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Video: Slippery When Wet - Danny MacAskill takes on polished granite

Round one in Amsterdam goes to the sparkly stone - but trials ace nails it second time around

Scotland is home to the Granite City, Aberdeen. It’s also home to Danny MacAskill, who hails from Skye, a little over 200 miles away.

Admittedly, no Aberdonian – this one included – can teach him diddly squat about pulling tricks on a bike, but we do know that riding over a polished slab of the quartz, mica and feldspar mixture in the rain will never end happily.

And so it proves in this video, shot in Amsterdam, that the trials ace posted to his Facebook page this evening.

 

 

Happily, he’s straight back up, and nails it second time around before his Drop and Roll Tour muckers Ali C and Duncan Shaw try some stunts of their own.

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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Mombee | 9 years ago
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Back in the mists of time (well, about 25 years ago), I was a cycle courier in Melbourne and one slightly damp morning I 'dropped' my bike at some considerable speed in spectacular fashion on the marble flagstones outside one of the tall office buildings… I wouldn't condone cycling on the pavement, but the effect on the morning commuters walking to work was fairly impressive as my bike slid towards the reception doors… it happens to all of us  1

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birzzles | 9 years ago
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... Stunts on the LBG homomonument. Awesome.  24

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miffed | 9 years ago
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You are joking when you start with "Scotland is home to the Granite City, Aberdeen. It’s also home to Danny MacAskill, who hails from Skye, a little over 200 miles away."

Thats like saying someone from Bristol must be a hipster cause England also has Shoreditch the home of the hipsters 118 miles away.

Surely a comment on something along the lines of:
"Hailing from the Isle of Skye, you would presume Danny MacAskill would know how to deal with riding in the rain. That didnt stop him coming a cropper on a recent trip to Amsterdam where...."
Would be more appropriate. (I do realise my grammar and punctuation can equally be atrocious but I don't run a cycling news website).

That is the worst introduction to an article I've seen in a long time.

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ttekkv replied to miffed | 9 years ago
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miffed wrote:

Thats like saying someone from Bristol must be a hipster cause England also has Shoreditch the home of the hipsters 118 miles away.

A bit off topic, but having recently visited Bristol, it's easily more than full enough of hipsters by itself.

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OldRidgeback replied to miffed | 9 years ago
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miffed wrote:

You are joking when you start with "Scotland is home to the Granite City, Aberdeen. It’s also home to Danny MacAskill, who hails from Skye, a little over 200 miles away."

Thats like saying someone from Bristol must be a hipster cause England also has Shoreditch the home of the hipsters 118 miles away.

Surely a comment on something along the lines of:
"Hailing from the Isle of Skye, you would presume Danny MacAskill would know how to deal with riding in the rain. That didnt stop him coming a cropper on a recent trip to Amsterdam where...."
Would be more appropriate. (I do realise my grammar and punctuation can equally be atrocious but I don't run a cycling news website).

That is the worst introduction to an article I've seen in a long time.

Yep, it isn't the best intro. And I thought he lived in Edinburgh (when not touring) anyway.

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miffed replied to OldRidgeback | 9 years ago
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i think its actually the south side of glasgow, or was fairly recently at least

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OldRidgeback replied to miffed | 9 years ago
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miffed wrote:

i think its actually the south side of glasgow, or was fairly recently at least

I'll ask my nephew as he knows him.

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CygnusX1 | 9 years ago
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That's the Homomonument on Keizergracht, a memorial to LBG victims of the holocaust. Not sure it's the wisest choice of location for performing stunts.

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