Danny Macaskill on the Thames tonight

iPete
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edited November 2014 in Commuting chat
Noticed a giant floating bike ramp on Embankment last night, with a loop do loop, anyone else see it, big blue thing?

Anyway, bit of digging and apparently Danny Macaskill is riding it at 6pm tonight, maybe worth a watch?

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  • surrey_commuter
    surrey_commuter Posts: 18,867
    It will take more than a mid-Thames loop the loop to impress me - I have seen a middle aged bloke on a Boris Bike filtering up the inside of a moving tipper truck on Lower Thames St with a Sainsbury's bag on one handlebar whilst holding an umbrella over his head
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    I was wondering what that was. I reckon I can be there at 6pm too.
  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    Good tip-off! Where exactly is this, best place to watch?
  • tgotb
    tgotb Posts: 4,714
    Ian.B wrote:
    Good tip-off! Where exactly is this, best place to watch?
    Between Embankment and Parliament Square. In theory you'd get a really good view from Embankment itself, but in practice I fear it'll be a complete zoo...
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  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    TGOTB wrote:
    Ian.B wrote:
    Good tip-off! Where exactly is this, best place to watch?
    Between Embankment and Parliament Square. In theory you'd get a really good view from Embankment itself, but in practice I fear it'll be a complete zoo...
    OK thanks!
  • redvee
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    Seen a video of it online tonight but can't find it now.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,666
    Was all over very quickly. Saw a few people on bikes but no one I recognised.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    All a little bit 'Meh' really. Some Lumia/MS stunt. I have to use a Lumia for work, it's awful.
  • graeme_s-2
    graeme_s-2 Posts: 3,382
    If Danny MacAskill says it's really technical and difficult, then I believe him, but it looked fairly unspectacular, which is a bit of a shame
  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    Nice to see the man himself in action, though as you say it was over a bit quickly. A shame too that that corporate hospitality boat parked itself right in front at the last minute.
  • pblakeney
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    Graeme_S wrote:
    If Danny MacAskill says it's really technical and difficult, then I believe him, but it looked fairly unspectacular, which is a bit of a shame
    It is technical as regards getting your centre of gravity and balance right with the competing G-forces but I agree it is a shame that it doesn't appear more spectacular.
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  • pastryboy
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    Maybe they should have picked some random commuters watching to try it first thereby making it more impressive when he pulled it off.

    I have seen him do exactly the same thing in one of his youtube videos so not sure what was meant to be special about this other than the size of the loop maybe being slightly bigger.
  • lostboysaint
    lostboysaint Posts: 4,250
    Not heard or read about Danny's take on doing the loop but I know from listening to Bob Burnquist and Tony Hawk talk about doing it on a skateboard it's apparently very, very difficult because of the various times you need to compress/extend to keep your line and drive.
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    As il Principe says, its a stunt to promote Microsoft and that's all, so maybe that's all they paid for!
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    I'm not disputing how tough/technical it is. Love what Macaskill does. It just wasn't very exciting, a bit like the Nokia Lumia I guess...
  • pastryboy
    pastryboy Posts: 1,385
    This is where he did it before, more impressive because of the start:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3xVOs7_No#t=314
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Il Principe wrote:
    It just wasn't very exciting, a bit like the Nokia Lumia I guess...

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  • hazbun
    hazbun Posts: 1
    Here's the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC1KwpRPm7s

    Pretty cool to watch close up, but over pretty quick.

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