Showing posts with label Danny MacAskill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Danny MacAskill. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Saturday, May 01, 2021

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Danny MacAskill rides again! Redbull has a cool new film of Danny doing incredible bike tricks in a demolished city ready made for all the wall riding, building climbing, etc that Danny performs flawlessly



skip the first 2 minutes 10 seconds



http://www.redbull.com/us/en

Villa Epecuén was a tourist village that was located in the Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Now abandoned, its ruins are found on the eastern shore of the Laguna Epecuén, about 4 miles north of the city of Carhué. Developed in the early 1920s, Epecuén was accessible from Buenos Airesby train. Tourism was well developed in as vacationers from Buenos Aires would seek the therapeutic salty waters of Lago Epecuén. At its height, the town had the capacity to accommodate 5,000 visitors.

On 10 November 1985, a storm surge caused by a rare weather pattern broke a nearby dam first, then the dike protecting the town. Rapidly made uninhabitable, the town saw the waters rise progressively, reaching up to 33 ft at its maximum. The village was never rebuilt.

At the time of the catastrophe, there were up to 280 businesses in Epecuén, including lodges, guesthouses, hotels, and businesses that 25,000 tourists visited between November and March, from the 1950s to the 1970s. The town reached a population of 1,500 inhabitants at its peak. The town now has a sole resident, Pablo Novak, who returned to his home 25 years after the flood waters receded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Epecu%C3%A9n

Wednesday, February 05, 2014

The best bike tricks I've seen in a long time, with Danny MacAskill


above, he is rolling backward, down the hill... until he decides to get back to two wheels... somewhere below that next bend in the road. I've never seen anything like it. Astonishing





Found on http://twentytwowords.com/2013/12/11/climbing-mountains-trees-obstacle-courses-pallets-shocking-stunts-road-bike/

Friday, December 21, 2012

"Premium Rush" is a great bike chase movie, and Danny MacAskill shows his skills in it too!





the above is the better trailer if you want the story about the movie, in short, Bike Messenger vs corrupt NY cop, cop chases the best messenger in NYC to try to get the package. Bike messenger pulls off incredible evasive moves, gets chased a couple times, delivers. On time.

Great biking, good movie, terrific reviews all over, Ebert to Rotten Tomatos.

the below is the better trailer for a bit of action


http://www.premiumrush.com/site/#downtown

For the best write up about the movie (ignore all the filler about "The French Connection" and skip down to where the writer nails the biggest idiot to break into the set during filming, some a hole with a diplomats license plate who knows he can get away with anything less than murder, crashed into the film location with his car, and caused the well known and liked actor Joseph Gordon Levitt (JCL) to crash into the back of a taxi, through the back window, and get 31 stitches) check the verbose New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/movies/joseph-gordon-levitt-dodges-traffic-in-premium-rush.html?_r=0

If you are wondering why I mention Danny MacAskill, it's because he is a phenom in trick riding, I've posted videos of his stunts a year ago: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/12/danny-macaskill-rides-through-over-and.html