Trail Rider uses a real physics engine (Matter.js), not scripted animations. Leaning back and forward genuinely shifts the bike's balance, both on the ground and in the air over a jump.
Is Dirt Trail Rider free and do I need an account?
Completely free, no download and no account. Your unlocked courses, best times, ghost runs, and bike colors save locally in your own browser.