Technical Edinburgh

I've been known to say that sitting down with my primary school-age son to watch a mountain bike video creates a kind of father-son bonding that most don't get to experience until the son is a teenager and they sit down to watch dad's pornography video collection. The middle-aged dad gets to reminisce about things they've done in the past but never as dramatically, while the boy gets unrealistic expectations about what is possible.

This statement is even more poignant when looking at this absolutely incredible video of Danny MacAskill doing trick riding through Edinburgh.

As a resident of the city while in my late teens, I have actually had both successful and unsuccessful sexual encounters in some of the buildings in the background of the video. The student's union and some halls of residence crop up, the Marchmont party-district and the George Square summer-drinking area all crop up, all places where I recall having my attempts at getting to know various girls better being rejected. The park with trees that appears a lot is The Meadows, where an acquaintance of mine once woke up after a night on the town wearing nothing but another man's underpants. That has never been explained.