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Trials rider Danny MacAskill carves up Edinburgh

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) on Apr 29th 2009 at 10:00AM

The video below, via Outside Magazine's excellent blog, shows an amazing Scottish biketrials rider named Danny MacAskill absolutely running rampant all over Scotland's capital.

If you've never heard of trials riding before, the sport (at it's best) can feature a rider jumping fences, hopping up on roofs, doing flips off trees, and all sorts of other mind-boggling stunts-- all without a foot touching the ground. Trials riding, incidentally, may also be the world's most painful sport to learn.

Over 2.4 million people have already watched the video below, which really gets good at the 1:02 mark.

Filed under: Biking, Europe, Video

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Patricia Apr 29th 2009 11:15AM

Wow, this is like a bike version of free running or parkour.

Bill Apr 29th 2009 12:20PM

WOW -- what a superb sense of balance. He must have steel cables for thighs.

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