Pro skateboarders Kenny Anderson, Mike Anderson, Don Nguyen, Julian Davidson, Nick Garcia and Evan Smith help two kids get their hearing back in Costa Rica.
Mike Anderson and David Broach started Loud Headphones two years ago, and from day one the company donated a percentage of every sale made to the cochlear implant foundation Let Them Hear. A cochlear implant is a small device that is surgically implanted and gives sound back to the deaf and severely hard of hearing. This past March, LTH invited the crew to tag along on their Costa Rican trip to perform two cochlear implant surgeries.
After a few days of skating the rough streets, the boys headed out towards the ocean to meet up with the LTH Foundation and the kids that were going to go into surgery the following day.
Factory Porsche racer Patrick Long has a million-dollar historic 911 3.0 Carrera RSR from 1975 to pedal, less than half the horsepower of the fastest cars in the class, and uses every ounce of talent and racecraft he owns in a classic duel between overdogs and an underdog at Monterey.
Last weekend the Motorcycle Wheelie World Championship/Top Speed took over runway 26 of the Elvington Airfield in North Yorkshire, UK, for two days of high octane antics. Riders from several countries competed for the fastest wheelie over a distance of 1 kilometer, as well as a standing mile top speed contest.
Some consider it to be a blatant display of anti-social behavior, while for others it’s a demonstration of skill, or just plain fun. Whichever way one choses to see it, the wheelie is a stunt so popular with motorcyclists that it has its own world championship.
The tenth edition of the Wheelie World Championship drew thousands of spectators … More