There’s nothing better than gathering your skate crew, packing up the van and hitting the open road. Skateboarding is synonymous with exploration, and traveling to new, unexplored environments is an essential part of the sport.
While there are a number of amazing skateparks scattered throughout the United States, for many skateboarders, hitting an urban metropolis still tops the list when it comes to a skateboarding trip. And with street skating not going anywhere anytime soon, there are plenty of landmark destinations for today’s street skater.
If you and your crew are hitting the road this summer, check out these epic cities … More
Stöckl has been setting records since 1999 but this is the fastest he’s ever gone using a bike you can buy on the shelves. He took his Mondraker Summum from 0-167.6 kmh in just eleven seconds as he screamed down a volcano in a specially designed suit.
With the gravel slope of 45 degrees deemed the perfect angle for his record, the 43-year-old’s pulse hit the 170 beats per minute mark, the wind whistling past his ears on a 1,200-metre descent in a place 11,000 from his home … More
Take a look behind the scenes of Markus Stockl’s preparation for setting a new mountain bike speed record.
Red Bull Twitch’n’Ride is a skijoring competition….lets start there. WTF is skijoring? A quick google search says: “Skijoring is a winter sport where a person on skis is pulled by a horse, a dog (or dogs) or a motor vehicle.” We don’t believe in animal cruelty here, and motorcycles are kind of our bread and butter so the question now is, “Who’s comin’ with me?!” Getting pulled behind a motorcycle on skis is hard enough, but add the difficulty level of this expert track and now you really have a party.
Competitors awoke this morning with a real treat in the form of proper Pipeline lefts unloading on the reef, all thanks to a fresh dose of Westerly direction that filled in over night. While yesterday was nothing short of a spectacular Backdoor display, with residual north and the healthy growing west swell, peaks were focusing hard on first reef for some thick teepees. While the wind came on strong in the early afternoon, it wasn’t before some serious work was done and dusted in Round 3.
The day called upon the top seeds for their event debut. That meant our first glance at John John Florence and Mr. Kelly Slater. While Florence skipped no beat from his freesurfs earlier this week, dropping a heat total of 16.53 (the second highest of the day), Slater found himself against the ropes, unable to top an on-fire Seth Moniz (the day’s top performer) and Bruce Irons.