The new film from Danny Macaskill as always features some amazing bike skills, but this time is set in the Cuillins.
Truly stunning in every respect. There will also be a BBC programme about this on October 10th.
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Danny MacAskill - Riding The Ridge
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Posted 9 years ago #
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This was spam trapped, hence later question of 'where is it'!
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Isn't it amazing? And vertigo-inducing. The bit where he flips over the fence near the end is pretty amazing as well!
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Yes... it's a near perfect blend of action, landscape and sound. Some aerial stunts defy belief - eg: the fence part and the single track ridge.
With a Martyn Bennett soundtrack it's inspiring stuff.
Can't imagine a better location for Mr Macaskill!
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I'm pretty sure I passed him on Porty Prom earlier this Summer. There was a nutter on a bike hopping around the huge boulders at the north end of the Prom. I figured it was probably Danny...
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Oh my actual word. He is bicycling in places where I have been distinctly tense just walking. Astonishing.
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Where is this film viewable?
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"Where is this film viewable?"
here
confession: i had to stop it half-way through.
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Terrifying. The headcam footage of climbing the ridge with his bike on his shoulder was bad enough, but the single track along the ridge... *gibber*.
Made me think: Danny Macaskill, and a number of other prominent guys, have clearly got the requisite skillz (sic) to do this, but there seems to be thousands of folk out there
doing crazy stuffbeing a hero with Go Pros strapped to themselves. What are the stats on deaths/injury through "look at me" misadventure?Posted 9 years ago # -
That was awesome, biking, cinematography and sound. Was seriously jawdropping on those narrow ridges, and I loved the fence bit as well.
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Glad he's returned to amazing scenery and riding instead of the distasteful playboy nonsense...
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It seems to suggest that he climbed the In Pinn with a bike on his shoulder. It may just have been edited to look that way, but he certainly seems to have done a bit of it. Pretty crazy either way.
Sitting on his bike on top of the bolster stone is also pretty nuts. When I went up the In Pinn I was determined to go up the Bolster Stone 'cause I don't think you can claim the tick without doing it, but an undignified sprawl was all I could manage.
Was that Collie's ledge he was cycling along too?
Fence trick very cool, particularly with barbed wire.
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I was waiting for him to drop of the top red bull rampage style.
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It seems to suggest that he climbed the In Pinn with a bike on his shoulder.
It's astonishing but I don't really see how else it could have got up there!
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There is a making of documentary on BBC One next Friday (19:30) which will be very interesting.
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"It's astonishing but I don't really see how else it could have got up there!"
Helicopter(?)
Well that's what 'extreme' skiers do.
Presume DM wasn't worrying about avalanches.
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The whole thing is amazing - I agree Min - I can't really see how that climb was edited in… excellent to be accompanied to by Martyn Bennett as Laidback says (although he did compose two pieces called Cuillin part1 and part 2 (he was originally from Newfoundland I believe (SRD))
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"which will be very interesting"
Wonder if it will mention that one 'spur' to his development was the policeman on Skye stopping him practicing tricks on park benches?
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The aerial shots were taken using a drone (says so in credits) so there doesn't seem to have been a helicopter involved. Plus I am not sure standing up there trying to catch hold of a bike on a rope whilst dealing with helicopter downdraft would be much safer than just carrying it up. ;-) Must try to remember to watch the documentary.
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While some youngsters use sport to avoid a life of crime, Danny MacAskill went the other route: “My parents took my bike off me for the whole summer when I was 13 – they were fed up with the local policeman coming to our door once a week.”
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http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/sport/danny-macaskill
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They may still have used a helicopter to get onto the ridge. Not sure how much flying time a drone has and would it even be practical/possible to fly it up the the ridge?
They must have been on the ridge for ages. If nothing else getting the In Pinn to yourself on a good weather day is pretty miraculous in itself.
There is no way he rowed in, that would just be stupid. Made the chat about the Cuillin being inaccesible sound better even though there's a road down the other side.
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@cb pretty sure it is Collie's Ledge, though the edited order of the journey from South to North has him doing it after the In Pinn.
Pretty damn cool nonetheless.
FWIW perhaps my favourite walking/scrambling area, been over most bits of the ridge quite a few times. Bliss. Except for the time I got a falling rock on my head, leading to a few stitches :-(
And at the risk of starting a parallel h*lm*t debate, no, I wasn't wearing one at the time...
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And at the risk of starting a parallel h*lm*t debate, no, I wasn't wearing one at the time...
Ouch, sounds sore. At least Danny was wearing one whilst rowing the boat!
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At least Danny was wearing one whilst rowing the boat!
Absolutely nothing to do with it being plastered with the logo of a certain "energy" drink sponsor...Posted 9 years ago # -
It actually wasn't, just stunned for a bit. Walked off with a couple of mates and taken to Portree for a few stitches. Can just about still make out the scar on my forehead. Must have a thick skull...
You pretty much have to get to the In Pinn very early on a good day if you want to avoid the queue, as a mate and I did a few years ago. Great to sit on the top for a while until the crowds arrived. Pretty sure we got up onto the Stone.
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The boy done well playing with the Cuillins.
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While not wanting to contribute to any debates about headwear, the Cullin Ridge is one of the places that I and my mountaineering club friends do tend to wear helmets (climbing ones, not bike ones) precisely because there's a bigger than usual risk of something falling on one's head. There's also a bigger than usual risk of falling a long way - a helmet isn't going to protect you if you do that.
The Ridge is a properly scary but spectacular place. I have 3 ridge Munros left to do and I'm not sure if I'll ever go back once I've done them!
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Impressively scary stuff, although does the peak now need to be renamed as The Bicycle Accessible Pinnacle?
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@jdanielp
Very good. Perhaps a 'cyclists dismount' sign and chicane are called for?
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@fimm - it was in my younger days, we were a bit more reckless, I suppose. However it never put me off, and was back on ridge a couple of days later; got back on the bike, as it were. Have worn a helmet many other times, depending on conditions, route etc.
I do hope you complete them, but still take the chance to go back and enjoy them at some point!
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