Danny MacAskill of Inspired Bicycles... got skill

Haha, funny you should mention that, a few years later he actually got whiplash that put him off the bike for a few months from some massive drop off!

Hells bells!

brilliant

this kind of stuff just amazes me, i really dont understand how people can be this good on bikes. the balance, control, and the confidence is somthing ill never be capable of.

It's to do with how the neocortex processes external information. On the simplest level you should just understand that the brain doesn't really know where you end and the external world begins. What this means is that the bicycle (from the brain's perspective) is literally an extension of the body. Once you understand that, you can push things further than most people would intuitively want to... it's not intuitive that your brain has incorporated the bicycle into your physical being, so it's not intuitive to push beyond a natural point.

yeah all in edinburgh, guy is incredible, and the patriot in me loves the fact hes scottish and wears the same mtb helmet as me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o

wth, why did I fail at adding a youtube video. i suck :(

its a great vid but its already all over the forum

its on bbc news!

i fail, im slower than bbc news

Amazing vid. All the stuff he is doing is downright impressive.

EDIT: some of the stuff on that vid is fucking massive considering he doing it on a trials bike.

yeah its cool and trendy but can he crank it through traffic full speed no brakes?

Sick stuff

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8012235.stm

Do a skid?

yeah its cool and trendy but can he crank it through traffic full speed no brakes?

I thought the cool and trendy thing was to ride brakeless at break neck speed speeds.

Trials has always amazed me, if I was given a choice of what sort of rider skills I could possess I would love to be a trials rider. Such control, I know I will never have the finesse to achieve that.

even my mum knows about this

It is amazing.....

a lot of the tricks / sequences are shown from two angles, but I think there was only one camera-man, plus th lighting conditions differ / there are different people walking by, so he can obviously repeat at will!

yeah its cool and trendy but can he crank it through traffic full speed no brakes?

he's probably not that stupid.

The thing that made my jaw really drop wasn't the riding along the top of the fence, it was cranking across a park towards a tree, managing to go about twelve feet up the trunk, and coming off backwards on to his rear wheel, perfectly. And then doing it again, but with a backflip. How on earth do you practice that? Bouldering mats?

I was also slower than BBC news for a bike video, the shame.

The thing that made my jaw really drop wasn't the riding along the top of the fence, it was cranking across a park towards a tree, managing to go about twelve feet up the trunk, and coming off backwards on to his rear wheel, perfectly. And then doing it again, but with a backflip. How on earth do you practice that? Bouldering mats?

I think the guy just has massive gonads.

How on earth do you practice that? Bouldering mats?

keep trying until you pull it. Suck up the injuries along the way. Spend every minute that you can't physically ride obsessing about it.

I thought the cool and trendy thing was to ride brakeless at break neck speed speeds.

I thought the cool and trendy thing was to ride brakeless rather slowly, check your reflection in shop windows and then wiggle your bum and hop around when you're about 100 metres from any junction/traffic light/potential obstacle.

Basically, when people are young, they can learn amazing things if talent, inclination, and opportunity occur together. There will always be acrobats.

Note about most good trials riders.. their age. Young.
They don't piss away their time drinking, driving, working, posting on forums. They have far less fear than oldies with kids and jobs and stuff. They heal quicker. They're more creative. They have more time to ride their bikes..

They don't post on Internet forums.