This is Tony Hawk’s personal 2008 Jeep SRT8 with a Hennessey SRT600 Turbo package. This car was driven on the 2009 Gumball 3000 and featured in an episode of MTV “Cribs”. . . . This model came stock with 420 hp and Tony jumped at the opportunity to work with John at HPE on the engine. They installed the SRT600 Turbo package.
And yes, it is fast. It will go 0-60 in 3.4 seconds and turns in 11.9 second quarter miles if you’re into that. It’s currently up on a 7 day auction so you have a week to think about it.
Watching the Vans Bowl-A-Rama from Bondi Beach makes you think that boosting 7-foot-high airs out of the Bondi Bowl is easy. Back tails through the square corner? No problem. In fact, watch the pros flow the bowl for an afternoon and it will all seems simple, that is until you try doing that stuff the next time you’re in a pool, or realize that Bucky Lasek ended up in second place with Rune Glifberg in third because Pedro Barros is so good that he won the event for the third year in a row.
Crazy. Right? Follow the jump for the official word from the Bowl-A-Rama including full pro and masters results. [click to continue…]
Thanks to the magic of a round planet, the Vans Bowl-A-Rama Bondi on Saturday, February 25, 2012 actually begins on Friday afternoon in North America.
Watch a live webcast of the 8th Annual Vans Bowl-A-Rama Bondi this Friday, February 24 at 3:00 pm (PST)/6:00 pm (EST) in the States at www.vans.com/bowlarama to see the world’s best skateboarders battle it out for an unprecedented $80,000 AUD (more than $85,000 USD) at Australia’s infamous Bondi Beach. . . Viewers can also watch the event with the free, multi-platform Vans Live 2.0 app, available for download now on iTunes for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and for Android devices at Android Market place.
Skaters scheduled to compete include: Pedro Barros, Bucky Lasek, Anthony Furlong, Renton Millar, Kevin Kowlaski, Sky Siljeg, Curren Caples, Rune Glifberg, Rion Linderman, Alex Perelson, Omar Hassen, and more plus Masters skaters Steve Caballero, Jeff Grosso, Sasha Steinhorst and Eddie Elguera.
THIS Los Angeles is opening their These Friends Three show tonight, Friday February 24, 2012 from 7 to 10 PM. The show features 100 pieces from 100 artists. Here are some of our friends who are included in the show:
Arlie Carstens, Chris Pastras, Cole Barash, Don Pendleton, Geoff McFetridge, Jared Eberhardt, and Natas Kaupas.
Billy Marks and Mike Vallely sit down with Erica Yary and Rob Brink at the Weekend Buzz table to talk balls. Billy Marks balls, Chet Childress balls, and Mike V.’s “old man balls. . . that really hang long and sway and shit.” If that doesn’t make you want to watch this clip we don’t know what will.
The world famous Carlsbad Gap was torn down yesterday Thursday, February 23, 2012 to make room for renovations on the campus of Carlsbad High School in Carlsbad, California. We can still see Kris Markovich hitting that thing in our mind’s eye. It’s nice to see that workers showed respect and used a monster-sized excavator to remove the historic gap because it wasn’t going down easy. Follow the jump for the ON Video history Bridging The Gap. [click to continue…]
Timothy Robert Baker, a 24-year-old snowboarder from Salt Lake City, Utah died Thursday, February 23, 2012 after being buried in an avalanche in Dutch Canyon area just outside the boundaries of The Canyons ski resort, according to a story in the Salt Lake City Tribune.
Baker was riding his snowboard . . . near the Ninety-Nine 90 Express lift when he triggered the avalanche at about 3 p.m., said Summit County sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Bridge. . . “His friends were on the side watching him go across the mountain,” Bridge said. . . The snow slab started to shift underneath a cliff where unstable snow pellets had pooled, according to the Utah Avalanche Center. Baker was swept down the mountain into Dutch Draw, a basin to the southeast of the resort.
According to the story neither Baker nor his friends were equipped with avalanche transceivers. Our thoughts are with Baker’s family and friends.
We’re not going to say much about this Polar Skate Co. promo video from Klez Motion Pictures International other than we’re always suckers for a Devo song. . .
This video was apparently designed to show off the StreetStik electric off-road skateboard, but it’s really all about sad little Esther — a girl forced to ride an electric skateboard round and round in a park wearing only a pink bikini.
Over the years Newport Beach, California has become a breeding ground for jacked up rolling toys of all kinds. Time to add the Surf Skate to the list. It’s a skateboard with a 360 degree rotational front truck set up that reportedly allows skateboarders to ride just like surfers. Okay. . .
