Two Wheels and One Slackline, 367 Feet Up in the Air

Kenny Belaey and the art of balance

Two Wheels and One Slackline, 367 Feet Up in the Air

Two Wheels and One Slackline, 367 Feet Up in the Air

By The Editors

Stepping on a slackline will test your balance.

Biking across a slackline? That’s when your insurance company drops you.

But with a little gentle prodding from Red Bull, UCI World Champion Kenny Belaey did something that, like most Red Bull-endorsed derring-do, seems insane:

He biked across a two millimeter rope that was stretched 55 feet across a peak 367 feet up in the air at an elevation of nearly 9,000 feet.

The location was Paradiski, the winter-summer resort and ski haven in the French Alps.

Here’s the video:

As it is with reaching any goal, his practice went in baby steps.

He started at under a foot and slowly raised it to nine feet. It took UCI World Champion Belaey a year of practicing to build up to the stunt.

Good motivation for all you hobbyists heading into the weekend.

Baby steps.

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