Danny MacAskill stars in new Doves video

Danny’s riding ability and fame level has blown up since one of his YouTube riding video tipped over 7.5 million views online thrusting him into the global spot light. Appearances in national news papers and on the BBC news, coupled with a large demo at the Fort William World Cup sealed Danny as a cycling super star.

The icing on the cake which caps off a whirlwind year so far for the Scottish rider has to be his appearance in the latest music video for the band Doves. Their summer single ‘Winter Hill’ sees him using his vast range of riding skills to ride around an urban landscape and further drive him and mountain biking into the mainstream and eyes of music lovers the world over.

In the video he’s pursued by legions of fans (or a raging mob, it’s hard to tell…) and he uses his many skills to confront and evade his pursuers.

Here’s a shot of Danny’s current bike. In fetching brown, it features Race Face Diabolus Riser Bars, Diabolus lock-on grips and Atlas FR cranks in agent orange, a front Hope disc and rear Magura HS33 brake.

Even non-trials riders have to admit that that is a cool looking bike...

Always the gent... Danny with a fan

Not seen Danny’s original video? Here’s the link to our story on it. We were one of the first on the block to break it to the world.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/2009/04/the-best-five-minute-mountain-bike-film-ever/

For news on Danny and the rest of The Clan team, visit http://www.mb7.com/TheClan/index.htm or Danny’s own site http://www.dannymacaskill.co.uk/

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (11)

jim the saintjim the saint July 7, 2009 at 6:05 pm

Bloody hell, those bike thieves in Manchester don’t give up easily.

myheadsashedmyheadsashed July 7, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Nice leg gash!

Manchester TrevManchester Trev July 7, 2009 at 7:11 pm

mmm! green hope stuff.

AlexSimonAlexSimon July 8, 2009 at 10:47 am

I can’t really say I see the reasoning from The Doves PoV, but great exposure for Danny! It’s like the perfect promo for him.

_foxie__foxie_ July 8, 2009 at 1:59 pm

clever marketing if you ask me… how many “danny macaskill” searches do you think youtube get compared to “doves”?

D0NKD0NK July 8, 2009 at 3:00 pm

“clever marketing sounds right but the vid should have had a clip of me (or Danny if I won’t get the youtube ratings up) riding the san marino/belmont downhill. Even greater oportunity missed 😉

danceswithcatsdanceswithcats July 17, 2009 at 10:07 am

Beautiful bike, but a wicker basket on the front would complete it.

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