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Danny MacAskill In VW Advert

October 28, 2009

Since his emergence into mainstream media’s consciousness, trials rider and all round nice guy, Danny MacAskill has been popping up all over the place – in a music video for Doves and in a couple of TV commercials, like this one for ‘the new, sporty’ VW…

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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37 thoughts on “Danny MacAskill In VW Advert”

  6. I think the fly is something to do with one side of him being not scared to do some crazy **** on a bike and another side he is scared of a fly….hmmm….

    …That’s all I can think of, but what its got to do with a car I don’t know…

  12. Hah, I think someone at VW loved the video and just thought why not, who cares if it’s car related it’ll be all over youtube and have millions of hits 🙂 Danny M is pure awesome!

  15. Funny – first time through I didn’t notice the car until he put his bike in it. Now I watch it again it’s in nearly every scene!
    Those alloys are awful though.

    (oh and it’s a fly)

  17. I’d be more likely to buy the car if he had a few mates with him and all of them managed to get their bikes and kit in. I can can get one bike in a normal Golf like that.

  18. Its defo a wasp (get glasses those that think its a fly! Doesn’t even sound like one!)

    I think the point of the ad is exactly what we’re doing now…………

  20. Lovely, lovely riding in an ace location- makes the car look like the geeky kid who’s hanging out with the cool kid though.

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