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Video: Original Bike Tricks from Tim Knoll…(don't try this at home kids)

BMX stunt video gets 2 million views in two days

As regular users of this site will know we're partial to the odd BMX video now and again and this one from Milwaukee rider Tim Knoll is a bit special - it's had over two million views on Youtube since Tuesday when it was posted (and when we originally meant to stick it on here, honest).

 

Knoll's video doesn't feature the sorts of death defying jumps and tricks (or indeed budget) we've come to expect from trials rider supreme, Danny MacAskill. Instead it's a collection of finely honed tricks and stunts that owe a lot to his origins as a flatland BMXer, although this isn't by any means pure flatland as there are obstacles involved in many of the tricks - including lorry trailers although the most impressive bit is him somersaulting off one bike and on to the pegs of another… although you might think differently.

road.cc's founder and first editor, nowadays to be found riding a spreadsheet. Tony's journey in cycling media started in 1997 as production editor and then deputy editor of Total Bike, acting editor of Total Mountain Bike and then seven years as editor of Cycling Plus. He launched his first cycling website - the Cycling Plus Forum at the turn of the century. In 2006 he left C+ to head up the launch team for Bike Radar which he edited until 2008, when he co-launched the multi-award winning road.cc - finally handing on the reins in 2021 to Jack Sexty. His favourite ride is his ‘commute’ - which he does most days inc weekends and he’s been cycle-commuting since 1994. His favourite bikes are titanium and have disc brakes, though he'd like to own a carbon bike one day.

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Joel | 11 years ago
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Fantastic, really original

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hampstead_bandit | 11 years ago
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as a BMX rider who started BMX in 1981..I can only say:

simply awesome  16

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Chuck | 11 years ago
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Flippin 'eck.

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atlaz | 11 years ago
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In approach, he reminds me of the Japanese skateboarder Gou Miyagi. Absolutely just doing his own thing

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Super Domestique | 11 years ago
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My first cycling passion was bmx. Even now I still want one (much to my kids shame)

Great video. Mad skills.

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nowasps | 11 years ago
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When I see the likes of McCaskill and Akrigg doing their tricks, I think of them as cyclists. When I see this guy, it puts me more in mind of a circus performer.

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notfastenough | 11 years ago
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Mental. But brilliant.

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