The New York to Los Angeles Cannonball Record that Ed Bolian, Dave Black, and Dan Huang set in 2013 has just been broken by Arne Toman, Doug Tabbutt, and Berkeley Chadwick. Here’s the story of the 2015 Mercedes-Benz E63S AMG they used to do it.
These Guys Just Drove an E63 AMG Across America in a Record 27 Hours 25 Minutes
Three guys you’ve probably never heard of recently broke a speed record most people don’t care about—the New York to Los Angeles run referred to colloquially among aficionados as the Cannonball. Unlike most speed records and races, there’s no sanctioning body or official rules. That’s because setting a Cannonball record invariably involves breaking multiple traffic laws. In other words, it’s illegal. But that doesn’t stop people from doing it.
You may or may not be aware of its existence, but there’s a robust subculture within the automotive enthusiast community that obsesses over the New York-to-L.A. land speed record. Many of them even go so far as … More
Surfing isn’t always the end-all be-all in terms of happiness making
Sunny Garcia scares me. Always has. For one reason or another, when I was a young surfer in the early 1990s, I picked Sunny out of the constellation of hard-ass Hawaiians I could have feared to be the surfing boogeyman. Of course, I had nothing to fear from Sunny, or Johnny Boy Gomes, or Marvin Foster, or any of their contemporaries from where I lived, thousands of miles away on the Central Coast of California, with plenty of deranged beardos yelling at unfamiliar faces over wonky reefbreaks I should have been afraid of instead. But, nope, it was Sunny who haunted me. I’d flip through the pages of surf mags and see Sunny glaring out at me through an ad. Press play on a video and watch him cleave a poor North Shore wave in half with an honest-to-god man turn. Walk into a surf shop and see a poster of him standing tall and buff in a horrifying inside Sunset barrel and I’d be intimidated … More
Today marks the passing of the man who has influenced the riding life more than any other
At 11:00pm (EST) on Wednesday, November 20th, 2019, Jake Burton Carpenter—patriarch of the sport of snowboarding—passed away in Burlington, VT from complications related to a recurrence of cancer. At his final moments, Jake was surrounded by family, friends and those closest to him.
Jake was born in 1954 and raised on Long Island, NY. A lifelong surfer, he first descended a snowy covered hill atop a Snurfer at the age of 14. Upon graduation from NYU, Jake spent a short period of time working … More