While some are riding
antiques or
antique replicas and cause us to do a double-take by blending eras, others -among them
Danny MacAskill (
above) - make us look twice by seeming to defy the laws of physics. Watch
this video of the 26-year-old
stunt cyclist* taking on the streets (and walls, and fountains, and railings...) of San Francisco. And here he is in
2010 doing some unbelievable things in a mesmerizing
7:43min video (
scroll down for it) in his native Scotland. "
What MacAskill can do on a bicycle, his body shifting, pausing, and then exploding upward in a seamless tangle of man and bike, makes us reimagine our daily environments....MacAskill has taken the the landscapes of his everyday and turned mundane into a physical canvas," writes
National Geographic after naming him a 2012 Adventurer of the Year. For obvious reasons, his peers call him"
Danny MegaSkill," but he says, "
I’m still Danny, the kid who rides his bike all the time."
*Technically a
mountain bike trials cyclist.
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