Danny Macaskills on Adidas video

Always cool to see a new Danny MacAskill video.  His Danny Day are video just came out recently, but that was more of a fun video, getting crazy with the kid trailer on the mountain bike.  Here's Danny by the sea and in the highlands doing his trials/MTB thing again.  His moves are tech and gnarly at the same time, and he takes some pretty good spills along the way.  Welcome to Adidas (they're still around?).  I guess it's a good thing they picked him up, since I had to ask that question. 

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Kids and bikes go together: Give Danny Macaskill your GoPro... but not your kid

Perfect timing.  This brand new Danny Macaskill video just dropped overnight here in the U.S., and the Kink BMX 2020 line of bikes, featuring several for little kids, just came out as well.  Get the little ones all set for a "wee day out."  You can get all these bikes for the little bitty ones at the Block Bikes Online BMX Store.

 For the 2 to 4 year olds who can balance a little but aren't ready to pedal, here's the Kink Coast 12."  The "12 inches" refers to the size of the wheels.  Standard children's bikes and BMX bikes have 20" wheels, for comparison.

 For small bodies who can balance and pedal, the Kink Roaster 12" will get them going.

 For the kids a bit bigger, the 3 to 6 year olds or so, the slightly larger Kink Pump 14" will fill the bill.

 If your little one is 5 to 9, and raring to go ride, but the standard 20" inch BMX bike stills seems to much to handle, the Kink Carve 16" will set them up right.  Your kids probably know who BMX Caiden is, he's riding a custom made 16" bike (a personal version of Fit Bike Co.'s Misfit) these days.  Caiden's 8 or 9, and... well, I wish I could jump as well as Caiden does.  Kink BMX also has the slightly larger Kicker 18" (not pictured) available as well.

Whatever size your kid (or husband or wife) is, we'll get you set for Spring riding.

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Danny MacAskill's Wee Day Out

I first encountered trials riders when I got sent to shoot video of America's Sports Mom, Gale Webb, at an early mountain bike event at Mammoth Mountain, in California, in 1988.  Mountain biking was pretty new then, as a sport, and most of them didn't have much in the way of bike skills.  Former BMX racers ruled the downhill, and former cyclists ruled the cross country.  But they also had this crazy trials course set up by the lodge that weekend.  Hans Rey, a GT rider all of us BMXers knew of was there, but a guy named Ott Pea, from somewhere in Europe, was The Man.  He blew my mind with his riding.  Even so, bicycle trials riding was considered highly technical, but kind of lame.  They got no respect.  That bummed me out, because the stuff they were doing was super hard, AND super scary.

Personally, I was stoked to see Danny MacAskill come along several years ago, doing trials mixed with mountain biking, and some freestyle, and blowing it up in popularity.  I decided that after that first introductory post above, the best thing to do next would be to share some of my favorite videos that just make you want to go ride.  Though I'm a huge fan of Danny's videos, I'd never seen this one.  Like all of them, it's amazing, gnarly, funny, and, more than anything, makes a bike rider want to go ride.  Enjoy.     -Steve

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