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Danny MacAskil - The Sequel is HERE!

Nov. 16, 2010, 12:18 p.m.
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This might be blasphemy, but I'm only quoting Monty Pithon: "Jesus Christ on a bike!"

He wears his bike like a pair of dancing slippers. I wonder if he popped out of his mother already on a bike and pedal kicked off the delivery table.

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Nov. 16, 2010, 12:24 p.m.
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Wow! That guy deserves all the good stuff coming to him these days. Great style and wicked lines!

Even the press release was impressive - it's written tomorrow!

Nov. 16, 2010, 4:04 p.m.
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Great vid but like what was said before I was a little more prepared for this one. Last video was the first time I saw that kind of riding so it was extremely entertaining. This video was awesome though.

Redbull plug seemed kinda out of place in the vid but sponsorship is what it is.

Nov. 16, 2010, 5:10 p.m.
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Best rider on the planet.

I'm really starting to think the same thing.

"May a commune of gay, Marxist Muslim illegal immigrants use your tax dollars to open a drive-thru abortion clinic in your church."

Nov. 16, 2010, 5:25 p.m.
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I think tomorrow I'm going to bunny hop to 180 up something 12 feet in the air, land on my front wheel, do a perfect circle backwards and then tailwhip off. Now that I've seen it and noted how easy it is to do.

Insane.

Nov. 16, 2010, 5:32 p.m.
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I've watched this about four times now. I love his creativity with the lines. the Camera work is far better then the first video. great landscapes as well.

I'm blown away by the control he has on his bike. pure extension of his body, pretty sure I cant walk that smooth.

Just a speculative fiction. No cause for alarm.

Nov. 16, 2010, 6:22 p.m.
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can you say "bike handling skills clinic???"… wow

Nov. 16, 2010, 6:28 p.m.
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insane, the guy has so much skill and is a super smooth rider all his tricks are dialed and consistent. Id have to agree hes one of the most impressive riders out there.

Nov. 16, 2010, 6:31 p.m.
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Absolutely Amazing. This is one serious bit of film-making to me, it was so beautifully shot and put together that I was just blown away. I have not seen Life Cycles yet, and I am sure that that will knock me over too, but right now, this is the best mtb vid that I have ever seen.

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Nov. 16, 2010, 6:47 p.m.
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Holy smokes, what can't that guy do on a bike? Perhaps he's passed Leech as the best.

Thread killer

Nov. 16, 2010, 9:17 p.m.
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I've watched this about four times now. I love his creativity with the lines. the Camera work is far better then the first video. great landscapes as well.

While I agree with you about the camera work I think this film suffers a little because Danny is so good. What I mean by that is that the first film had nice natural pauses and gaps between action. Because Danny can do so much I don't think there was time for those same moments without cutting out some amazing riding this time around. They probably did some math about the average length of a video that goes viral (a preoccupation for Danny's handlers, this vid was called Danny's latest 'viral' early on) and then tried to keep under that time. As a result I think it comes off a little rushed.

imho

Still great though.

Nov. 16, 2010, 10:31 p.m.
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Perhaps he's passed Leech as the best.

Perhaps? Really?

Nov. 16, 2010, 11:18 p.m.
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If you watch some of the Mojo Trail Diary vids then he's in there riding a normal bike… he's pretty handy on it too. Would love to have him on the North Shore riding. I imagine that some of the lines he'd see would be pretty amazing.

Jon-boy.

Nov. 17, 2010, 12:18 p.m.
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great vid! holy crap! what moves!
there's an old music biz adage that goes something like "you have your whole life to make your first record". we'll never see that first viral video in the same way, with innocent eyes again, so this film is naturally going to fail to impress the same way. however, it's clear that he's no flash in the pan, that he has immense skill and a bigger bag of tricks from which to draw, and that indeed the sponsorship that he has now affords us a better product. i can't wait for the next effort!

RIde. Eat. Repeat.

Nov. 17, 2010, 12:55 p.m.
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interesting terrain too

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