Roadies don’t exactly have a reputation for being adventurous. Oh sure, they can suffer with the best of them. But the finicky shaved-leg arrogance, the matching kits…you know how it is. After all, you guys voted roadies the smuggest athletes by a landslide. Well, here’s a little video that, while it might not stem the [...]
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The kids at Signal Snowboards have an awesome self-challenge: Once a month, they brainstorm some wild and crazy board project, then set about building and documenting it via a web show called Every Third Thursday. In honor of the recently passed Steve Jobs, they set about building a board with iPad enclosed within it. Not [...]
Did Garrett McNamara break the record for riding that world’s tallest wave? That’s the claim coming out of Portugal’s Praia do Norte, where the Hawaiian charger has been exploring the big-wave possibilities for the last couple of years. The spot is located near Nazaré Canyon, a gap in the continental plate up to three miles [...]
For a few months now, I’ve had Seb Montaz-Rosset’s beautiful Skyliners highlining video teed up to share with you guys and never got around to pulling the trigger. Maybe it’s for the best, cause he’s gone and produced a documentary that’s even wilder, more scenic, and more beautiful. And more fun, too. “I Believe I [...]
The world of big-wave hunting used to be limited to the search for the world’s tallest peaks. Not anymore: These days surfers living on the lunatic fringe are scouring the globe for more threatening beasts that, while not as tall as Maui’s Jaws or California’s Cortes Bank, pack more punch per square foot in a [...]
It’s one thing to throw a backflip off a kicker, it’s another thing entirely to drop one in the middle of a tasty natural line. Riding in Virgin, Utah, just outside Zion National Park, where he won last year’s Red Bull Rampage, Cam Zink goes upside down and stomps it, with just a little off-track [...]
102.4 miles per hour. That’s how fast Markus Stöckl went down Nicaragua’s Cerro Negro volcano a few days ago, setting a new world record on a “serial” (i.e., non-custom) mountain bike. We’ll skip the why, which is something you’d have to ask the 36-year-old Austrian, who isn’t your typical pro, but owner and manager of [...]
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