Danny MacAskill : new bike stunt video “Way Back Home”released : aforadio.com
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Danny MacAskill Way Back Home: new bike stunt video released
The cyclist who shot to fame after publishing footage of his stunts online has released a new video
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Created by MacAskill in collaboration with Red Bull, Way Back Home shows the cyclist riding across Scotland to his hometown of Dunvegan in the Isle of Skye.
Travelling with his friend and filmmaker Dave Sowerby, MacAskill performs stunts at Edinburgh Castle, leaps over rocky terrain and jumps onto and over bridges in the Scottish Highlands.
The journey culminates with a return to the place where MackAskill first learned how to ride, his hometown of Dunvegan, where he skips past local hotels, jumps off railings and even front flips off a building.
Talking about his experience of riding from Edinburgh to Skye, MacAskill said: “My favourite spot in the riding clip is probably the bakery wall ride in my local village.
“I found it by walking out of the bakery with a big pasty. And then I saw the grass bank and the wall and thought I could maybe jump up there one day.
“One of the hardest tricks in the film was probably the front flip off Edinburgh Castle as it was blowing a force 10 hooly. It was also raining really heavily, if it wasn’t for that it would have been easy.”
Danny MacAskill’s first video, Inspired Bicycles, received 300,000 views online overnight and has since been played more than 21 million times.
To read more about Danny MacAskill’s new project, Way Back Home, go to: www.redbull.co.uk/waybackhome.
About Danny
Danny grew up on the Isle of Skye where he says he had a reckless amount of freedom growing up – in other words he had the most amazing childhood! He got into trials biking around the age of 11 and has been progressing ever since. At the age of 17 he moved to Aviemore to work in a bike shop called Bothy Bikes and around four years ago Danny hooked up with Inspired Bike, which allowed him to ride as much as possible. Then when he was 21 he moved to Edinburgh to start work in MacDonald cycles – he says he was lured to Edinburgh by the fun street riding. In 2009 he left MacDonald and started up a bike display team with a friend called The Clan, which enabled him to ride a bike for a living. By March 2009 there were enough bookings to keep The Clan busy for the year, but then Danny finished a small video he had been filming for the previous six months with flatmate Dave Sowerby. Once the video hit the internet the world went crazy for Danny MacAskill and since then he has been in demand all over the world. Now being sponsored by Red Bull, Danny can go out and do all the things he’s dreamed of doing on his bike and 2010 looks like it’s going to be another great year for Danny MacAskill with some really exciting projects on the horizon.
