Danny MacAskill

MacAskill is, to me, proof that an internet career can be built on pure craft rather than noise. A trials rider from Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, he turned an unglamorous discipline into something genuinely cinematic, and the half-million-plus YouTube following feels earned rather than chased. The Santa Cruz partnership and that San Francisco Chronicle line about him being one of the most exciting street riders alive both track with what I see on screen. What gets me is the playfulness; he treats walls, rooftops and rural stone as a personal playground, and that childlike joy reads as more daring than any stunt reel could.

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Name (English)

Danny MacAskill

Name (Japanese)

ダニー・マッカスキル

Reading

だにー・まっかすきる

Born

December 23, 1985 (age 40)

Origin

Dunvegan, United Kingdom

Height

176 cm

Occupation

sport cyclist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Ox

• Official sitehttps://dannymacaskill.co.uk
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/danny_macaskill/
• Xhttps://x.com/danny_macaskill
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20MacAskill
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452349

Tags

• sport cyclist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.