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Absolutely incredible drone footage....
Absolutely incredible brakes...? Or maybe a couple of takes...
Oh boy! I’m still flinching and that just watching it!
Jesus! The sort of thing that if you didn't have a bike, you'd quite like a rope!
He just looks effortless doesn't he!
So many "cannot fall" places - amazing
Wow. No outtakes at the end of this video like many do. Because outtakes = death in this case...
Incredible riding and skills, and balls the size of watermelons.
My God.
Line choice at 3:40 a particular highlight for me.
meh, I've ridden Dumyat, just looks the same really.....
Amazing, puts the slabby stuff I've ridden into perspective after all of 10 seconds.
The sheer commitment involved in some of those sections.
Absolutely incredible brakes…?
Granite is pretty much the grippiest surface you could ever hope for, brakes aren't the issue, its having the balls to let them go in first place!
Gibber! What tyres for slab grip?? etc.
My daughter enquired whether I would do that. I think she overestimates my talent and bravery.
I found myself leaning away from the screen a few times!
Genuinely sweaty palms at the end. He must have huge bollixes.
Was up there in the summer - not on a bike though, the guy who runs the boat trips from Elgol (Seamus?) said Danny had been there shooting a new film & it would be one to look out for - if anyone's ever up in Skye take the boat trip from Elgol & see the area, it's stunning.
That's the best video he's done. It felt like the riding I actually aspire to do, but steepened by about 20 degrees!
The bit where it's helmet cam footage and he's riding reallllly slowly and then the line appears to end then HOP! and he's somewhere I wasn't even able to imagine him moving to. Really great.
I need to watch it again for the background scenery. Didn't really look the first time.
The bit where it’s helmet cam footage and he’s riding reallllly slowly and then the line appears to end then HOP! and he’s somewhere I wasn’t even able to imagine him moving to. Really great.
That's the bit I mentioned above. Looks like he's running out of road, you can't work out how he's going to get past it, can't stop, massive drop to the right, then away he goes. 🙂
My hands hurt after watching that.
Granite is pretty much the grippiest surface you could ever hope for,
Hmmm. Not necessarily true, and indeed irrelevant.
Have you climbed on the Etive Slabs? 40 degrees and properly difficult to climb.
Black Cuillin is generally gabbro. Infinitely rougher than polished granite
Crikey - Looks like it's here - NG 47515 20733 v tight contours i.e. pretty much a cliff.
I was wondering when it was filmed and suspected a bright autumn / early winters day as he was wearing a jacket. Someone mentioned summer on a earlier post though. I'd (hypothetically!) certainly want as much temperature in the tyre rubber as possible....so summer would make more sense.
Um I'm in a minority by the looks of it but I'm bit underwhelmed.....
Dh vid by trials rider, no impressive trials moves and similar stuff done before by DH riders, without the brakes on.
Don't get me wrong it's nuts and I wouldn't ride it - especially from 3.30 in....
Just I expected more/something else from Danny.... His other vids are filled with bangers and id watch many times, this is a once viewed unlikely to return for me - since going to Santa Cruz his vids have become more and more MTB than trials and have lost a bit of appeal for me.
I think the photos help put it in a bit of context-
Any MTB shot taken from directly above that's mostly taken up by the bottom of the valley not the trail ahead shows it's shitting steep.
and similar stuff done before by DH riders, without the brakes on.
Interested, links?
Rampage for a start
Like I said it's impressive, but as rather watch Danny jibbing about than riding mountains on a big bike.
Might actually have been Autumn he was there, I was there slightly later than I thought - surface on the rock is really grippy, no way I would think about riding a bike down it though - it's probably steeper than it looks on the video, past this bit it was a climb, not a walk up
Link to interview which is interesting too
https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/danny_macaskill_on_riding_the_dubh_slabs-13325
^^ now the photos in that story make.it look much more impressive...
Good technical bit of riding, but the beginning was giving me motion sickness.
What immediately got me was him climbing up the slabs as if his bike was a feather pillow on his back. I'd be pooping with the fear of loosing balance and toppling over backwards!
Black Cuillin is generally gabbro
Everyday's a school day. My geologist wife just explained the gabbro is similar to granite but much courser grained so would be very grippy indeed.
I had in my head some of the exposed rock sections at Fort Bill. In your head you think it will be slippy but its like riding on sandpaper.
None if it is anywhere near as steep, exposed or long as the stuff Danny is riding though.
It must have been tempting to dunk the disc brakes in the loch...hssssssss!
What a stunning place, what a stunning rider.
Pah!
What's he done on grit?
(climber's joke)
Hmmm...struck me as like RB Rampage, but slower and without the jumps, but with increased jeopardy. Amazing location and impressive action, but I prefer his trials stuff.
Just read the UKC article.
An Alex Honnold/Danny Mac collab on something would just be next level awesome. Danny seems keen, not sure Honnold would be interested though.
That gabbro is supper grippy rock, and if anything it just adds to the horror. A slide, let alone a fall would be horrible. Some insane exposure too, plus the challenges of staying on the scouted route and all this after the effort of getting there with your bike too. Really well planned, ie, non-linear drone filming too.
Onza Octopus tyres for the win though...
Really enjoyed that, so improbable.
It's a moderate grade rock climb, i.e. you would rope up for a lot of it unless you are experienced and confident. Would love to see a making of and know what percentage of it he did!
On the temperature thing, you get more friction when climbing (rubber and skin) in cooler weather than hot.
I've climbed the Dubh Slabs, I believe it's the longest graded rock climb in Britain. The rock is incredibly rough, even though there are no "holds" the angle is such that you can pretty well climb/walk anywhere but there is a "line" - you can see one of the small marker cairns at one point - that folk have taken over the years. We did it in running shoes. It's not an even gradient as evidenced in the video but even the steeper bits are only just past the "hands in pockets" gradient.
He started just above the crux of the climbing route - the part where the video starts and the drop off over the small overhang. Can't remember now if the climbing route takes that line near the edge at the 3:40 mark.
Given the roughness of the rock I'd want full body armour on that - it'd make road rash look like just a scratch.
That was amazing.
Incredible scenery
Incredible rider skills
Incredible drone skills - shows how far we have come. They were once a poor man's helicopter - they are now getting footage beyond impossible from a helicopter, or anything else come to that.
Given the roughness of the rock I’d want full body armour on that – it’d make road rash look like just a scratch.
My thoughts too. Gabbro is amazingly grippy but a fall is hellish.
No long shots of the super techy exposed section at 3:40 so he could've been on the end of a safety rope for that, but we know he had no such thing on Collie's Ledge in The Ridge (
so I'm only speculating as to the possible, not the probable.
Awesome video.
Line choice at 3:40 a particular highlight for me.
I didn't even have to check to know exactly which bit you meant. Turned my ballsack into half a walnut.
Line choice at 3:40 a particular highlight for me.
When you look back at the aerial shot just before it, you can see the carefully placed stack of rocks letting him roll onto that ledge on the left.
I wasn't suggesting it was a spur of the moment decision to go left 🙂 . All carefully 'curated' prior to sending, obviously. The way it was executed on the video was good, though.
Absolutely. On first watch I was like "err, where on earth is he going to go now????"
TBH, I was also expecting some chalk marks or other markers but didn't see anything (on first view at least).
It was the bit at 1:07 that first grabbed me.
I think there were occasional rocks placed to mark some parts of the line.
anyone’s ever up in Skye take the boat trip from Elgol & see the area, it’s stunning.
+1 Even though its been over 40yrs since I was last there ☹️