ISLE OF SKYE, Scotland — A giant lives in the backyard of Peter MacAskill’s house on the Isle of Skye. It’s a nearly 8-foot-tall replica he commissioned of a 19th-century ancestor famous for his brawn, who once traveled the world performing feats of strength. The statue sits in a backyard museum Mr. MacAskill built and has run for nearly three decades.

Mr. MacAskill’s yard includes a tribute to another kind of a giant — this one of internet fame. His son Danny is just 5 feet 9 inches tall, but he is one of the world’s premier trick bike riders, and arguably Skye’s most famous son. The younger Mr. MacAskill travels the globe hurtling off mountains and buildings on his bike — what in a quainter time might have been referred to as, yes, feats of strength.

“You could make some comparisons between myself and the giant,” said Danny MacAskill, who not long ago carried his bike 3,000 feet up into Skye’s Black Cuillins to pedal across the jagged peaks. The feat was viewed over 53 million times on YouTube. “Though I can’t lift a fully grown horse over a four-foot fence.”