If you want to know how the 10th Annual Hot Dawgs & Handrails at Bear Mountain went down and how Tommy Gesme won then whole thing, then check out Mary Walsh’s story on Snowboardermag.com. It’s good.
[Link: Snowboarder Mag]
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If you didn’t make it to Fallen Footwear’s Road Less Traveled premiere last weekend, don’t worry. Erica Yary and the Ride Channel was there to do it for you. And, chances are, she’s a little better a talking to all the right people than you are. She’s definitely better at it than we are.
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Purdue University nuclear engineering student Joe Carabetta is one of growing number of Americans who apparently feel that exerting any physical power whatsoever to move his body through space is simply too hard. Why exercise when you can let the magic of electricity do the work for you? That may be one of the unstated reasons he and a friend created the Kickr electric skateboard, according to a story in USA Today.
Kickr is a modular skateboard attachment that has transformed Carabetta’s Original carving longboard into an electric board that can reach speeds up to 25 mph. The product name also is the name of the company. . . When you step on a custom throttle pad, the device sends a signal to the motor that spins the wheel. The motor assembly employs a truck axle to connect to the skateboard. The device can adjust to multiple wheel sizes.
Carabetta and his partner think they can sell the motors for $400 a piece and that’s much cheaper than a little rascal.
[Link: USA Today]
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This whole “world’s largest” thing seems to be getting a little out of control. Now, an Australian developer named Brad Shaw is reportedly building a skatepark in Guangzhou, China that will be the largest in the world, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The 17,000 square metro park – about as big as four football fields – is being built on the grounds of a conglomerate of universities, the Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre, in the extreme sports area. . . It’s likely demand for the park’s facilities – which are free to use – will be high. The mega centre is home to 10 universities, more than 160,000 students and 20,000 staff, many of which are in walking distance of the facility.
Shaw’s company is called Sk8scapes, and from the looks of the parks he’s built in the past, this new one is a seriously ambitious leap. But hey, why not go big in China? They are manufacturing the entire world.
[Link: Sydney Morning Herald]
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Jupiter, Florida surfer Brandon Dugan didn’t let a little shark bite on his left arm slow him down, according to a story on WPTV.com. Nope. He just rolled with it and didn’t even need help from rescuers.
When they arrived, Brandon Dugan was out of the water with lacerations on his left arm. One of his friends drove him to get stitches and by the afternoon was back to work at Locals Surf Shop in Jupiter.
Seems like sharks a just a nuisance in Florida.
[Link: WPTV.com]
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Chris Mathis has been bumped up to official AM from the WRLD flow team and from the looks of this little edit it’s about time.
[Link: World Industries]
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This little edit of the “S-Walker Board” it packed up to the windows with wrong. List them out in the comments if you don’t have anything else planned for the weekend. . .
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Fifty-year-old skateboarder Bernard B. Hamilton was killed late Thursday night September 19, 2013 in Tannersville, New York after rolling down a hill through an intersection and directly into the path of a New York State Trooper’s cruiser, according to a story in the Times Union.
State Police said Hamilton was riding a skateboard in Hill Road when he rolled into the intersection with Route 23A and the path of a trooper’s car, which was westbound on Route 23A. . . Hamilton was declared dead at the scene.
The accident happened at 11:38 PM. No other information was released. Our thoughts are with Hamilton’s family and friends.
[Link: Times Union]
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To be honest, we’ve recently lacked the rigor required to stay up-to-date on the constantly changing story of Billabong debt, its pending demise, and who they’re going to depend on to save them. The most recent news is that company has landed a refinancing deal with Centerbridge Partners and Oaktree Capital (brave investors) to the tune of $386 million, according to a story in The Australian.
Private equity firm, Altamont Capital Partners, which only months earlier had agreed to recapitalize the group, has been shown the door. . . While Centerbridge and Oaktree, and their affiliates, have not bid to buy the business outright, the consortium will emerge from the deal, if approved by shareholders, with significant control. . . In addition to controlling most of the company’s senior debt, an accompanying $135m equity placement will see it owning up to 40.8 per cent of Billabong’s shares. It will also have the right to install three representatives on Billabong’s board and has brought a new chief executive to the table.
Oh, and Billabong is reportedly completely out of Nixon. That’s likely old news to you, but let us remind you of that rigor thing. Click the link of the rest of the story. Or, if you want to know what Jeff Harbaugh things about it, click here.
[Link: The Australian]
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If it’s fall then that means it time for the 10th Annual Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails event at Southern California’s Bear Mountain. Forty of the world’s top rail slayers will congregate in Big Bear, California on Saturday September 21, 2013 to help kick off the 2013-14 winter season.
The men’s first place winner will be awarded $10,000 and the women’s first place will take home $1,000. The jibber with the best trick will take home $500. Both men and women’s first place finishers and the best trick winner will be presented with one-of-a-kind, customized iPad Minis, which will serve as their digital trophy. Provided courtesy of Fusion of Ideas, the iPad Minis will display the digital checks and head shots of winners. These winners will also take home go-pro cameras customized by Fusion of Ideas.
The event is free to the public. Gates open at 9 AM and the comp starts at 2 PM. Bear Mountain is located at 43101 Goldmine Drive
Big Bear Lake, California. Check out our photos from the 2011 event click here to see a little about what you have to look forward to tomorrow. For the official word from Bear Mountain follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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