A Piece of My Mind Danny Macaskill Street Trials Bike Rider and Youtube Sensation

Sunday Herald › September 10, 2009

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LIFE has changed a lot in the past six months since I first put the clip on YouTube. I have been asked to go all over the world but, because I have been so busy doing demos with The Clan [Cycling Display Team], I haven't been able to take everyone up on their offers. I was invited to do the Ellen DeGeneres show in America but turned it down. Lately, though, as things have started to get a bit quieter I have been able to do a bit more. So far I have been to France, Germany and Denmark. I'm off to Portugal in a couple of weeks and then hopefully Las Vegas in the US after that. I'm keen to do as much travelling as possible.

The reaction to the YouTube video was so surprising. Myself and my fl atmate Dave Sowerby made the film for fun with no expectation at all. We had kept it quiet from friends so no one had seen the footage beforehand. When we put it on the internet it all happened really quickly. Within days I was doing interviews on the news. It all blew up so fast.

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A Piece of My Mind Danny Macaskill Street Trials Bike Rider and Youtube Sensation

One of the strangest requests came from a circus in Korea who asked me to go out there and perform with them for three ...

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