Danny McAskill, Cascadia, rooftops, gopro, headcam, video, red bull

Danny MacAskill’s Cascadia VIDEO

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Danny returns to the small (and smaller) screens once again in this romp across Gran Canaria’s rooftops – Bond-style. Gleaming sunshine, great colours and blue skies are a great antidote to British rainy blues.

Danny McAskill, Cascadia, rooftops, gopro, headcam, video, red bull
Rockin’ one minute, rooftops the next, Danny’s been busy

It’s shot on GoPro (who incidentally has just split from importers, Madison) with lots of scary ‘Danny-eye view’ scenes as we get to ride with him (and imagine what 20ft drops-to-flat must feel like…)


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Danny McAskill, Cascadia, rooftops, gopro, headcam, video, red bull

Danny was free to manoeuvre his way around the city from a unique perspective. “The architecture, colors and lifestyle with all the animals on Gran Canaria really spoke to me, and straight away I knew this would be perfect for what I wanted to create. I wanted people watching to really feel the vertigo which is why I wanted to be riding right on the edge, capturing GoPro POV footage.”

Danny McAskill, Cascadia, rooftops, gopro, headcam, video, red bull
Yeah, we can all do that too, right?

SPOILER ALERT!
Assuming you’ve now watched the video, you can read on:
“I really wanted to finish the clip with something memorable, so a 70-foot (20 metre) front flip from one of the rooftops into the sea seemed about right. After a few speed checks, I just went for it and the cameras caught it perfectly so thankfully I didn’t have to do it again. It was actually quite good fun!”

Danny McAskill, Cascadia, rooftops, gopro, headcam, video, red bull
Not jealous. And think of your bearings anyway…

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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.)

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