6 minutes of exhilaration. My heart was in my mouth watching this clip

100% agree with Jane10 here- I find it really sad, and this is the case with so many sports, extreme biking, extreme skiing, extreme snowboardin, extreme parapenting, etc, etc- that there are so many young people (usually young men) who feel, that unless they are constantly on the edge of death- life is not worth living.

And these videos encourage this- with oft tragic results.
And they go around because we watch them and share them - and it becomes a business, with adverts, sponsors, etc.

He's a complete bone-shaking nutter but he's great!

Extreme sports scare me. My husband watches them but thankfully he's too old and achey these days to try any of them.

I don't know though. This sort of dangerous stunt always strikes me as just plain silly risk taking. People have appalling bike accidents. Who would have picked up the pieces of this young man if he'd crashed as so many would if they tried to copy this? Lots of impressionable youngsters will too.
I was never impressed by Evil Knieval and I'm not impressed by this cyclist.
Obviously I'm a spoil sport but I've the results of dangerous risk taking...

I watched it on BBC Breakfast this morning , made me feel a bit tingly, quite scary.