Video: Danny Macaskill’s Bike-Ninja Skills Used to Sell Cars
Yes, it’s a car ad, but you’re going to watch it anyway because a) it’s Friday and b) it features the awesome Danny Macaskill (or the Mac Danny as we like to call him) on his bike. We’ve posted a couple of Danny’s videos here before, but to be honest we just can’t get enough of watching him throw his bike around the city streets. Check the huge gap he leaps around thirty seconds in and imagine just sitting up on that concrete monster, let alone standing up there on a bike . It’s a fantastic ad, spoiled only by the

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