Ebike tech (and technique) hacks with Danny Macaskill

Hello and welcome to the Roller Door, a Santa Cruz Bicycles Podcast where we give you a behind the scenes look and what's going on here at the company, while giving ourselves the chance to sit down and chat with the company we keep. In this episode Garen's true identity (trials kook and absolute fanboy) breaks cover for a wide ranging chat with the one and only Danny MacAskill. I took this episode as an opportunity to grill Danny about a handful of moves that have baffled me over the years. We also talk trials in general, stuff Danny looks to achieve in his video projects, and how he keeps his head in the game when it sometimes takes a few hundred attempts to get one clip. We talk about Danny's latest video, Postcard from San Francisco, where injury, permitting, and mechanicals made for a particularly long and difficult production before Danny starts in on the ebikes... this guy is a fanatical ebiker, in fact, after the podcast, we burned another hour talking about tech climbing, 3- battery days, and ebike tech. Sorry for any poor audio you might hear-- we recorded this in late 2022 with some old equipment. Finally, if you wanna dork out in the particular moves I asked Danny about, there are links and time stamps in the shownotes below. Remember, get in touch with questions or anything in particular you'd like to know about what we do here at Santa Cruz. Email us at podcast@santacruzbicycles.com.

Inspired - 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o Wall 180 to bike racks: 3:14

Industrial Revolutions - 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShbC5yVqOdI Steps: 1:51

Cascadia - 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0rbxB9Lqg Wall madness: 3:25

Postcard from San Francisco - 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIBldkWO9a4 upstairs 180 hop: 2:13

oh, and that ~15 seconds of music in the intro? That's 'Morning High' by La Luz

Thanks for listening!