This is some pretty crazy stuff. It wasn’t too long ago the first backflip with motocross was done, now Travis Pastrana have done the double backflip with his bike at the X-games. With this accomplishment Travis won the X-games best trick. Check out the video and the animated sequence below.
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Is it possible not to love the print of these Vans? I find that hard to believe. I really like the “Burnt henna/apricot” seen below here. I’ve seen other pictures from KICKS/HI, the color and print looks a bit different.
More pictures at Hypebeast
Karmaloop
Photo: Karmaloop
TechEBlog have a list with the top 5 strangest skateboards, I don’t understand why some people have to motorize “skateboards”, if you can call them that. I think the coolest on the list is the freeline skates, which I wrote about awhile ago.
Top 5 strangest skateboards at TechEBlog
Corduroy is a ski film from Rage Films who made films such as Booter Crunk and Stimulus. Check out the sneak peek of Jamie Pierre’s massive cliff drop. The film will be out september 15th, and by the look of the trailer it won’t be half bad.
Featuring
Tim Durtschi, Zach Christ, Mike Wilson, Sammy Carlson, Cody Townsend, Julian Carr, Ian Cosco, Patrik Leidstedt, Kyler Cooley, Jamie Pierre and many more.
Third issue of the Australian magazine POP Magazine is out now and it’s still free and available at their website if you like to read it, which you of course do. So if you have some time over you should check it out.
The 3rd issue of POP Magazine features interview’s with Russia/Australia snowboarder Alex Kutaysov and Victorian local Mike Dee, skateboarders Jamie Hawley and Simon Lyddiard and surfers Adam Melling and Martin Paradisis. Steve Friedman continues telling us about Hawaii in the ’70’s and Blotto shares some of his favorite photos from the past few seasons. And if that wasn’t rad enough, David Benedek speaks to POP about 91 Words fo Snow.
PingMag have a nice article about bike messengers that you should check out. My opinion is that bike messengers are crazy, the way they push through traffic seemingly fearless but it’s hard not be get impressed seeing them do what they do.
Article about bike messengers at PingMag
Below is a videoclip with Joe Ponto biking in NYC, that’s really some cool stuff.