How good is your bike control This Is The Greatest Cycling Video Of All-Time - Digg (click the skip to content ) and all done on a road bike FFS!!
Those three riders are quite amazing - but this looked better before you knew that Martyn Ashton fell earlier this year and broke his back. And is now paralysed. He broke T9 and T10. Which was at Silverstone MotoGP - doing a demo display. Chriss Akrigg has just recovered from a horrendous accident about 18 months back where he fell about five metres off one of those crags he likes to ride, braking quite a lot, but thankfully not his back. Danny Macaskill is still in one piece. Skill levels of all three are amazing, but the risks are real...... All in the MTB community wish Martyn good luck and are glad he made it through. He appears remarkably positive considering. What a strong bloke......
Not bad, but have you seen these: Inspired Bicycles - Danny MacAskill April 2009 - YouTube Danny MacAskill - "Way Back Home" - YouTube Danny MacAskill's Imaginate - YouTube
Watched a documentary on Danny Macaskill the other evening, incredible bike control but he has crooked his body but keeps getting back on.
Indeed yes, but we ought to clarify that Martyn has at the moment suffered loss of feeling below point of injury rather than paralysis with an injury classed as 'severe' and there is every chance he will make a good recovery. I'm sure all the specialists will advise him to quit the sport as a result of this, but I think we all know what his answer will be! Martyn Ashton suffers significant spinal injury
Chris, Apologies if you have read that somewhere, I hadn't yet. I had only seen that he had permanently displaced T9/10 and was paralysed now and opinion was he would be in a chair going forwards. But it would be great to hear that he was making a fuller recovery and might improve. Strong bloke though mentally - what I have read online has been very encouraging. Wishing him all the best. With a little help from his mates etc...... the MTB community has always been pretty good. Most people are just in awe of someone with amazing skills. Those three are amazing riders. It's funny though isn't it that everyone assumes that the risks must be far higher on the motorbike/racing scene because of the speed, yet the MTB scene has provided most of my and my mates serious injuries - as you go from 20mph to 0 in under a second and you simply "snap". But it appears less risky to the layperson.......
I guess he is so passionate about his cycling (as I think are you Ian) that he cannot entertain the idea of stopping now and mentions in that short interview that he has a piece of filming that needs finishing. I'm sure we all hope that he gets to do that but the increased risk of true paralysis doesn't bear thinking about.
Gutted to hear about Martyn's accident, used to read his column in MBUK every month. Agree with ChamMTB I've had more injuries mountain biking than riding a motorbike and that's after seven years of club racing. Will I stop riding either? No you've only got one life and you've got to live it.
I concur, I enjoyed that also. Downhill backwards on front wheel - respec. I am sure they were aware of the dangers, but a speedy recovery nontheless.
these men are....errrmmmm, obscenely gifted, almost defying what we all think is proper and correct. Breathtaking. Jesus H. Christ! But hey! we takes risks and we accept the consequences if the dice doesn't fall in our favour, but I for one wish for a speedy and full recovery. Obviously loss of feeling is several leagues above loss of movement, but it is still debilitating in it's self. Here's hoping...
The Ridge - Wow! Spectacular scenery, beautiful photography and great skills of course. Loved it. +1 definitely more injuries on an MTB and why don't these riders wear more protection while doing tricks?
Can't even begin to list the amount of injuries courtesy of pushbikes. Ridden all my life and still love it. However doing my GCSEs with both arms in plaster was a pain. (GCSEs are like O levels for the old gits on here)
