Danny MacAskill of Inspired Bicycles... got skill

ali c

http://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/Ali-C-Ride-Inspired,27485/iceman2058,94?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=spotlight

Yeah going up the in pin with his bike on his back. Skills.

Danny MacAskill's Wee Day Out

That's wonderful.

cracking video that!

Love the pedal on the bollard spin and the backwards roll.

Wonder if he appreciates the soundtrack is actually about the NHS.

Edit - although on further investigation that might not be true, despite the video.

He's very good at the game of biek. That jump landing into a forward roll thing is awesome.

https://youtu.be/fAEBNEscL0c

Took exactly 200 tries to get the slack line shot!

that and the 360 on the paralell bars were the two standout moments

^ spoiler alert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD2eRIgBgI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BAPdXGbf6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3kiLEaTv_I

Don't think I've tried to do a wheelie since I left my MTBs in Oz. I've been too busy folding forward getting tucked, maybe I should give it another go. I never really made it more than 10-20m in one go - I'd always loop out after a few pedals. Who's here has got a sick wheelie?

Do one on your shiv!

Haha I think I'll start with the cheaper bikes first. Look at what I did to the Stanton when I landed on it :S

Never tried tilting the saddle foward like in his tutorial.

learning to wheelie was on my bucket list of things to do before i turn 40.

i'm 45 this year, still can't wheelie for shit.

Haha sounds familiar. I haven't even put the MTB back together after AMR so that's how likely I am to practice it any time soon. :)

I'd always loop out after a few pedals

This is why you use your rear brake.

I grew up doing MTB trials, so spent half my childhood on the rear wheel. I'm having to relearn them on my current MTB because the front wheel is about a mile in front of me, and the chainstays put the back wheel somewhere in the next county

I know the "how to" of wheelies. It doesn't mean I could apply it.

I'm no good at holding the balance point. I was into it though, I once had the most realistic dream of holding a manual all the way down my street. It felt so real and I was so fucking annoyed when I woke up and it turned out to be a dream.

I wonder if it's because I'm so heavy but all my weight is in my legs and I don't have enough mass to make corrections

looks at massive head in mirror

Nope it's not that.

lockdown regrets list

1. not spending all my 'one exercise a day' time practising wheelies
   

I’m in awe of the local kids round my way who can just chill on the back wheel indefinitely on a beat to shit bso mtb.
A few have those dedicated fat tyre wheelie whips which do look pretty fun for fucking around on.