New York, December 29th – Danny MacAskill and his famous youtube video made it far, not only in the biking industry. After being interviewed on BBC, Sunday Times, and other mainstream media, Danny got his probably biggest newspaper publication: In today’s New York Times Danny got portrayed in the Global Sports section.
The Scottish street trial rider Danny MacAskill got famous almost over night thru the famous youtube video, filmed and edited by Dave Soverby.
Danny MacAskill, Tailwhip, San Diego, CA by Mike Clark:
Since then Danny had various requests from bike and mainstream media, commercial requests, TV shows, such as “Britains got talent” or “Ellen DeGenerous”, and probably the biggest print publication on Danny appeared today, Tuesday December 29th. Carol Wallace interviewed Danny MacAskill for New York Times with more in-depth questions than in previous media reports about Danny.
Read the article and get an idea about Danny’s life before and after the impact of capturing pure passion for bike riding with one single video which got spread throughout the worldwideweb. Great to see that Danny elevates the mountain bike sport in such a positive way!
If you can’t buy the print version of today’s New York Times, then just go online and check:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/sports/global/29cyclist.html?_r=1&ref=sports
In the next days you should be able to read a similar article in the International Herald Tribune!
If you still haven’t seen his amazing video, you can watch it on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o
source: Rasolution.com
Wow – the video is certainly inspiring.
Perhaps we’ll see increasing interest in Trials riding into the future, if the popularity of this video is anything to go by. Kona is certainly banking on this with their Bike Parks.
It’s great to see Danny MacAskill’s skill and talent being recognized in such a public forum.