Danny's Wee Day Out

Looks like Cut Media watched Akrigg’s Trial Trails vid and turned it up to 11.

Some amazing stuff in there – the pedal spin, scrub-hip-flip and case to front flip were stand outs for me – just so creative and smooth (at least on the take that made the edit).

National Express somehow look a bit classier than last time I traveled with them, can’t quite put my finger on what the difference is

Really like the slides on the tree trunk and picnic table

Ace, not that often that something literally puts a smile on your face.

EDIT just realised this makes me sound like a right grumpy git! But I’m sticking with it 🙂

case to front flip

Bloody loved that. “Oooh, he’s coming up short… **** THAT WAS ACE”

Interesting to see from the credits that the treetrunk slide was as hard to pull off as it looks though – several of other bits of zero friction balancing in there too, must require razor-sharp balance even by Danny’s standards.

*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

😯

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.

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

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.

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.

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 make you invicible 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

I guess he has/had lots of practice

and operations 🙂

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!