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Kriss Kyle’s BMX and mountain bike videos will take your breath away
Kriss Kyle has come a long way from his roots in Scotland. From winning local comps to rooftop ramps, he’s travelled the world and ridden with the best.
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This selection of Kriss Kyle's best videos showcases the amazing talent, creativity and style the Scottish rider displays, wherever he happens to be riding. Whether it's watching him on the streets of Denmark to the mad made-up world of Kaleidoscope, you won’t be able to drag your eyes off the screen.
Kriss Kyle has been pushing the boundaries of BMX for a decade
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Don't Look Down
36 min
Don't Look Down
Riding a BMX park 2,000ft in the air? Daring BMXer Kriss Kyle just did that, so you don't have to.
There are world firsts and then there are world firsts. Kyle is known for thinking outside the box when it comes to his projects, but Don't Look Down saw him take things to new heights (literally) as he rode in a bowl suspended beneath a hot air balloon 2,000ft in the air. While the final riding edit lasts a mere four minutes, the behind-the-scenes documentary shows the years of planning, engineering and practising that went into making his dream a reality.
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Kriss Kyle’s Kaleidoscope
Trippy visuals and unreal tricks, optical illusions and mind-bending skills; Kaleidoscope has all this and more. A creative and crazy approach to BMX, it showcases Kyle’s creativity and skill, and you’ll find yourself watching this video again and again.
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Out of Season
25 min
Kriss Kyle: Out of Season
Kriss Kyle transitions from BMXer to all-around bike athlete in classic British winter weather.
Kyle swaps his BMX for a mountain bike in Out of Season as he travels to Wales to attempt tricks rarely seen on a mountain bike and gets wild in an all-out trail riding edit. The skills he has perfected over years of BMXing are transferred seamlessly on to a custom-built North Shore trail where there are wooded features aplenty.
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Through The Grapevines
3 min
Kriss Kyle freerides through a vineyard – action clip
Join Kriss Kyle as he brings his dream BMX freestyle course to life in the iconic terraced vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland.
Kyle brings his dream freestyle course to life in the iconic terraced vineyards of Lavaux in Switzerland. Accompanying the Grapevine edit is a film – Behind The Scenes of "Through the Grapevines". The film goes behind the scenes of the edit to see the challenges and triumphs that Kyle had to go through when creating a BMX playground in such a stunning and inaccessible landscape.
35 min
Behind the Scenes of Through the Grapevines
Watch as Kriss Kyle creates his dream freestyle BMX course to life in the vineyards of Lavaux, Switzerland.
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Land of Everyday Wonder
Kriss Kyle getting dizzy in Denmark
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This is Denmark as you’ve never seen it, and probably won’t ever again. Kyle gives his own take on travel with a film that showcases the amazing riding opportunities that are there – if you’re as skilled as he is. So expect paragliding landings and model village venues, rooftop tricks and canal-side antics aplenty.
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Wallrides
5 min
Wallride Road Trip
Kriss Kyle travels from Scotland to Lyon, riding the best walls he can find.
From Edinburgh in Scotland to Lyon, France, this video is all about finding the best wallrides possible, then riding them full gas. Kyle is joined by Alex Donnachie for this road trip adventure, covering a week of new spots and creative skills across the UK and France.
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Dropping in on Dubai
5 min
Dropping in on Dubai
Watch Kriss Kyle jump from a helicopter onto the roof of Burj Al Arab in Dubai – on his BMX bike.
When an edit starts with the rider dropping out of a helicopter onto a ramp on top of a helipad cantilevered off the side of a 700ft (321m) hotel in sun-drenched Dubai, you know it’s going to be a good one. And this video from Kyle just keeps getting better from there.
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Riding Shotgun - Toronto
13 min
Toronto park sessions
In Toronto, Kriss Kyle meets up with Drew Bezanson, one of the world’s most progressive BMX park riders.
Check out the other blinding locations and skilled-up riding from Kyle's Riding Shotgun series:
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Raw 100
2 min
Kriss Kyle
No music, no slo-mo – enjoy the undiluted sight and sounds of BMXer Kriss Kyle as he gets some practise in.
What can you do in 100 seconds? Kyle can show you smooth style and incredible skills on his home turf of Unit 23, the indoor skate park that’s both his local and where he honed his craft.
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Badlands
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90 Percent Luck
7 min
90 percent luck
Pro BMX rider Kriss Kyle pushes himself to nail a pair of innovative lines at his local warehouse BMX park.
What goes into the seamless flow of tricks that Kyle is famous for? He says 90 percent luck, 10 percent skill. We say it’s the other way around plus a whole load of practice.
This video is part of the Raditudes series, and gives you a glimpse into the process Kyle goes through to get that seemingly effortless style he has. Spoiler: it’s not quite effortless, but it is very impressive. And if this isn’t enough Kriss Kyle radness for you, check out his second Raditudes video for more.
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StreetDome
3 min
Kriss Kyle christens StreetDome
Kriss Kyle christens Denmark's newest skatepark StreetDome.
When you’re a rider as good as Kyle, you get opportunities – such as the chance to have four days to yourself, before anyone else, at the brand new StreetDome skate park in Haderslev, Denmark. This edit is the spectacular result.
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Three Day Metro Pass - Milan
4 min
Three Day Metro Pass – Milan
Join Kriss Kyle, Felix Prangenberg and Jordan Godwin as they search out Milan’s best spots.
What do you get if you take some of the best BMX riders in the world, an awesome city, a public transit system and only three days to get the best shots they can? Three Day Metro Pass of course.
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