Video: Danny MacAskill goes back to his roots in The Ridge

There's a documentary on the making of this video on BBC Scotland on Friday. Should be good! If you're not in Scotland you can prob view it on Sky/Freesat (has regional BBC variants) or iPlayer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04kntlk

The documentary is well worth a watch. Spoiler: the whole thing was filmed over a period of a couple of weeks.

The jump @ 4:52....the fuck.

I watched that video last night. I couldn't *walk* up some of those tracks, let along ride up/down them! Gods, I'd be lying flat on my front holding on with every limb, rather than sitting on my bike.

His life insurance policy payments must be astronomical!!

..get a grip guys, its a very well made 'film', and only a film, highlighting the beautiful Isle of Skye of which it is, good advert for cycling and Scotland.

Danny is brilliant in what he does, and cycling on some of those ridges, no matter how he got there, is awesome and a great piece of filming.

Why do we criticise always 'knock' people who have great skills and whom are promoting cycling in such a fantastic back-drop, it might just get some people out on their bikes and even visit Skye?

http://www.cutmedia.com/the-ridge-and-breathe/

The Skye tourism people must absolutely LOVE this

... though I'm not so sure the mountain rescue teams will feel the same way.

I went there for holidays as a child, went back a couple of times in the 90s. As well as Danny's immense skill and seeming lack of fear, this video reminded me what a stunning place it is.

If you have never been and decide to go I can assure you that there are plenty of other places there - and on the mainland - that won't disappoint.

Awesome!

Loved it, this is his best for a while. The pieces where he is cycling along the high tracks are true sweaty palm moments - I don't see any bail out options there.

[The in pinn climb was a bit pointless though. It isn't trivial to get up there purely because of the mind numbing drops on each side, but you could do it with a bike, or an ironing board, or a swivel chair to strike a pose on the top, and then climb/ab down. But then the pose was the point, it will be the image that gets used in media coverage]

Somersaulting a barbed wire fence? Hardly original....

That must've felt amazing...it's what truly living is.

There comes a time when I become 'scared' that Mr MacAskill might not make it home from one of his video shoots...I'm glad he did this time...but think he really should keep to the urban playground...

I got vertigo just watching that

So he got his bike back then or was he just given another?

Danny skills are very impressive, but there is something in this video that's even better: the scenery. WOW!

Oh, and that trick near the end when he flips over the fence is pretty cool too.

But surely that's been shot in a studio or with CGI. It can't be Skye; I mean, where's the mist and the rain?

The words "Jesus Fuckin' Christ" come to mind!!!!!!

That was a very rare flower he trashed.

some people are getting confused, this is a film about cycling, that has a tiny bit of climbing, and its being judged on that?

even riding along the edge, with the drop to left, would leave, i am sure, most here, rather nervous! and its stunning photography!

i think the serious climbers/ scramblers are missing the point here. the cuillin ridge is stunning and quite intimidating. films like this highlight these virtues. pretty amazing cycling too.
i miss skye. its a wonderful and special place. if the film inspires anyone to go, i hope the sun shines and if it does check out the faery pools

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Some of the shots on the video seem to be taken from a helicopter.

I think you will find they used drones.

Eek. Not where a bike should be!

what a beautiful video

Stunning.

If you've been on that ridge you'd be even more impressed by what he's just done! Some of those ledges/ridges are classed as difficult in walking books. Need ropes on two of them!