Wauw siger jeg bare, check denne MTB Stunts video lavet af Danny MacAskill. Hvis jeg skulle gøre det efter med min dødvægt og min egen almindelige 26" MTB cykel, ville jeg falde, knække stellet, brække alle dele i min mandekrop efter blot et par minutter. Set over 3 millioner mennesker over et par dages tid.
In a stunning new video, a 28-year-old trials cyclist Danny MacAskill tackles the never-before-ridden Cuillin Ridge in his native Scotland, from the pinnacle. The death-defying ride features sheer cliffs, rugged peaks – and unbelievable stunts.
MacAskill’s adventure was captured in thrilling cinematic fashion by Stu Thomson and his team at Cut Media, supported by Five Ten and ENVE Composites. The bike rider also used a first-person view camera offering dramatic views of heights and chasms inches away from his chosen trail.
The resulting seven-minute video called ‘The Ridge’ was posted on video sharing site YouTube on Thursday and instantly went viral, with the counter showing more than 3,300,000 views as of Saturday evening.
Fascinated viewers took to social media to discuss the effortless way the stunt cyclist jumps over huge rocky gaps and makes flips in places that few men would dare to climb. The rugged traverse on the Isle of Skye is a challenge for pro-level climbers, let alone cyclists.
“It should not be your first ambition in the Cuillin unless you are a highly competent mountaineer,” Sky Guides, a climbing company that specializes in the Ridge Traverse, warns on its website. “Like many aspects of mountaineering, the Traverse is fundamentally dangerous.”
The Inaccessible Pinnacle is the hardest of the Munros to scale, the company notes.
In some places, the terrain was too extreme for biking, so MacAskill would carry his Santa Cruz full suspension bike over his shoulders, hiking past the gnarliest parts of the traverse.
A documentary about the attempt will air on the UK’s BBC One next Friday.
“It was certainly one of the most demanding locations we’ve ever filmed, but a rewarding one at the same time,” Thompson told PinkBike. “Danny and I are very proud of being from Scotland so it was great to be able to show off the amazing landscape along with Danny’s incredible riding.”