“This bike has a story,” said the kid in the jeans with a big cuff rolled up over his old school engineer boots as he pushed the black motorcycle across the dock into the back of the pickup.
“What’s the story?” I asked.
“Dunno,” the kid said. “It’s the bike in that really cool poster back in the showroom. It’s famous.”
“The really cool poster of the guy in the leather jacket and the hat with the motorcycle?” I went into the showroom to take a look at the poster. I know it well. The black and white photograph of Marlon Brando leaning on the tank of a motorcycle with a trophy tied upright to the top of the headlight … More
No one goes looking for a fight with a shark. Some of the most ancient predators on earth, sharks are cunning, powerful, and lethal when they intend to be, arousing in humans what at worst manifests as crippling fear – galeophobia – and at best, a healthy aversion.
Unprovoked shark attack incident numbers are steadily climbing each decade, and we’re left to wonder what’s going on, and what we surfers can do about it.
It’s no secret that our sustained human activity has dramatically … More
The Naish groms play hookie for a day of kiteboarding, on Maui, with Kai Lenny, and brothers, Jesse Richman and Shawn Richman.
Surfers have been moonlighting as stuntmen for more than 100 years. The great Duke Kahanamoku started the Hollywood relationship off in the 1920s and was followed by surf inventor Tom Blake in the ’30s and Miki Dora in the ’50s and ’60s. In the last 30 years big-wave riders have made a natural fit for the job, as Hollywood has looked to find athletes who are comfortable and relaxed in dangerous situations. Here are the ones who’ve left the biggest impression … More