Parkour on Two Wheels: Danny MacAskill Rides a Bike

1. Rick
   April 21st, 2009 at 4:45 pm

   Actually its called urban trials riding. Although he does have influence from bmx riding.

2. dalucero
   April 21st, 2009 at 4:46 pm

   wasn't this on the queue this morning?

3. Mouserz
   April 21st, 2009 at 4:48 pm

   What is it with skate/bike videos and fish-eye lenses?

4. Johannes
   April 21st, 2009 at 5:00 pm

   'Parkour on Two Wheels' is misleading; this guys spends more time on one or even zero wheels than he does on two. Amazing!

5. ted
   April 21st, 2009 at 5:30 pm

   Whenever I hear Parkour, I always think of Tourette's.

6. Ralph
   April 21st, 2009 at 5:42 pm

   Pretty amazing stuff. I'm a decent mountain biker, but I can't imagine having that kind of balance.

7. Aaron
   April 21st, 2009 at 6:01 pm

   Yeah, I have to second the trials comment. It's called urban trials riding and has been around exponentially longer than parkour and is a hell of a lot harder.

8. Hootie McBoob
   April 21st, 2009 at 6:14 pm

   He's gonna kill those trees if he (and/or others) continues to use them for his acrobatics.

9. :D
   April 21st, 2009 at 6:50 pm

   Yep, dalucero, it still is on the queue the time I'm posting this. Wondered the same thing.

10. case
    April 21st, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    Don't you mean what Kottke (via waxy) can only describe as parkour on a bicycle? How about some attribution?

11. DaveL
    April 21st, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    I have a car. Ha Ha.

12. vonskippy
    April 21st, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    I would like to be his bandaid vendor.

13. zav
    April 21st, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Sick biking. Sick camera work.
    10 levels of awesome.

14. Michael Wendell
    April 21st, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    Actually, Parkour is a relatively new sport when compared to bicycle trials riding. So to call this Parkour on wheels is like describing surfing as "snowboarding, but on the beach".

15. SenorMysterioso
    April 21st, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    Ive watched this about six times since yesterday morning. Brings back a lot of childhood memories of just how liberating it was to simply ride. My first backflip was, admittedly, an accident.

16. Ali S.
    April 21st, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    Ah, this is so awesome! Makes me want to save up some cash and purchase myself a bike to travel about Toronto. Feel that cool air and the freedom of the streets.

17. dandy
    April 21st, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    Two words:

    Fucking WOW!!!!!!!!!!!

18. Sonny
    April 21st, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    Wowwww you are the best biker ive seen to this day. It's amazing the things you can do on two wheels. Let alone just one of them. Keep on doing what youre doing man.

19. Ned
    April 21st, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    I can't even do that stuff in my dreams. Literally awesome.

20. j
    April 22nd, 2009 at 5:59 am

    Parkour came long after trials.
    this guy just coming up with original stuff

21. snark
    April 22nd, 2009 at 11:07 am

    I can do that. I just don't want to.

22. SteveK
    April 22nd, 2009 at 12:59 pm

    Hans Rey was doing this on his Trials bikes over a decade ago...

23. JaredH
    April 22nd, 2009 at 1:42 pm

    Yeah Trials riding is the bomb. You out to check out Ryan Leech as well. He is not mortal.

24. SenorMysterioso
    April 22nd, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    I have to find a tree off which I can do a flare

25. Johnny Cat
    April 22nd, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    What kind of tires are those? To take that kind of pounding without blowing has to be something non-traditional. If that was a usual bike, it'd have a seat, and he'd be popping more than tires.

26. DOJ
    April 22nd, 2009 at 9:51 pm

    cool

27. Matt
    April 23rd, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    What came first? Trials? Or Parkour?

    I actually wrote a post about this very question today on my blog (linked above)! It gets more "old school" than you might think and it gives props to Neatorama for being not just a fun site, but a fun comunity as well.

28. Joona!!
    July 14th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    Fucking AWESOME!! Best ewa!! =D

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