As a kid, growing up in a small town, I rode my bike everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE. It wasn’t a road bike, with different speeds, or your typical kids bike, it was a BMX. My weekends were all about building shoddy ramps in the street, and tracks in someone’s backyard. Everything seemed perfect, that is, until the summer of 1995.
It was that summer that the X Games first premiered on ESPN. Since then, I haven’t been able to look at a bike or skateboard the same way. I’m pretty sure I taped every single event that first year. And over the next few months, I’d rewind and watch them again and again. Watching the Freestyle BMX riders blew my mind. Riders like Dave Mirra and Matt Hoffman were executing tailwhips, 720’s, and backflips like they were going out of style. And after I saw Dave Mirra land a double backflip I said to myself, “there’s no way I’ll ever see something cooler than that done on a bike.” Well yesterday I ate those words after watching this video of Inspired Bicycles rider Danny MacAskill.
Danny is a spry 23-year-old who hails from Edinburgh, U.K and has been riding for the past 11 years.You can find out a little bit more about him at the Inspired Bicycles page. If those stunts do not blow your mind then I would like to use your head as a bomb shelter because it is impenetrable. Reason being, I think Danny is a perfect example of the potential of human achievement. I cannot wait to see what terrain Danny decides to conquer next.
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