*Spoilsport alert*
Love the riding, but can't help having reservations over encouraging kids to play on railway tracks and silage bales (half ton bales rolling away have killed numerous times)
@ninfan - thought exactly the same thing re. the bales.
Didnt occur to me about the railway - but then used to play on a steam railway near a mates house when young, used to flatten coppers by puting them on the line 😳
used to flatten coppers by puting them on the line
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Great video, much prefer to watch him than Chris Akrigg on a bike, much more natural.
2nd best vid of his for me, I still think The Ridge is the best.
He's one of the few sports people I look at I think he doesn't get the exposure he deserves, or the financial reward.
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He's one of the few sports people I look at I think he doesn't get the exposure he deserves
The Ridge has 45 MILLION views on Youtube
Imaginate has 58 million views
Way Back Home has 38 million views
etc
Yeah but if you ask the average person on the street they would NEVER have heard of him, but they would Andy Murray etc.
Stu Thomson's directing just makes it look so lush doesn't it!?
The riding skills are amazing, but for me I love how all his videos just make you feel good and all warm and fuzzy inside and want to go ride a bike and have fun!
Love it.
Pure dead brilliant !
I'm off up the Pentlands to try that now
I'm off up the Pentlands to try that now
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I've had a rubbish couple of days and that has made me smile. 😀
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Can't believe how good that was . Wowsers. Love the spin on the pedal and the skid to 360 .
Yep quality stuff. I was wondering if Mr Roskopp had any influence on Danny's new tricks. That's a definite Natas Kaupas homage!
Bit wet, I'll leave it till tomorrow.
[quote=FunkyDunc ]Yeah but if you ask the average person on the street they would NEVER have heard of him, but they would Andy Murray etc.
I would disagree. They may not know his name, but I'd say awareness of his videos outside the biking community would be very high.
I reckon most people on the street would struggle to name a tennis player outside of Djokovic, Murray, Federer and Nadal
Giggled like a loon all the way through that.
Just different from the 'usual' and utterly brilliant! 🙂 🙂
Wonder if he pre-booked his bike on that train...
Great video want to ride now!
Fantastic video and, in my opinion, his best yet.
Love natural trail videos, probably why Chris Akrigg appeals so much.
Danny bettered Chris though. Some incredibly riding going on there.
I need to watch that again when I get home on the big screen.
Absolutely awesome.
That bench slide was perhaps the coolest thing I've ever seen.
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Just one of those videos where the scenery, rider, music, choreography (seems like the right word) and director etc coem together to make something spectacular.
Brilliant.
Genuine "lol" at the puddle. The hay bale and the flip/back thing made me say wow out loud ( "wol" I'm trademarking it)
Only time I've been on my back with the bike attached I needed 2 mates to get me back upright
Love the riding, but can't help having reservations over encouraging kids to play on railway tracks and silage bales (half ton bales rolling away have killed numerous times)
Couldn't agree more, kids'd be much better off staying indoors with their PS4s. In his defence he did wear a helmet, which has been proven in a number of studies to [s]make you invicible[/s] do something useful. Maybe.
Better than Akrigg?
Burn the witch!
Being interviewed on 5 Live right now
Absolutely brilliant, and raised the bar again.
Also love the lack of machismo and Scottishness/Britishness.
Love the bale roll .. it's the imagination in each trick as well as the skill that gets me. Really cheered me up that.
Just showed it to my non cycling customer and she gasped and laughed all the way through.... Bringing it the masses Danny. Chapeau!
What a quality video. I reckon that was his best yet
Really good to see the outtakes too - you imagine he can land a bike onto a train rail every time he attempts it; clearly not! Puts into context how hard some of the tricks are to pull off if he's missing them.
Also, kudos for being able to bale (see what I did then?) so effectively when it goes wrong. If could guarantee baling out like that perhaps I'd be less fearful of 30cm drop offs!
That true actually. He's very good at falling off well, I guess he has/had lots of practice
and operations 🙂I guess he has/had lots of practice
Awesome!
3 days to film that log slide. Can't knock his and the crews dedication to bring us such gold!
Oh I liked that a lot.
Of all of the tricks and stunts the peddle spin on the post was sublime..
Best vid of all of his, and great to see some humour.
Fantastic!
Best one yet, some great new Ideas too
Obvious lots of CGI going on don't be conned!
Enjoyed that! Danny's one of the guests on the bike night at the Kendal film festival next month.
That was great although it further cements the fact that I am shit on a bike
After wondering if DannyMac and Akrigg had actually done every trick that can be done on video on a bike i watched this latest vid with some, er, caution, expecting to be all "seen it before" init.
Well, gota say, i was wrong, very, very wrong, so much genuinely new stuff in that video and with a brilliant fun outlook to it all! Even makes Scotland look nice and warm 😉
Grrr. Stuck in a hotel with a ropey internet connection, unable to watch the video as it's all blocky. Probably doesn't help that I learned of the video via the BBC news on BBC1 Scotland so there'll be a fair few people having a wee gander
Bog snorkelling and Divine Comedy perfect.
I'd be interested to see a list of all filming locations; I recognise several incl. Pentlands, North Third and (I think) on the River Tay?
Mrs hh informs me that one of the locations was Lindores in Fife...
There's a credits list at the end that might help you pick out some of the locations.
Just watched it again... Mrs hh is right! Dammit.
It's a pity RedBull and others still find the need to credit him as a 'YouTube' sensation - as if he's in any way comparable to funny cat videos and the rest - he's simply a bicycle genius.
WTF with that picnic bench slide....I wouldn't even be able to slide my bike bottle along the table without it falling !
Train to Dunvegan from the Pentlands ? I don't think so 😉
Genius.
The jumps and front flips were in Cambusbarron Woods. That small sequence took a day of practice and a day to film. My son and I were chatting to Danny and Stu afterwards - lovely people who had all the time in the world for us.
